CME Group
People moves: Jain joins Cantor
FCA hires Foulger; new CRO for HSBC; Goldman's senior shake-up; equities chief for Credit Suisse
People: Deutsche’s Leake heads to Goldman
Gill departs CME; Mizuho bolsters quant ranks
OTC market resisting swap futures threat
Swap futures yet to break out, but backers see margin, accounting and Citadel as tailwinds
‘Wrong type of liquidity’ spells trouble for energy hedges
Cyclical lull conceals structural shift as liquidity becomes shorter-dated and more flighty
People: CME hires new energy head for Asia-Pacific
Plus: Commonwealth Bank's new commods hire; SocGen's Ricke moves to UK; Icap's Apac appointment
CCP default risks not correlated, CFTC finds
Timothy Massad: stress tests reveal “quite a bit of diversification” in CCP exposures
Hedge fund Citadel hires nat gas chief from Hartree
Other people moves at Mercuria, CME, Danske, CBA, Freepoint, Uniper and Statkraft
Huge Brexit margin calls stoke intra-day funding fears
Calls on June 24 may have topped $40 billion; critics urge regulators to review episode
FSOC focuses on non-cleared trades in buy-side Sifi debate
CFTC chairman sees ‘very important distinction’ in cleared versus uncleared trades
CCPs defend direct clearing models for the buy side
FCMs unsure if direct margin posting will deliver capital savings
Asset managers lead the charge for voluntary clearing
Voluntary clearing volumes jump 80% as non-cleared margin rules take effect
Margin rules lead to NDF clearing surge
Banks look to finally clear forex products, but options remain a challenge
Plastics hedging rising amid US chemical industry boom
Several obstacles limiting potential growth, say plastics market participants
People: Barclays loses veteran OTC clearing head Kahn
Barclays loses Kahn, gains JP Morgan's Portney; NIBC hires new CRO; Nomura finds new EM head; and more
Nasdaq energy futures face questions over ‘artificial’ volume
One year on, NFX faces uphill battle to draw commercial hedgers
People: Trio of senior execs depart UBS investment bank
UBS reshuffle; Icap chief exec departs; Green leaves Lloyds for Scotiabank
Exchanges spar with CFTC over hedge exemptions
Latest tweaks to position limits rule draw ire of CME and Ice
Shanghai to be first CCP to clear forex options
New service to debut in August, but liquidity risk has stalled other CCPs
CCPs and Brexit: don’t forget the rest of the world
Losing equivalence with the US could be more serious than arguments over the location of euro clearing
CME warns some fintechs ‘miss the point’ in clearing
IDX panellists see reduced operational role for CCPs that will instead act as trusted oracles
Canada waits on US, EU to mandate CAD swaps clearing
Regulatory arbitrage fears stall clearing mandate for CAD swaps in Canada
Nine years later, RMBS woes still haunt banks
Megan van Ooyen from SAS rounds up the top five operational risk losses for April 2016
Aussie market clearing well ahead of April mandate
Largest onshore derivatives dealers already caught by US and European rules
CFTC automated trading proposal worries energy firms
Companies surprised to learn they may need to register as algorithmic traders