Stephen O’Connor, ISDA Chairman’s raises concerns that the  Dodd-Frank Act could increase, rather than decrease risk. 

The EBA has agreed recommendations to supervisors to conduct asset quality reviews on major EU banks. 

CFTC Commissioner Scott D. O’Malia  Speaking At The Energy Risk, USA 2013

As I was preparing my speech and reflecting on the most important answers that the Commission must give to market participants, I thought of the famous statement made by former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, “[t]here are known knowns; there are things we know that we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don’t know we don’t know.”¹ It has occurred to me that these three categories could just as easily be applied to the Commission’s implementation of Dodd-Frank.

The ISDA 2013 Reporting Protocol, which contains a counterparty’s consent to the disclosure of information, is intended to facilitate market participants’ compliance with mandatory trade reporting requirements.

German Banking Industry Associations presents the clearing framework
agreement (Clearing-Rahmenvereinbarung – CRV) for German banks and their
buy-side customers Eurex Clearing welcomes approval of CRV/
CRV can be used with the Eurex Clearing's Individual Segregation Model and
EurexOTC Clear for Interest Rate Swaps.

BankersAccuity has provided an assessment of money laundering and financial terrorism in Russia following their attendance at the recent International AML/CFT Conference hosted by Association of Russian Banks, Federal Financial Monitoring Service and the Bank of Russia. 

A new study from State Street Corporation   highlights that since the financial crisis, one in three European pension schemes claims it is either ‘extremely difficult’ or ‘difficult’ to keep up with new regulatory developments in the pensions industry. 

TradingScreen Inc. (TradingScreen), independent provider of liquidity, trading, and investment technology via SaaS, is in compliance with the final CFTC rules under the Dodd-Frank Act covering certain foreign exchange (FX) transactions, requiring firms display mid-point pricing on foreign exchange pre-spot, forward outrights, non-deliverable forwards and swap trades.

Advise Technologies, LLC, a software solutions provider for global regulatory compliance, today announced that it will offer the first CPO-PQR e-filing platform to the National Futures Association (NFA) EasyFile portal. This will be the first time that filing electronically is possible for Form CPO-PQR.

The Board of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) published today a final report on Technological Challenges to Effective Market Surveillance: Issues and Regulatory Tools, which makes recommendations to help market authorities address the technological challenges facing effective market surveillance.