At its 33rd Annual General Meeting in Miami, ISDA caught up with Professor Rama Cont, Chair of Mathematical Finance, Imperial College London, and asked him: “Do the margin rules for non-cleared derivatives need to be re-examined to improve liquidity in that market?”
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