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The Increased Role For Post-Trade Services
In a world where it’s becoming almost as important what happens after a trade is completed as when the trade itself happens, the role of the post-trade service provider is crucial to the flow of...
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Robert Merton on Financial Innovation and Retirement
Much of the world continues to face economic challenges, and financial innovation will be “essential” to solving them, according to Nobel laureate and MIT Sloane School of Management professor Robert...
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Even Stephen Colbert is covering the drought. Bruce Babcock, a professor of agricultural economics at Iowa State University, made an appearance on the Colbert Report to discuss U.S. agriculture...
View ArticleWeekly Roundup: A look at the Housing Market, Unemployment, and the Drought
CNNMoney featured a survey this week where several economists suggest the U.S. housing market has finally turned a corner. Housing expert Robert Shiller suggested a couple of weeks ago that may not be...
View ArticleWeekly Roundup: Winter Drought, Dodd-Frank Rules and The Debt Ceiling
Economic reports and what happens (or doesn’t happen) in Washington continues to play a big role in the behavior of financial markets, while drought conditions continue to affect U.S. agriculture even...
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Swaps Regulation Still Makes Sense
A version of this post originally appeared as an op-ed in Politico. When Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Act in response to the 2008 financial crisis, its primary goals were to (1) reduce systemic...
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How Energy Markets are Responding to Regulation
If the big story in 2012 was the writing by governments of new rules on the conduct of markets, we can expect that the remainder of 2013 will tell us how the marketplace responded to the challenge of...
View ArticleWeekly Roundup: Clearing, U.S. Economy and Biofuel
We just returned from this week’s Futures Industry Association conference in Boca Raton, Fla. , where there was no shortage of discussion about the Dodd-Frank clearing mandate, something FIA President...
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Phase Two of Swaps Clearing for Dodd-Frank is Only Weeks Away
New global rules for OTC derivatives have been implemented in the US and are imminent in Europe that will have significant long-term implications for how hedge funds, asset managers and regional...
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Monday Outlook: OTC Clearing and QE Tapering
The shift to mandatory clearing for over-the-counter transactions has included several significant dates on the way to full compliance for buyside customers in swaps markets. Today is one of the...
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View from Switzerland: 3 Things to Watch from Burgenstock
Today, I will be joining several of my colleagues and many more industry peers in Geneva, Switzerland as we gather for this year’s SFOA Burgenstock conference, a global forum on derivatives markets...
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Video: Gary Gensler Highlights Transparency in Swaps
At the Global Financial Leadership Conference (GFLC) in November, outgoing CFTC Chairman Gary Gensler spoke to attendees for 30 minutes about the transparency that has come to financial markets,...
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The Policy Hurdles Facing Commodity Markets
For the past 15 months, commodity markets have negotiated the push and pull of global economics, with increased production in the West clashing with declining demand in China. Crude oil has seen...
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