Exchanges & Clearing News

September 18th, 2009	CME Group Opens Credit Default Swaps Initiative to Additional Partners and Focuses Solution on Clearing Services
September 17th, 2009	LCH.Clearnet Set to Clear for the London Bullion Market
September 15th, 2009	SLIB Extends its Clearing Solutions to SecFinex Securities Borrowing/Lending on LCH.Clearnet SA
September 14th, 2009	ICE Trust Exceeds $2 Trillion Mark in Cleared CDS Transactions
August 31st, 2009	Eurex Credit Clear Clears First Single Name CDS Worldwide
August 20th, 2009	RepoClear Celebrates 10 Years of Reducing Risk for the European Bond and Repo Markets
August 17th, 2009	ICE Clear Europe Clears Euro 51 Billion in Third Week of European CDS Processing
August 10th, 2009	ICE Clear Europe Clears Euro 32 Billion in Second Week of European CDS Processing
August 5th, 2009	TC Order Permits Eurex Clearing to Expand its OTC Facilities in the U.S.
August 4th, 2009	ICE Reports Increase in Futures Volume for July 2009
August 3rd, 2009	ICE Clear Europe Announces euro5.9 Billion in CDS Cleared for Week of July 27, 2009
July 28th, 2009	ICE Clear Europe Launches European CDS Clearing
July 23rd, 2009	Eurex Credit Clear – the European OTC Clearing Solution for Credit Default Swaps – to Start on 30 July 2009
July 23rd, 2009	ICE Announces October Launch of Buy-Side Solution for CDS Clearing
July 20th, 2009	LCH.Clearnet Extends SwapClear Offering to Include OIS
June 18th, 2009	NYSE Euronext and DTCC to Create Joint Venture for more Efficient Clearing of U.S. Fixed Income Securities and Derivatives
June 10th, 2009	LCH.Clearnet set to clear trades on Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange
June 3rd, 2009	Montréal Exchange and CDCC successfully Launch SOLA® Clearing
June 2nd, 2009	CME Group Announces the Launch of Clearing Services for PJM Western Hub 50 MW Peak Electricity Swap Futures
June 2nd, 2009	ICE Reports 11% Increase in Futures ADV for May 2009; CDS Clearing Surpasses $730 Billion in Notional Value

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SEF Rules Passed by CFTC this Week

After much anticipation, the CFTC passed final rules on the governance of swap execution facilities (SEFs) including rules on the minimum quotes required and swaps block rules.

Views vary on many elements of the newly approved rules with some industry participants believing the rules to be fair and others very problematic.

Regulation Timeline

Keep up with current regulatory reform activities with this reference guide. Derivsource's Derivatives Regulation Timeline