Swaps
Barclays taps blockchain for equity swaps, options, swaptions
Regulatory capital savings offered by instant settlement of smart contracts on distributed ledgers
Mac swaps, swap futures face new tax threat
Isda urges US tax officials to postpone rule treating certain payments as loans
Liability-side pricing of swaps
Wujiang Lou presents a framework to compute recursive CVA and FVA via Monte Carlo simulation
Accounting puts brake on move to daily settled swaps
New margin approach threatens hedge accounting status, could hurt effectiveness
CFTC takes steps to clean up ‘garbage’ swaps data
Market participants frustrated at attempts to further standardise swaps in data reporting proposals
US regulators told to expect VM status change
Fed, FDIC and OCC told daily settlement of swaps will cut required capital
Dealers warn of hit to Asia from short margin transfer times
Japanese firms and Isda call for T+3 for cross-border uncleared swap trades
US Treasury calls for more transparency in cash markets
Officials seek better data "to understand the dynamics of these markets"
Buy side held back by confusion on cross-trading swaps
CFTC's swap trading rules hamper internalisation, lawyers say
Collateral option valuation made easy
Vladimir Sankovich and Qinghua Zhu develop a method to value cheapest-to-deliver option embedded in CSAs
Italian swaps scrap grips Europe
Dexia Crediop wins right to appeal against Italian city of Prato over €6.5 million swap claim
CFTC’s Massad woos energy firms with Dodd-Frank fixes
Agency chief sidesteps question over whether Gensler rushed rules
Highlights from Isda's 2015 AGM
Risk.net's coverage of Isda's 30th annual general meeting
Lehman vs Moore in swaps safe harbour showdown
Lawyers cool on Lehman's chances, but warn victory would harm swaps market
Primes re-pricing and exiting their tails
Start-ups struggling to establish multiple PB relationships
Pricing and hedging variance swaps on a swap rate
A pricing tool for fixed-income volatility products is introduced
Shanghai launches renminbi derivatives clearing
CNY swaps and forwards can be cleared from November on SCH
Energy companies facing ‘intrusive’ CFTC special calls
Small derivatives hedgers bewildered by emails from regulator
Energy Risk Asia Data Provider of the Year: Thomson Reuters
Data giant responds to needs of Asian energy traders with oil modules
Oesa: Europe little to learn from US clearing roll-out
US would have benefited from pragmatic European approach
A promising future
Sponsored statement: NYSE Liffe
Single-stock futures alternative to section 871(m) withholding
Single stocks the future?
Fatca fears reach swaps market
US tax rules could leave compliant foreign firms out of pocket unless swap documentation is amended
Asic temporarily exempts Australian banks from non-CFTC trade reporting requirements
Australian industry needs additional time to set up trade reporting infrastructure