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Margin Requirements
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Corporate and Securities Law
ISDA Survey Finds End Users Uncertain About New Margin Requirements
Corporate & Financial Weekly Digest
JAC Maintains Current Restrictions on Trading While Undermargined and Publishes Summary of Residual Interest Requirements
By Kevin M. Foley, James M. Brady
The Joint Audit Committee (JAC) has announced that it will maintain its current restrictions on trading while undermargined. As background, the JAC Margins Handbook provides that if an account is…
Corporate & Financial Weekly Digest
CFTC Proposes Margin Rules for Uncleared Swaps
By Ross Pazzol
On September 17, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued proposed rules that would impose margin requirements on certain market participants with respect to their transactions in uncleared swaps. Similar to…
Corporate and Securities Law
CFTC Proposes Margin Rules for Uncleared Swaps
Corporate and Securities Law
Bank Regulators Propose Relaxed Margin Requirements for Corporate End Users of Uncleared Swaps
Derivatives & Repo Report
Practical (Brief) Musings on the Non-Cleared Swaps Margin Proposal
Earlier today, we published an overview of the margin proposal issued by the banking regulators. We encourage all of our readers to read that posting, but recognize that it is…
Derivatives & Repo Report
Banking Regulators Propose New Margin Rules for Non-Cleared Swaps
Margin Proposal Outline 09_08_2014 On September 2nd, the Federal banking regulators (OCC, Federal Reserve, FDIC, FCA and FHFA) issued a new rule proposal and request for comment on rules that would govern the posting…
Corporate & Financial Weekly Digest
US Banking Regulators Propose Margin Requirements for Uncleared Swaps
By Ross Pazzol
On September 3, the Federal Reserve Board, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Federal Housing Finance Agency and Farm Credit Administration (collectively, Agencies) proposed rules…
Corporate & Financial Weekly Digest
FINRA Proposes to Amend Rule 4210
By Janet M. Angstadt, Ross Pazzol
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. requested comments on amendments to Rule 4210 to establish margin requirements for To Be Announced (TBA) market transactions. The TBA market is where most…
Corporate & Financial Weekly Digest
Global Regulators Adopt Final Margin Requirements for Uncleared Derivatives
On September 2, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and the Board of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) jointly published a…