by David Schwartz J.D. CPA, Executive Director | Mar 19, 2012 | All, Formal Regulatory Remedies
John C. Coates IV, professor of law and economics at Harvard Law School, testified before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance and Investment on December 14. In his testimony, Professor Coates took up three themes related to pending proposals to...
by David Schwartz J.D. CPA, Executive Director | Mar 19, 2012 | All, Formal Regulatory Remedies
CFTC Chairman, Gary Gensler, says he believes that the days of the opaque swaps market are ending and a new era of transparency and commonsense rules of the road is on the horizon. Gensler’s October 10, 2012 address before the George Washington University Center...
by David Schwartz J.D. CPA, Executive Director | Mar 19, 2012 | All, Formal Regulatory Remedies, Procedural Changes
The European Securities and Markets Authority has issued a discussion draft on proposed regulation of OTC Derivatives, CCPs and trade repositories. The draft introduces provisions to improve transparency and reduce the risks associated with the OTC derivatives market...
by David Schwartz J.D. CPA, Executive Director | Mar 13, 2012 | All
The Bank for International Settlements on Monday issued its Quarterly Review for March 2012. The Review discusses the global effect of European bank deleveraging and also provides highlights from the latest BIS data sets on international banking and financial...
by David Schwartz J.D. CPA, Executive Director | Feb 28, 2012 | All, Change Overview and Rationale
The Bank for International Settlements has issued preliminary locational and consolidated banking statistics for the quarter ended September 30, 2011. These statistics, though not final, indicate: In the third quarter of 2011, after adjusting for the effects of the...
