Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform
| February 6th, 2012 | Swap Dealers – Tackling Tasks to Comply with Dodd-Frank US financial reform legislation transforms the swap market from an unregulated to a highly regulated market. Davis Polk & Wardwell estimates that swap dealers will have to manage over 1900 operational tasks to comply with new rules issued by federal regulators. |
| January 23rd, 2012 | The Interconnectivity of Regulation & the Risk, Cost & Operational Impact on Asset Managers Natalie Westerbarkey, Director, Client Executive at Citigroup Securities and Fund Services discusses how through understanding the new regulatory landscape and intersection (or interaction) of rules, asset managers can better assess the impact these new rules will have on their costs, risk management and operations |
| January 13th, 2012 | Week in Review: CFTC Approves New Rules on Customer Collateral, Swap Dealer Business Conduct & Volcker Rule
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| January 4th, 2012 | SEC Names Pamela A. Gibbs as Director of the Office of Minority and Women Inclusion The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Pamela A. Gibbs has been named as the inaugural Director of the Office of Minority and Women Inclusion, which oversees diversity in the agency’s employment, management, and business activities. |
| November 25th, 2011 | OTC Derivatives Documentation: the Need for Standardization In a DerivSource Spotlight article, Sapient Global Markets explores some of the key impacts regulatory reforms will have on the documentation of OTC derivatives. |
| November 13th, 2011 | OTC Derivatives Reform: the Complexity & Cost of Infrastructure Changes for Operations The OTC derivatives reform is opening up the industry to new operational risks, primarily due to the sheer magnitude of the system and process changes needed to be accomplished in a relatively compressed timeframe. Rule Financial’s Ciaran Henry explores the operational challenges associated with the Dodd-Frank compliance marathon now underway and offers insight into the complexities of processing trades in a new post-trade workflow including the challenges in trade reporting and data management. |
| October 19th, 2011 | LEI – the Design, Scope and Deadlines for the New Entity Identifier
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| October 3rd, 2011 | LEIs, CCPs and Collateral Twenty years ago when confirmations for OTC products were produced using Word for Windows 2.0 and sent by FAX for manual review, identifying the legal entity was a hit and miss affair. |
| July 13th, 2011 | Regulatory Reform – Delays, Disagreements & Predictions for What’s Next in 2011 Regulatory reform still faces delays and disagreements between the US and UK, which could have dire consequences on the derivatives industry if harmonisation is not achieved and all potential implications are not given appropriate attention. Roger Barton of Financial Reform Consultancy offers his personal predictions and questions to be answered regarding EMIR, MiFID II, systemic risk and global regulatory harmonisation. |
| May 13th, 2011 | SEFalicious – Market Evolution Meets Regulatory Revolution David B. Weiss, an independent consultant and research analyst, discusses the current state of SEFs and what the future holds for these trade execution facilities |
