Tag Archives: Derivatives
DFA and Framework for payment, clearing and settlement regulation,
Title VIII of the Dodd-Frank Act, titled the “Payment, Clearing, and Settlement Supervision Act of 2010,” was enacted to mitigate systemic risk in the financial system and to promote financial stability, in part, through enhanced supervision...
DFA and Volcker rule (Proprietary Trading)
Federal Regulators in the United States are moving ahead with a rule that would ban banks from trading for their own profit.
This rule – popularly known as Volcker Rule – is covered under Section 619 of Dodd Frank Act and contains two broad...
DFA and Federal regulation of the derivatives market
Title VII of Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act address the gap in U.S. financial regulation of OTC derivatives by providing a comprehensive framework for their regulation.
The Dodd-Frank Act divides regulatory authority...
OTC Derivatives Products – An overview
The expression ‘over the counter – OTC’ can be used to mean financial instruments that are traded between counterparties (dealers) either directly or through broker network. This operation is different from operations in centralized exchanges...
Current Trends in Equity Derivatives Market Place
Equity Derivatives fall into following four categories
Flow derivatives – vanilla, listed and OTC options, variance, futures and synthetic futures, convertibles
Delta 1 – Single Stock, Sector Swaps, ETFs, Pnotes
Exotics
Convertibles
An...
Best Practices Framework for Derivatives Business
“The world of banking has changed radically as a consequence of the recent crises and it is still changing. The rise of the universal banking model seems almost unstoppable, basically driven by the desire for an accelerated consolidation....
Commodity Derivatives (ppt)
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Central Counter Parties have a greater role to play
This blog makes an attempt to cover the role of central counterparties in four parts as under:
Part A– All about Central Counterparties
Part B– Best practices framework for CCPs
Part C – Some loud thinking on their future roles
Part D...
OTC Derivatives’s Central Clearing – the focus
The introduction of legislation in the US and Europe to move settlement of some OTC derivative products through a Central Counter Party is the much talked about topic among leading bankers. The aim of this legislation is to bring in much needed...
An insight into swap execution facility
Swap Execution Facility is a new entity created by Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (in US).
A swap is broadly defined to include most OTC derivatives. Rates swaps, currency swaps, equity swaps, credit default swaps...
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