The Wall Street Journal has a great featured piece today on the importance of the sales trader, which is something we at Greenwich have been…
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Back in October I wrote about the impact of an impeding Greek default on the CDS market. I concluded that in the shadow of Dodd-Frank,…
If Congress really had its way (well, the Democrats anyway) than all swaps would have been forced to look and trade like futures. If you’re…
It seemed like the CFTC’s meeting yesterday (Dec 12th) would be a big one; we’d find out the size of a block trade and in…
The slow regulatory process has its first known victim. As soon as Dodd-Frank made swap execution facilities official, entrepeurial swaps traders everywhere thought they better…
This story was posted last week, and although its a bit odd to repost the story that quoted Kevin on the Street, I thought the…
FX swaps are exempt from new derivatives regulations in the US. Not really a surprise. This language was in an earlier version of Dodd-Frank and…
Execution and clearing mandates for OTC derivative trades are still nearly a year a way by my estimates, but the Street is already getting ready.…