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Commentary
Content posted in February 2012
Are the Markets Just Too Fast?
Commentary  |  2/29/2012  | 
Regulators including the SEC and the CFTC are struggling to keep up with and keep a grip on the warp-speed world of high-frequency trading -- and they are considering some severe measures as they struggle to understand just what HFT is.
How Brokers Can Survive in Mature Markets
Commentary  |  2/29/2012  | 
Feds Giving Hedge Funds The Mob Treatment to Fight Insider Trading
Commentary  |  2/28/2012  | 
The FBI says it has enough informants to bring insider trading cases to trial for the next five years, a tactic that helped decimate the so-called mafia in the 1990s.
Credit Default Swaps Are Not 'Evil'
Commentary  |  2/28/2012  | 
It's time to take CDSs off the list of investment instruments of which we dare not speak.
Moving to a Centralized Collateral Management Environment: The Way Forward
Commentary  |  2/27/2012  | 
Firms can centralize their collateral management processes by using tactical solutions that will work not only in the short term, but that will also give them the tools necessary to comply with future regulations and embrace new technologies as they become available.
What Is HFT Exactly?
Commentary  |  2/23/2012  | 
SEC Expands Investigation of ETFs: Report
Commentary  |  2/22/2012  | 
The wider probe of ETFs comes after a trade in a large, liquid ETF didn't settle within a four-day period and the SEC is examining what role high-frequency trading plays in such situations, according to Reuters.
Will Higher Gas Prices Stall the Recovery?
Commentary  |  2/22/2012  | 
Swaps Regs Up the Ante on Collateral Management
Commentary  |  2/21/2012  | 
To cope with new swaps regulations, Kempen Capital Management scrapped its Excel spreadsheets in favor of an iinhouse collateral management system.
Exchange Suitors Circle LME, But Deal Could Turn on Regulators and Clearing
Commentary  |  2/17/2012  | 
A bunch of global exchanges, including the likes of CME and NYSE Euronext, are said to be submitting bids to acquire the London Metals Exchange, one of the last pit-based exchanges still standing.
Preparing for Margin Call Mania In Cleared Swaps
Commentary  |  2/15/2012  | 
The regulatory push toward central clearing of OTC derivatives is going to create higher volumes of margin calls on cleared swaps for buy and sell sides. Manual emails will no longer suffice!
Should Apple Start a Hedge Fund?
Commentary  |  2/14/2012  | 
Do Smaller Paychecks for Bankers Mean Occupy Wall Street Won?
Commentary  |  2/8/2012  | 
A combination of regulation, weaker revenues, and political pressure in various countries has led to lower paychecks on Wall Street.
Small 'New Market' Change? I Don't Think So.
Commentary  |  2/7/2012  | 
NYSE/DB: Why Brussels Got It Wrong
Commentary  |  2/7/2012  | 
Go West, Young Quant
Commentary  |  2/6/2012  | 
The Facebook IPO: Ready, Set, Recovery
Commentary  |  2/2/2012  | 


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