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  • Energy companies eye exemption in financial derivatives overhaul 23 Nov 2009 23:54 GMT
    ... Energy companies eye exemption in financial derivatives overhaul ... for their share of the multitrillion-dollar derivatives market. The Edison Electric Institute (EEI), Electric Power ... particularly one form known as credit default swaps, for exacerbating the financial crisis and bringing ...

  • FPGAs Speed Financial Derivative Risk Analysis By More than 1100X 17 Nov 2009 20:54 GMT
    ... and ET International today announced that an FPGA cluster ... years, exotic financial instruments such as debt swaps and collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) have played ... Black-Scholes model to accommodate new understanding of market behaviors. Stochastic methods that rely on Monte ...

  • Derivatives Clearing Gives Congress Fits 23 Nov 2009 13:25 GMT
    ... into pricing of OTC derivatives, an opaque market that is virtually exempt from federal regulation. ... and Europe for plain vanilla credit default swaps and CDS indices. CME even scrapped its ... Risk, margin and interest payments on long-term swap contracts. ... The methodology is more complex." ...

  • Icap predicts surge in CDS and interest rate swaps 17 Nov 2009 17:54 GMT
    ... Icap predicts surge in CDS and interest rate swaps By Alistair Gray and Jeremy Grant in ... would result in an expansion of the market for instruments such as credit default swaps ...

  • Derivatives trade group names pioneer Voldstad CEO 19 Nov 2009 23:21 GMT
    ... YORK, Nov 19 (Reuters) - The International Swaps and Derivatives Association said on Thursday it ... the first person to head JPMorgan's global swap group, its first dedicated derivatives group, which ... while volumes in credit derivatives, a newer market, have grown to $31 trillion from $631 ...

  • Draft EU derivatives law set for July 2010 24 Nov 2009 09:53 GMT
    ... The European Market Infrastructure Directive will focus on reducing risks ... in future. Central clearing of credit default swaps, a derivatives contract found at the heart ...

  • MONEY MARKETS-Thai swaps extend slide as rate hike bets unwound 24 Nov 2009 09:54 GMT
    ... Nov 24 (Reuters) - Thai interest rate swaps continued their fall across maturities on Tuesday ... rate increases were reversed. In New Zealand, swap rates and bond yields rose after a ... steepening between July and mid-October as the market prepared for an eventual rate rise. The ...

  • ICE sets the trend in iron ore derivatives 20 Nov 2009 09:15 GMT
    ... hard commodities that doesn't have a futures market and until now iron ore was one ... be traded as it launches iron ore swaps contract on December 2 in association with ... Ore Index. The ICE Platts Iron Ore Swap 62% Fe (metallic iron) contract will be ...

  • Longevity swaps outdo pension buyouts in 2009 24 Nov 2009 00:42 GMT
    ... Landmark longevity swaps done in 2009 account for most of ... £4bn combined value of UK pension scheme swap deals, buyouts and buy-ins in 2009 so ... saw the total value of this nascent market hit £2.9bn, Hymans reported in November. The ...

  • ICE Announces Introduction of Cleared Iron Ore Swap 20 Nov 2009 01:50 GMT
    ... ICE Announces Introduction of Cleared Iron Ore Swap SINGAPORE, Nov. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- IntercontinentalExchange, Inc. ... world's largest commodity without a significant derivatives market. "As a major input to steel production, ... trade values in the over the counter swaps market for iron ore has also been ...

  • ICE Announces Introduction of Cleared Iron Ore Swap 20 Nov 2009 01:52 GMT
    ... ICE Announces Introduction of Cleared Iron Ore Swap SINGAPORE, Nov 19, 2009 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX ... world's largest commodity without a significant derivatives market. "As a major input to steel production, ... trade values in the over the counter swaps market for iron ore has also been ...

  • ICE Announces Introduction of Cleared Iron Ore Swap (PRN) 20 Nov 2009 01:50 GMT
    ... world's largest commodity without a significant derivatives market. "As a major input to steel production, ... for derivative transactions. The ICE Iron Ore Swap is based upon the most commonly traded ... trade values in the over the counter swaps market for iron ore has also been ...

  • Auditor General to release swaps report tomorrow 18 Nov 2009 02:52 GMT
    ... audit of local governments' use of risky financial derivatives tomorrow in Allentown. Wagner's special investigation ... put taxpayer money at risk in interest-rate swaps," his office said in a statement today. ... spent more than $10 million in net swap payments and $25.4 million in fees and ...

  • Longevity swaps outdo pension buyouts in 2009 23 Nov 2009 23:55 GMT
    ... Longevity swaps outdo pension buyouts in 2009 Landmark longevity ... £4bn combined value of UK pension scheme swap deals, buyouts and buy-ins in 2009 so ... saw the total value of this nascent market hit £2.9bn, Hymans reported in November. The ...

  • Derivatives proposals suit smaller players 19 Nov 2009 20:10 GMT
    ... over 90 percent of the U.S. derivatives market. "To the extent that you create exchange-like ... extent that you create exchange-like structures to trade (derivatives), that then would allow a firm ... market participants to use a so-called "alternative swap execution facility." Inter-dealer brokers, who stand between trade ...


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