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- OTC Derivatives Rules Backed By Congress Panel
- By Kevin Drawbaugh and Charles Abbott WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A key U.S. congressional committee approved new rules for the largely unpoliced $450-trillion derivatives market on Thursday in a win for the Obama administration. The House of Representatives Financial Services Committee voted 43-26, largely on party lines, in favor of the...
- News items 2009-10-15
- Anyone up for OTC Derivatives Regulation?
- This paper outlines the need for regulating the derivatives market. Several factors account for the continued call for regulation of the over-the-counter OTC derivatives market. An analysis of debt and derivatives market is illustrated. The U.S. House and Senate are working on OTC derivatives market regulation that would create an...
- White papers 2002-05-01
- The Structure of OTC Derivatives Markets
- Derivatives are traded in two kinds of markets: exchanges and OTC markets. This brief primer describes the structure of those OTC Derivatives markets and explains how they might be viewed under the Commodity Exchange Act. The purpose of this primer is to clarify some of the key characteristics of the...
- White papers 2002-10-24
- Four Opinions on OTC Derivatives
- Susan M. Mangiero submits: According to the Bank for International Settlements ("BIS"), the global market size for over-the-counter ("OTC") derivatives, as of June 2008, exceeded $683 trillion yes trillion or $683,725 billion. (These numbers reflect notional amounts outstanding.) Notably, an expanded use of interest rate swaps helped to push...
- External links 2008-12-14
- Senators Push OTC Derivatives Legislation to Avoid Enron
- Senators Push OTC Derivatives Legislation to Avoid Enron Repeat Senators Push OTC Derivatives Legislation to Avoid Enron Repeat
- Research articles 2002-02-15
- The Global Market for OTC Derivatives: An Analysis of Dealer Holdings
- This paper provides a descriptive examination of the trading activities of one of the most important intermediaries in global financial markets - the OTC derivatives dealer. These dealers play a central role in the provision of derivative products and in the intermediation of market risks faced by financial and non-financial...
- White papers 2004-02-11
- Special Supplement: OTC derivatives - Buy-side sees the upside of automation.
- Byline: Virginie O'Shea There can be no doubt that the sell-side is well ahead of the buy-side when it comes to establishing straight-through processing STP in the area of over-the-counter OTC derivatives. To a large extent this is thanks to the US Federal Reserve...
- Research articles 2008-03-01
- Communicator Inc. and DTCC Deriv/SERV Create Link to Streamline OTC Derivatives Confirmation Process
- NEW YORK -- Communicator Inc. and the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation DTCC announced today that they are forming a link to help centralize post-trade processing for OTC derivatives trade confirmation for end user firms that are using both services. This effort, which will provide, among other things, a single...
- Research articles 2005-06-27
- OTC Derivatives Challenge
- The growth in the use of over-the-counter OTC derivatives on the buy side has thrown up a number of challenges to those firms using such instruments, not least of which involve accurate valuations and efficient processing. This paper argues that it's high time that technologists start addressing these challenges by...
- White papers 2005-08-01
- IXIS CIB Selects DataSynapse for Grid; DataSynapse GridServer® Deployed Across IXIS CIB Fixed Income and OTC Derivatives Business Lines
- PARIS & NEW YORK -- DataSynapse, the fastest-growing provider of grid computing solutions for the virtual enterprise, has deployed its flagship GridServerR software across IXIS Corporate & Investment Bank's fixed income and OTC derivatives operations. The software optimizes application performance and resource utilization at the bank, guaranteeing higher service levels...
- Research articles 2005-09-20
- Geithner Sees Case For Some Derivatives Exemptions
- By Glenn Somerville and Charles AbbottWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Wednesday there was a good case to let some firms use derivatives with little scrutiny for business purposes, but that most trading should face stiffer rules.Renewing a push to tighten regulation of over-the-counter derivatives, Geithner...
- News items 2009-12-02
- How Do Bank Derivatives Trading Operations Work
- In many textbooks, when one reads about derivatives, the authors commence their discussion of the derivatives markets with a focus upon the listed exchanges, most often the Chicago exchanges. However, the development of the over-the-counter OTC derivatives markets is more interesting from the perspective of the derivatives dealer for their...
- White papers
- How Do Bank Derivatives Trading Operations Work?
- However, the development of the over-the-counter OTC derivatives markets is more interesting from the perspective of the derivatives dealer for their comprehensiveness and innovation. Listed markets deal only in plain vanilla options with rigidly defined contract specifications and a limited number of maturities. The OTC markets are characterized literally by...
- White papers
- UNREGULATED OTC DERIVATIVES MARKETS INVITED ABUSES INSIDE ENRON AS WELL
- The unrestrained use of derivatives did as much harm inside Enron Corp. (OTC Bulletin Board: ENRQ) as in the Houston diversified energy supplier's now infamous special purpose entities SPEs, a University of San Diego law professor told Congress. The unrestrained use of derivatives did as much harm inside...
- Research articles 2002-02-04
- Let's talk. (SEC solicits comments on how to treat over-the-counter derivatives-related credit risk) (International News) (Brief Article)
- For the first time ever, the Securities and Exchange Commission SEC is asking for comments on how to treat credit risk associated with over-the-counter OTC derivatives, especially those long-term. For the first time ever, the Securities and Exchange Commission SEC is asking for comments on how...
- Research articles 1993-07-01
- Thomson TradeWeb and SwapsWire Announce Integration Facilitating Real-Time Confirmation of Interest Rate OTC Derivative Transactions.
- LONDON and JERSEY CITY, New Jersey, March 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Thomson TradeWeb, the leading online marketplace for fixed income securities and OTC derivatives, and a unit of The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC, TSX: TOC), today announced a landmark inte LONDON and JERSEY CITY, New Jersey, March...
- Research articles 2006-03-01
- CHARTVIEW: OTC GROWTH SLOWS.(over-the-counter markets)(Brief Article)
- The tide may be turning in the institutional flight to OTC markets at the expense of derivatives exchanges. The explosive growth in OTC derivatives trading slowed in the second half of 2000 to a rate equal to that of exchange-traded derivaties, the Bank for International Settlements...
- Research articles 2001-07-01
- Conference hails mature OTC market.
- Byline: Natasha de Teran The annual over-the-counter OTC derivatives conference held this month in Chicago was dominated by self-congratulation on the industry's improved risk management, increased automation and reduced derivatives-related counterparty credit exposure.Against a backdrop of surging volumes in the OTC markets and...
- Research articles 2004-04-11
- Special Supplement: Strategies For Change - At Work With Derivatives - There Are Two Ways To Grow A Derivatives Business: Commit Capital, Or Go For Partnership, Explains Denis McHugh.
- The derivatives sector is one of the fastest growing segments of the financial industry. According to the Bank for International Settlements BIS, the combined value of trading in exchange-listed interest rate, equity index and currency contracts had risen to be worth over $333 trillion during the...
- Research articles 2005-10-01
- TowerGroup: OTC Derivatives Market Must Move Toward Electronification to Keep Regulators at Bay
- NEEDHAM, Mass. -- The operational processes that support the both lucrative and risky asset class of OTC (over-the-counter) derivatives are opaque and inefficient - a situation unacceptable to both dealers and the Fed. New research from TowerGroup explores the pressure mounting on the industry to move toward electronification as trade...
- Research articles 2008-06-10
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