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November
FOW can reveal the first part of the results of its Awards for Innovation 2009: the Awards for Exchanges, Clearing Houses and Law Firms. The Awards for Banks, Brokers and FCMs and for IT and Software Companies will be declared in December.
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IntercontinentalExchange has scooped both prizes for clearing houses in FOW’s Awards for Innovation 2009, while its legal adviser Shearman & Sterling has taken the law firm Award.
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October
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The collapse of Lehman Brothers a year ago has given the derivatives market a hard shove in the direction of central counterparty clearing. That has opened up great opportunities for CCPs – but also given them some tough challenges, like competing to clear CDS when the investment banks seem to have opted in a herd for one provider. But Kim Taylor, president of CME Clearing House, tells Colin Packham she is confident CME will thrive in the newly competitive world of clearing.
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September
Regulators have seized on central counterparty (CCP) clearing as a solution to some of the risks in the over-the-counter derivatives markets. But Kevin White of Ineum Consulting warns that they should be careful.
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July
Dominant feeling when heads of exchanges and clearing houses discussed the challenges facing them at a conference in London in June
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Over-the-counter derivatives suffered less in the second half of 2008 than exchange-traded products
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April
Why did it take a financial crisis and regulatory whipping to bring the CDS market to embrace central counterparty clearing? Some people in the market clearly thought change would cost them money. Either they were right, and it will, or they were wrong, and the market is about to get more efficient. Vishala Sri-Pathma tries to find out which it is.
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The Options Industry Council, which represents the US equity and index options industry, has appointed Joseph Burgoyne as director of institutional and retail marketing. The position has been created to support institutional and retail educational programmes promoting the use of listed equity options.
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Cathryn Lyall has left Icap, where she was chief operating officer of exchange projects, and the UK interdealer broker is reviewing its commitment to launch its own derivatives exchange.
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European Commodity Clearing, the Leipzig-based clearing house, has appointed Christoph Mura as chief operating officer and a member of its executive board of directors.
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LCH.Clearnet has appointed Ed Watts as senior country adviser, to head a new office opened by the Anglo-French independent clearing house in New York.