Dodd-Frank Act

Sapient Connects CMRS Platform to DTCC

Sapient Global Markets has created a direct link between its compliance management and reporting system (CMRS) and the Depository Trust & Clearing Corp.'s (DTCC’s) Swap Data Repository (SDR).

ISITC Groups Drafting MBS, Portfolio Value Guidelines

ISITC working groups plan to collaborate with Sifma to meet a June deadline on mortgage-backed securities margin requirements, and to revisit total portfolio value standards. ISITC as a whole will continue work begun last year on the legal entity…

Gensler Rebuffs Regulatory Reach Critics in FIA Keynote

US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) chairman Gary Gensler has defended elements of the Dodd-Frank Act over perceived extra-territoriality, in his keynote address to the Futures Industry Association's (FIA) annual conference in Boca Raton,…

SEF Rule Delays Present Issues and Opportunities

Panelists at the 2013 FIX Protocol Limited (FPL) EMEA Trading Conference in London yesterday said that the delays over finalized rules for Swap Execution Facilities (SEFs) in the US are leading to over development on platforms and an uncertain regional…

ICAP Exec: Europe Can Align OTFs with SEFs

Incoming regulation in the European Union that reforms over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives trading has the opportunity to sync up with analogous US legislation, an executive from interdealer broker ICAP said yesterday at FIX Protocol Limited's 2013 EMEA…

Capco Introduces 'Living Wills' Platform

Known officially as resolution plans, living wills for financial institutions are mandated by Dodd-Frank to provide rapid and orderly deconstruction of institutions in event of distress or bankruptcy.

With OTC Reform, Conception and Consolidation Rule

I was originally going to start this column with the words ‘it feels like we’ve been talking about derivatives reform for years’, until I realized that’s exactly what we’ve been doing. There’s a sense of forward motion now, at least, with the first…

Optimize: The Whens and the Whys

Collateral optimization systems are coming into vogue as a means of handling some of the obligations of Dodd–Frank and EMIR. In part one of a two-part feature, Jake Thomases examines exactly what about the current market is prompting the adoption, and…

MIK, ParkRiver Team on New Regulatory Requirements

MIK Fund Solutions and ParkRiver Fund Solutions are partnering to deliver a solution that will address new regulatory requirements for Forms CPO-PQR and CTA-PR. This product will be delivered alongside their already launched Form PF solution.

OTC Participants Self-Report a Lack of Readiness

A survey by London-based consultancy Rule Financial has quantified, albeit in an unscientific way, what a feature for the November issue of Waters revealed anecdotally: Financial institutions are unprepared for over-the-counter derivatives (OTC) reform…

OTC Participants Self-Report a Lack of Readiness

A survey by London-based consultancy Rule Financial has quantified, albeit in an unscientific way, what a feature for the November issue of Waters revealed anecdotally: Financial institutions are unprepared for over-the-counter derivatives (OTC) reform…

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