This week marks the fifth anniversary of Dodd-Frank Act being signed into law by President… Read more Dodd-Frank: The Five-Year Appraisal

The term — inter-affiliate trade — is hardly a household phrase.  But it is at… Read more Bipartisan Consensus Emerges on Inter-Affiliate Trades

As a former commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), I can attest to… Read more Client Margin Protections Should Be Recognized

At the end of this year, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision plans to finalize… Read more FRTB: Time Running Out

On the face of it, the mandatory reporting of derivatives transaction data has seen most… Read more Well Said, Chairman Massad

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s impact studies are useful. They provide regulators with a… Read more Basel’s FRTB QIS: Why the Difference?

Earlier this month, buy- and sell-side market professionals participated in an ISDA conference in New… Read more An Elegant Solution

An important yet largely unnoticed step in efforts to improve regulatory transparency came to pass… Read more SDR Indemnification Removal: A Good Step Forward

Later this week, an industry workshop will convene in Washington, DC to discuss efforts to… Read more MIFID II: Wait for CPMI-IOSCO on Product Identifiers

The March 8 publication by European supervisory authorities (ESAs) of their final rules on the… Read more Starter’s Gun Fired in European Margin Race