07 May 2012
Destination: Compliance
Ryan Baccus, Sapient
Since there is no industry-standard global playbook for meeting new over-the-counter derivatives rules, here are some tips to avoid major pitfalls.
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Opinion & Analysis
- Destination: Compliance (Sapient, Ryan Baccus)
- The Dangers of De Minimus (Kinetix Trading Solutions, George Bollenbacher) 3 Comments
- Exemptions Are a Mirage – There’s No Escaping the Cost of Collateral (TABB Group, TABB Group, Will Rhode, Paul Rowady) 1 Comment
- Bringing OTC Derivatives in from the Cold (Asset Control, Phil Lynch, President & CEO) 2 Comments
- Dodd-Frank's Unintended Consequences Hit Transparency (Depository Trust & Clearing Corp, Donald Donahue) 3 Comments
- Do SEF Aggregators Really Matter Now? (TABB Group, Kevin McPartland) 7 Comments
- Tackling the CFTC’s Block Trading Rule (Kinetix Trading Solutions, George Bollenbacher)
- Trading OTC Derivatives: Mitigating Risk through Strategic and Operational Change (IPC, David Dodd, SVP, Managing Director of Asia Pacific)
- Derivatives Regulation Roundup
(TABB Group, Larry Tabb)
- OTC Market Transparency in Danger (The Depository Trust and Clearing Corp., Dan Cohen) 1 Comment
- Mind the Gap: Dodd-Frank vs. the Rest of the World (Kinetix Trading Solutions, George Bollenbacher)
- Solving the Puzzle: Asia Edition (EY, Kishore Kumar Ramakrishnan)
- Honey, I Shrunk the Market (ISDA, ISDA, Robert Pickel, George Handjinicolaou) 2 Comments
- Solving the Puzzle of OTC Derivatives Reporting (EY, Kishore Kumar Ramakrishnan)
- Dealer with a Capital “D” (TABB Group, Kevin McPartland) 3 Comments
- Turning Dodd-Frank into an Opportunity (Kinetix Trading Solutions, George Bollenbacher)
- Do We Want to Adopt MATT? (Kinetix Trading Solutions, George Bollenbacher) 3 Comments
- Swaps Liquidity Fragmentation (and Aggregation) (TABB Group, Kevin McPartland)
- Why ISDA Has Resorted to the Courts (ISDA, Conrad Volstad, CEO, and Robert Pickel, Executive Vice Chairman) 1 Comment
- Crash Course: MF Global & Dodd-Frank
(Kinetix Trading Solutions, George Bollenbacher)
- Transparency, Dodd-Frank and Unintended Consequences (The Depository Trust & Clearing Corp., Larry Thompson)
- Crash Course: MF Global and Dodd-Frank (Kinetix Trading Solutions, George Bollenbacher) 4 Comments
- Greece Won’t Kill CDS, Dodd-Frank Will (TABB Group, Kevin McPartland) 7 Comments
- Undermining Transparency (The Depository Trust and Clearing Corp., Dan Cohen) 3 Comments
- Data Demands in a New Era of Swaps Trading (TabbFORUM, Gregory Crawford)
- Derivatives Reform a Bright Spot? Who Would’ve Guessed? (TABB Group, Kevin McPartland)
- Can Single Dealer Platforms Become Organized Trading Facilities? (TABB Group, Will Rhode) 8 Comments
- What You Didn't Know About Synthetic Products and New Market Regs (Nomura, Nomura, Andrew Bowley, Gareth Carrol) 3 Comments
- What To Do in a Fast-Paced Futures World (Fidessa, Dan Smalley) 1 Comment
- The Free Flow of Data (Managing Director, Head of Government Relations, Dan Cohen) 6 Comments
- Rules of Risk Management for OTC Derivatives (Kinetix Trading Solutions, George Bollenbacher) 4 Comments
- Electronic Swaps Trading Is Not a Myth (TABB Group, Kevin McPartland) 9 Comments
- SEFs: A Progress Report (TABB Group, Kevin McPartland) 5 Comments
- What's Behind the SEF Explosion – Regulation or Opportunity? (Head of Product Mgmt., SunGard Capital Markets, Tim Dodd) 3 Comments
- Dodd-Frank: TABB Group's Kevin McPartland on Benzinga Radio
- Light At the End of the (Regulatory) Tunnel? (newedge, Valery Lepinette)
- Fixed Income Market Evolution
(TABB, Kevin McPartland)
- Dodd-Frank: Practical Implications & Uncharted Territory
(Kinetix Trading Solutions, George Bollenbacher)
- Kevin McPartland’s Opening Remarks to a Senate Banking Committee on SEF Progress (TABB Group, Kevin McPartland) 4 Comments
- Don't Miss the (OTC Derivatives) Forest for the Trees (TabbFORUM, Gregory Crawford)
- Preview of a SEF (MarketAxess, Rick McVey, Chairman and CEO) 1 Comment
- Practical Implications of Dodd-Frank on the Trading of OTC Derivatives (Kinetix Trading Solutions, George Bollenbacher)
- Uncertainty Aside, Dodd-Frank Driving Fixed Income Tech (TabbFORUM Contributing Editor, Marine Cole) 1 Comment
- Dodd-Frank’s Impact on OTC Derivatives
(Capco, Joe Anastasio)
- Regulatory Arbitrage: Fact, Fiction or a Little Bit of Both? (TabbFORUM Contributing Editor, Marine Cole) 1 Comment
- Dear Mr. Regulator: Flexibility Needed for Forex SEFs (FXall, Phil Weisberg, CEO) 3 Comments
- Forex Derivatives Big, Risky Enough for Regulation (Stanford University, Darrell Duffie) 4 Comments
- Joining the VIPs, With a Hitch (New York University, Kapil Khetan) 5 Comments
- Managing Liquidity Post Derivatives Reform
(TABB, Kevin McPartland)
- A new CDS Loophole (TABB Group, Kevin McPartland) 8 Comments
- Time for a Dodd-Frank Alternative (Gary DeWaal) 5 Comments
- SEF Showcase - The End User Panel
(TABB Group, Kevin McPartland)
- Re-thinking Compression in a Cleared Swaps World (Eris Exchange, Michael Riddle)
- Larry Tabb and Kevin McPartland Tweet from "SEF-a-palooza"
- Kevin McPartland Opening Address to CFTC at SEF Showcase (aka SEF-a-palooza) (TABB Group, Kevin McPartland) 3 Comments
- A View of OTC Swaps Reform from the Boca Raton Shuttle (Anonymous) 2 Comments
- What's the SEF Def? A TABB Group Industry Barometer (TABB Group, Kevin McPartland) 1 Comment
- Talking SEFs in the Florida Sun (TABB Group, Kevin McPartland)
- Dodd-Frank: It's Coming and It's Costly
(TABB, Gregory Crawford)
2 Comments
- OTC Derivatives and the Question of When (SunGard, Tony Scianna, Executive Vice President )
- SEF-a-Palooza: Commenting on the Comments (TABB Group, Kevin McPartland) 4 Comments
- Cross Margining Melee
(TABB Group, TABB Group, Adam Sussman, Kevin McPartland)
1 Comment
- How to Create a New Bank Capital Crisis (TABB Group, Kevin McPartland) 6 Comments
- CFTC Funding Debate
(TABB Group, Larry Tabb)
- Client Clearing: How Will They Choose?
(TABB)
- What's the Future for Swaps Trading?
(TABB)
- Central Clearing: Challenges and Risks
(TABB)
- SEF Definition is Set: Now What?
(TABB)
- The Peter Fisher Interview: A Guide
- BlackRock's Peter Fisher on OTC Derivatives Reform
(TABB)
2 Comments
- CFTC Commissioner O'Malia on Dodd-Frank Rulemaking and Implementation
(TABB)
- Technology or Bust: Don't Fear the Telephone Order (Thunderhead, Kevin Thorogood, Global Head of Investment Banking)
- Data Storage and the CFTC
(TABB Group, Larry Tabb)
1 Comment
- One-Size-Fits-All Won't Work for Dodd-Frank: CFTC's O'Malia to TabbFORUM Conference (TabbFORUM, Gregory Crawford)
- TabbFORUM OTC Derivatives Takeaways
(TABB Group, Larry Tabb)
- OTC Derivative Reform Interview: Roger Liddell, LCH.Clearnet CEO
(TABB, Kevin McPartland)
1 Comment
- OTC Derivative Reform Interview: Javelin CEO Jamie Cawley
(Javelin Capital Markets, Jamie Cawley)
- OTC Derivative Reform Interview: IPC's Bart Bartolozzi
(IPC, Bart Bartolozzi)
- OTC Derivatives Reform Interview: ICAP's Chris Ferreri
(TABB, Kevin McPartland)
- Derivatives: Rules of Engagement
(CFTC, Commissioner Scott O'Malia)
- BlackRock's Fisher on Inflation, Economy & More
(BlackRock, Peter Fisher)
- SEFs and Electronic Credit Trading
(TABB, Kevin McPartland)
- Transparency, But Not As We Know It (TriOptima, Per Sjoberg, executive vice president; Susan Hinko, global head of industry relations)
- The Role of Clearinghouses in OTC Derivatives (Kinetix Trading Solutions, George Bollenbacher) 2 Comments
- OTC Derivatives Rules: Not What, But When (TABB Group, Kevin McPartland)
- The New SEF Rules
(Tradeweb, Lee Olesky)
- OTC Derivatives Trading and Clearing: A Frantic Pace of Change (TABB Group, Kevin McPartland) 3 Comments
- Europe 2011 – Regulation, Consolidation and a New Dynamic (TABB Group, TABB Group, Miranda Mizen, Will Rhode) 1 Comment
- Cutting OTC Derivatives Clearing Capital Requirements: Making the Credit Crisis Look like a Walk in the Park (TABB Group, Larry Tabb) 26 Comments
- Increasing Collateral Costs in OTC Derivatives
(TABB Group, Paul Rowady)
- CFTC's Gensler: I Support the Dodd-Frank Rulemaking (TabbFORUM, Gregory Crawford)
- Measuring the Global Risk Transfer Market
(TABB Group, Paul Rowady)
- The Impending CFTC SEF Proposal: What You Need to Know and Why (TABB Group, Kevin McPartland) 6 Comments
- Re-Thinking Our Markets: A Few Ideas for Structural Change (TABB Group, Larry Tabb) 24 Comments
- Gravity, Logic and Sanity Hit the CFTC (TabbFORUM, Gregory Crawford)
- Centrally Cleared CfDs: A Buy Side Perspective
(TABB Group, Will Rhode)
The Dangers of De Minimus
George Bollenbacher, Kinetix Trading Solutions
Pushing ahead with Dodd-Frank rulemaking, the CFTC and SEC created a reverse loophole affecting swap dealers. They figured it out too late. Continue
Additional Resources
- Whitepaper: Regulation meets Market Evolution - Changing Face of OTC Derivatives Trading (EY, Kishore Kumar Ramakrishnan)
- Whitepaper: OTC Derivatives in the Post-Dodd-Frank Landscape — Implications for Investment Managers (Citi, Mike Sleightholme, Global Head of Hedge Fund Services and Bikramjit Singh, Global Head of OTC Derivative Services)
- Whitepaper: ISDA's OTC Derivatives Market Analysis Year-end 2010
- Whitepaper: Regulatory Reform and OTC Derivatives (Capco, Joe Anastasio and Pramod Achanta, Partners)
- Whitepaper: Swap Execution Facilities: Can They Improve the Structure of OTC Derivatives Markets? (International Swaps and Derivatives Association)
- Whitepaper: ISDA Study: Transparency in OTC Equity Derivatives Markets: a Quantitative Study (ISDA, Marco Avellaneda & Rama Cont)
- Whitepaper: ISDA Study: Trade Transparency in OTC Equity Derivatives Markets (Marco Avellaneda & Rama Cont)
- GETCO: A Modern Market Maker's Perspective on the European Financial Markets Regulatory Agenda (GETCO Europe LTD. )
- Comments on: Joint CFTC-SEC Advisory Committee on Emerging Regulatory Issues (SEC)
- Statement of Craig S Donohue, CEO of CME Group, Before the Joint CFTC-SEC Committee on Emerging Regulatory Issues (CME Group, Craig Donohue, CEO)

Spotlight Series: OTC Derivatives Reform