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EMIR OTC Trade Reporting Officially Delayed Until February 2014
EMIR Trade Reporting deadline delay explained Keep your betting pools going on the EMIR Trade Reporting deadline. EMIR has officially moved the reporting deadline from
EMIR ETD | “Belay That Order”
ESMA holding off required ETD deals… News made the rounds last week that ESMA was holding off on requiring ETD deals be reported to TRs
Excellent Commentary by Aviv Handler on EMIR Start
When is EMIR reporting going to start? Post authoWe have seen more than one change of date under EMIR over the last 2 weeks, including
SDR/TR | Standardi (Z or S) ation
StandardiZation, StandardiSation. Why can’t we all just agree??? With the Dodd-Frank SDR reporting inching slow ahead to full steam in the US, how have we
Waiting for EMIR
Waiting for EMIR Safe to say the general gestalt of the industry is DOUBT. Officially, companies are supposed to be sending trades over to a
Your End-User Dodd-Frank Checklist
End-User Dodd-Frank Updates and Checklist In Texas it’s illegal to graffiti someone’s cow. Seriously, you can’t make this stuff up. So at some point someone
Extract, Transform and Load – Same Syntax, Different Semantics
ETL for Developers or Analysts? Can we all get along? Our customers use K3 to connect systems efficiently and to consolidate data across a number
Next Named Storm – No SQL
“A Platform Does Not Make A Solution…” This post is actually a response to a very thoughtful article by Merv Adiran and Ted Friedman over
The Year of the Snake…and Trade Break
The Year of the Snake…and Trade Break I’m not big on New Year resolutions or on predictions. But in the case of Dodd-Frank and EMIR
Dodd Frank | SDR Landscape Changes Again
Interesting action as of late. While the January deadline looms for Swaps Dealers, the landscape for SDRs keeps changing. Biggest news is that CME got
Trading 2013 | The Price is Right!
The 2013 Trading Landscape Remember the 2007 price manipulation case? There was an interesting clash between price publishers, alleged manipulative traders, and the CFTC. It
Dodd Frank | CFTC – Black Swan No Action
The CFTC issued some breaks by laying out a series of Dodd Frank “No-Action” letters. The biggies: CFTC issued a No-Action letter to prevent firms
