uncleared derivatives Tag

POINT-COUNTERPOINT: THE REPEAL OF DODD-FRANK SECTION 716 Section 716, the "push out" rule, of the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 was repealed as part of (read as: buried deep into) the budget bill late last year. There seems to be confusion as to what the repeal means....

08 January, 2015

Proposed Margin Rules Last month, US Banking Regulators presented a new proposal for the collection, calculation, and segregation of margin for bilateral derivatives. The new US proposals are quite different from their original 2011 proposal, in light of the BCBS/IOSCO issuance of their 2013 final policy framework on...

03 October, 2014

This article speaks about reducing notional by offsetting swaps by using compression.  The success we've seen and expect to see as counterparties phase-in to CCP clearing has been a testament to firms working together to get things done. Collapsing Swaps Positions Compression has proven an enormously successful...

16 June, 2013