CME Group
Credit Risk USA: Direct buy-side clearing 'not feasible'
Added cost and mutualised risk will discourage direct clearing participation, panel concludes
Initiatives promote commodity derivatives in Brazil
Seeds of change
White House seeks tools to fight ‘excessive’ oil speculation
On Tuesday, US President Barack Obama launched a new initiative aimed at curbing speculation in energy markets, arguing that it would help ease the pain of high gasoline prices. He urged Congress to give the US Commodities Futures Trading Commission …
Despite MF Global, firms face weaker OTC safeguards
Segregated thinking
Ice to compete with CME and LCH.Clearnet on FX clearing
Competition in forex clearing intensifies as LCH.Clearnet receives regulatory approval and Ice explains how its rival offering will differentiate itself
CCPs need to provide margin efficiency, says industry panel
Central clearing will place a huge burden on end-users, forcing CCPs to consider how best to create operational and margin efficiencies
CME to launch portfolio margining on interest rate swaps and futures
Dealers will be able to cross-margin interest rate swaps, and eurodollar and Treasury futures, from May
Despite MF Global, firms face weaker OTC safeguards
Segregated thinking
Wells Fargo: late entrant to the OTC clearing race
A credible competitor
EC right to block Deutsche Börse-NYSE Euronext deal – Icap's Spencer
Allowing the German and US exchanges to merge would have created a monopoly in European futures markets, says Icap’s chief executive – who also criticises CME Group's dominance of US futures
Exchange of the year: NYSE Liffe US
Risk awards 2012
Clearing house of the year: LCH.Clearnet
Risk awards 2012
Derivatives law firm of the year: Allen & Overy
Risk awards 2012
Interview: CME Group
New directions
Contingent capital solutions mooted for CCPs
Default insurance has been explored by at least one clearing house, but capital markets solutions may be a better way to supplement existing safeguards, say some participants
Forex infrastructure providers testing for eurozone worst-case scenario
Panellists at FX Week Europe discuss the implications for the forex market of a possible exit of one or more eurozone members from the single currency
Profile: CME Group's Mike Prokop
With the use of some helpful props, CME Group’s Mike Prokop talks Pauline McCallion through a career spanning more than a quarter of a century in the world of energy trading
Despite hurdles, clearers map out forex ambitions
Clearing a way for forex
CFTC’s Chilton: lessons learnt from MF Global
MF Global “new poster child for the need for thoughtful regulation" that must be "proactive, nimble, quick", says CFTC’s Chilton
Technology advances at energy exchanges and trading platforms
Powering forwards
Energy Risk Trading positions – November 2011
Energy Risk catches up with the latest appointments, promotions and departures in global commodity markets
Despite hurdles, clearers map out forex ambitions
Clearing hurdles
Margin minutiae at issue in Jefferies v IDCG suit
Mire in margin minutiae