SEF registrations to date
With less than a month to go till the closing date for SEF registration (2nd October), we have another two platforms, both Inter-Dealer Brokers (IDBs) Tullet-Prebon and ICAP submitting their SEF...
View Article17 SEFs now registered whilst enforcement of rules delayed of 1month
The CFTC continues to push through the remaining few SEFs ahead of the 2nd October deadline, the number of SEFs gaining temporary SEF Status has now risen to 17. With the only major application still...
View ArticleSEF volumes according to Kevin
Over at Kevinonthestreet, Kevin McPartland has a very good post on why SEFs volumes really don’t matter at this stage. Some key points from his post are: Little incentive from largest buy and sell side...
View ArticleMAT request to CFTC
Last Friday, Javelin one of the 18 newly registered SEFs, become the first SEF to apply to the CFTC for determination of products to be Made Available to Trade. This mean that the CFTC has up to 90...
View ArticleTradeWeb SEF is 3rd to submit MAT List
TradeWeb TW SEF joins Javelin and TrueEX in submitting the list of swaps they wish to Make Available to Trade (MAT). Last week, Javelin submitted a long list of MAT Swaps, whilst TrueEX submitted a...
View ArticleWhat next after SEFs?
Just finished listing to an interesting webcast on Global OTC market reforms, and where next after the US and SEFs? Celent analyst Anshuman Jaswal, gave overview of market, SEF volumes to date, and...
View ArticleEuropean Market Liquidity Conference – thoughts and comments
Last week I attended the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) 9th annual European Market Liquidity Conference. As always with AFME, there had some thoughtful speakers and topical panel...
View ArticleNew investment banking models: ‘capital-lite’, ‘agency’ and ‘client-clearing’
Regulation is driving change in capital market structure, and as highlighted in the future of investment banking, banks continue to move towards a ‘capital-lite’ business model, as they seek to...
View ArticleIncentives for Central Clearing – paper by BIS
The Bank of International Settlements (BIS) has released an interesting research paper which looks at the incentives for various market participants to centrally clear bilateral OTC derivative trades....
View ArticleESMA provides clearing exemption for NDFs (for now)
Back in October 14, European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published a consultation paper on the mandatory clearing of swaps and Non-Deliverable Forwards (NDFs). At the time it was thought...
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