Yahoo

Regulators ease derivatives rule to avoid harming economy

LONDON (Reuters) - Global regulators have eased the impact of new rules designed to make the $630 trillion derivatives market safer as they seek to avoid too-tight controls on the sector that some ...
Fox Business

Regulators Mull New Mutual Fund Derivative Rules

U.S. securities regulators voted to seek public comment on whether to write new rules to better address the risks posed by mutual funds, exchange-traded funds and other investment companies that use ...
JD Supra

Derivatives Trade Reporting Rules Introduced in Remaining Canadian Jurisdictions

On January 22, 2016, the Canadian securities regulatory authorities in Alberta, British Columbia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, the Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Prince ...
Yahoo

Banks accept derivatives rule change to end 'too big to fail' scenario

LONDON (Reuters) - The $700 trillion (435 trillion pounds) financial derivatives industry has agreed to a fundamental rule change from January to help regulators to wind down failed banks without ...
JD Supra

Mandatory OTC Derivatives Clearing Rules Published for Second Round of Comments

On February 24, 2016, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) published a revised Proposed National Instrument 94-101 Mandatory Central Counterparty Clearing of Derivatives (Proposed Clearing ...
Reuters

Senators can't agree on OTC derivatives rules

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. senators charged with crafting rules to regulate the $450 trillion over-the-counter derivatives market have failed to reach an agreement, Democratic Senator Jack Reed said ...
Business Insider

Competing Global Derivatives Rules Could Lead To 'Chaos'

LONDON (Reuters) - Failure to thrash out a common supervision of the $640 trillion global financial derivatives industry will split markets and bump up costs for end users, a top regulator said on ...
Washington Examiner

SEC proposes capital rules for derivatives traders

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal regulators proposed setting minimum capital levels that banks and other firms that trade derivatives must hold as a cushion against risk. The Securities and Exchange ...
PBS

Financial Reform Gets Bipartisan Boost in Derivatives Rule Vote

Lawmakers moved closer to passing sweeping reform of the financial system as a Senate panel approved new regulations for the complex derivatives market with the backing of GOP Sen. Charles Grassley of ...
The Hill

Lobbyists stress industrial impact of derivatives rules

The Obama administration and congressional Democrats are working on a proposal to rein in the market for derivatives by trying to move most of the financial transactions onto central clearinghouses or ...
The National Law Review

SEC Adopts Final Derivatives Rule and Related Amendments

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