Swaps

Today’s action marks the last significant step in adopting rules for transparency in security-based swap transactions. Next in line will be to finalize the remaining ...

One of the greatest lessons we learned during the financial crisis was that both regulators and the public did not understand the risks posed by ...

While this is another step toward completing the rules for security-based swaps, we have yet to finish the work set for us six years ago ...

Because Barclays Bank self-reported and cooperated with the CFTC over filing inaccurate large trader reports for nearly one year, its settlement resulting in a $560,000 ...

Barclays submitted LTRs with incorrect position information and Commodity Reference Price indicators for certain types of transactions. Subsequently in 2014, Barclays submitted certain LTRs containing ...

IA Watch has eyed a new request for information from the SEC that seeks a “portfolio analysis tool” to help the agency and OCIE “to ...

Besides being the first day of summer, last Tuesday also marked the day certain interest rate derivatives were to be cleared under the European Market ...

As I have said before, governance is not a topic that is unique to the futures or swaps markets. Instead, ideas for improving culture and ...

Dodd-Frank split the baby when it came to regulators overseeing swaps. The SEC would supervise security-based swaps (SBS) and the CFTC all others. That decision ...

Fixed-to-floating interest rate swaps denominated in nine additional currencies or having certain termination dates would be added to the CFTC’s clearing requirements under a new ...