Counterparty risk
Spotlight on: Mike Harris, Campbell & Company
The director of trading at commodity trading adviser Campbell & Company talks to Miriam Siers about the current trading environment and the challenges in the market for buy-side...
Absence of a standard approach is stifling attempts to value termination clauses, dealers complain
Christian Held, head of corporate treasury at pharmaceutical giant Bayer, threatened to move jobs abroad unless the European Commission “lets...
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UBS: FX CCPs will be “too big to fail”
Foreign exchange central counterparties (CCPs) will automatically be “too big to fail” because the consequences of failure are too terrible, according to Huw Evans, managing director and chief operating officer of FX at UBS.
ICICI clears and settles first gold contract on SMX
Singapore Mercantile Exchange (SMX) said the Singapore branch of India’s ICICI Bank began clearing and settling trade activities for SMX with its first trade cleared on December 30, 2010 for the SMX Singapore-deliverable gold futures contract....
Isda pushes back on CCP ownership caps
US derivatives industry lobbyists are pushing back at proposals by the US government to resurrect and expand the Lynch amendment, which would have imposed limits on dealer ownership of derivatives clearing houses.
HKEx moves to introduce margins for cash clearing members
HKEx plans to beef up its risk management following the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 by introducing margin rules and seeking more funds from cash clearing members. The move would bring cash clearing more in line with existing...
CFTC proposal sparks scrap over CCP membership
CFTC proposes a $50 million cap on minimum capital requirements set by CCPs for clearing membership
A call for closure
Indications of the multiplicity of challenges that central clearing will introduce to the forex markets came thick and fast at the FX Week Europe congress in London last Tuesday (November 16).
Asia Risk Congress 2010: Asian banks prepare for national clearing houses
Several Asian nations could compel their banks to clear swaps in-country - others seek to join foreign CCPs on special terms
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