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  • Has interoperability arrived in derivatives?

    16 May 2013

    Galen Stops looks at the tie up between the DTCC and Euroclear and asks if it could pave the way for interoperability in the derivatives market.

  • Eurex to relaunch Euribor

    15 May 2013

    Eurex is to relaunch its Euribor contract imminently in a bid to wrest liquidity from Liffe and rise to the challenge of NLX, writes William Mitting.

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Exchanges

  • Eurex to relaunch Euribor

    15 May 2013

    Eurex is to relaunch its Euribor contract imminently in a bid to wrest liquidity from Liffe and rise to the challenge of NLX, writes William Mitting.

  • Liffe's battle with TOM has bigger implications

    25 April 2013

    William Mitting looks at the legal dispute between NYSE Liffe and TOM over index licensing and argues that any court decision could have far reaching implications.

Clearing

  • CCPs: Models and Reality

    30 April 2013

    Craig Pirrong, professor of finance at the University of Houston and author of the Streetwise Professor blog, takes a look at how academic CCP models don't match up to the reality.

  • Finding efficiencies in the promised land of cross-margining

    24 April 2013

    As part of our interest rates special Galen Stops looks at some of the predicted savings from cross-margining and the practical and regulatory challenges to achieving them.

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What is the main reason volumes down on derivatives exchanges this year?

Banks are cutting back on trading ahead of Volcker Rule
13%
Financial institutions are more risk averse
49%
Risk is too one directional
1%
Few new contracts are being launched
4%
Low interest rate environment
11%
Uncertainty about regulatory reform
23%