ESMA Approves ICE Trade Vault and CME For three weeks commodities participants were left in the cold (see previous post). Today, ESMA has closed that gap and officially approved the remaining two applicants, ICE Trade Vault and CME. With everyone running to hit the February 12th deadline, Commodities participants were left in a holding pattern, […]
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ESMA and EMIR Regulation Approvals? In case you did not already know, last week the European regulatory authority ESMA (European Securities and Markets Authority) approved 4 of the 6 applicants as official Trade Repositories (TR’s) for derivatives trade reporting under EMIR regulations. We do expect the remaining two to be approved shortly…more on that below.
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StandardiZation, StandardiSation. Why can’t we all just agree??? With the Dodd-Frank SDR reporting inching slow ahead to full steam in the US, how have we fared thus far? Truthfully? Not so well! Why? Well one does not need to go any further than to take a peek at what’s on the CFTC’s mind. And what
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End-User Dodd-Frank Updates and Checklist In Texas it’s illegal to graffiti someone’s cow. Seriously, you can’t make this stuff up. So at some point someone in Texas took branding a bit too far. And a legislature got into a knot and viola we have a law. Speaking of fun laws, Dodd-Frank is upon us. Here
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The Year of the Snake…and Trade Break I’m not big on New Year resolutions or on predictions. But in the case of Dodd-Frank and EMIR in Europe it’s hard to resist. The die has been cast and SDRs are a real thing now. Setting aside for the moment the master strokes about what DF and
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The 2013 Trading Landscape Remember the 2007 price manipulation case? There was an interesting clash between price publishers, alleged manipulative traders, and the CFTC. It kind of turned into a debacle where rogue traders were allegedly submitting false prices to the price publishers. The CFTC in trying to police the manipulation dropped a subpoena on
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The CFTC issued some breaks by laying out a series of Dodd Frank “No-Action” letters. The biggies: CFTC issued a No-Action letter to prevent firms from crossing into Swaps Dealer status. The rule states that any firm doing more than $25 Million in business with “Special Entities” such as a Federal, State or Local utility
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Last week ICE announced that it is registering its products as Futures. ICE has always traded “look alike” swaps that acted and behaved just like futures. As look-alike contracts, ICE was able to stay out of the Commodity Exchange Act and the CFTC. Dodd Frank changed all of that. So ICE seems to have adopted
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Dodd Frank | Trade Vault and DTCC “Gotchas” The compliance deadlines are looming. Some of the bigger Gotchas that keep coming up: Data Is Not In Our Trading System. The CFTC wants (XYZ Data Point). We don’t have that in our trading system! Case in Point: Option Expiration Time Zone. Obscure, yes. So much so
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It’s been a while since we’ve posted. And there is a reason for that. Dodd-Frank is finally coming to town. With the final rule for Market Classification hitting the Fed Reg on May 23d, and the final Swaps Definition hitting the deck today…. the clock has started ticking. In the commodities business it is shaping
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