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Kathleen Tyson-Quah - Granularity Ltd - London | 30/06/2012 | 2404 views

The ESMA OTC Derivatives End User Carve Out

ESMA has released a Consultation Paper on the draft technical standards for trade repositories, OTC clearing and CCPs. Discussion of non-financial counterparty exclusions begins on page 14. OTC contracts that protect non-financial counterparties against risks "directly related to their commercial activities and treasury financing activities" are ... Tags: Trade execution

Kathleen Tyson-Quah - Granularity Ltd - London | 19/06/2012 | 1684 views

Hurtling Towards Harmonisation

I spent most of yesterday reading the Financial Stability Board's OTC Derivatives Markets Reforms Third Progress Report on Implementation. Thrilling stuff if you were desperately awaiting your next installment of regulatory waffle on harmonisation of global regulation and infrastructure for derivatives. What struck me most powerfully about this re... Tags: Trade execution

Gary Wright - BISS Research - London | 15/06/2012 | 1962 views

The Importance of T2S

Some people have doubted the importance and value of T2S and have rightly questioned the cost of building the system against the value it will provide. Indeed the UK is still not joining despite a growing list of countries CSDs signing up. Is the right for the UK? What is the long term benefit of T2S? Oddly the crisis in the Eurozone and the possi...

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