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Australian Traders React to Global Market Plunge
August 05, 2011 @ 10:50 AM | By Greg MacSweeney

Traders across the globe reacted to yesterday's global markets plunge. In Australia, one trader says this sell off differs from 2008.

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Apps On The Street: TD Ameritrade Sees Mobile Trading Increase 125 Percent With iPad, iPhone Apps
April 06, 2011 @ 12:17 PM | By Melanie Rodier

With traders increasingly looking for customized mobile solutions, TD Ameritrade has added the iPad and the iPhone to its suite of mobile trading offerings.

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The Goldman Sachs Profanity Police
July 30, 2010 @ 07:24 AM | By Gregory MacSweeney

Goldman Sachs, embarrassed by the profanity that was used in the now infamous email that was brought to light by Sen. Carl Levin during a Congressional hearing, has moved to prohibit employees from swearing in emails. Goldman is deploying technology that will screen for "bad" words in emails and text messages.

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FDIC May Securitize Bad Assets
January 26, 2010 @ 11:32 AM | By Gregory MacSweeney

The FDIC is planning on securitizing the assets and selling it off to investors.

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CFTC Chairman Calls for Comprehensive Reform to OTC Derivatives Market
November 20, 2009 @ 11:23 AM | By Gregory MacSweeney

Gary Gensler, chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), says that most important thing that needs to happen to the over the counter derivatives market is comprehensive reform.

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The CFTC's Warning that Went Unheeded
October 21, 2009 @ 11:01 AM | By Gregory MacSweeney

PBS's FRONTLINE takes a look at how the CFTC tried to regulate the derivatives markets back in the fall of 2008.

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Bet Your Life?
October 12, 2009 @ 10:19 AM | By Gregory MacSweeney

Are Life Settlement Securities the next toxic asset? Less than one year after the credit crisis, firms such as Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse and JP Morgan are creating life settlement securities which are made by repackaging thousands of life insurance policies into tradable securities.

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Move To OTC Clearing Is Right Says LCH.Clearnet CEO
August 13, 2009 @ 10:34 AM | By Gregory MacSweeney

As regulators focus on curbing speculation, the Wall Street Journal chats with Roger Liddell, LCH.Clearnet CEO, about whether things are headed in the right direction.

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Overreaching Derivatives Regulation Worries Dealers
June 05, 2009 @ 07:36 AM | By Gregory MacSweeney

The regulator of the futures trading industry is proposing new rules for trading financial contracts known as derivatives. Big banks are now fretting about overreaching regulation.

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Is the Credit Crunch Finally Abating?
June 05, 2009 @ 07:27 AM | By Gregory MacSweeney

Last September, Standard & Poor's Market, Credit and Risk Strategies Group launched the Credit Crunch Checklist, designed to help investors know when the credit freeze started to thaw. The checklist indicates the market is recovering.

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Book Dissects J.P. Morgan During the Financial Meltdown
May 14, 2009 @ 11:04 AM | By Gregory MacSweeney

A new book dissects J.P. Morgan's role in the financial crisis and how JPM managed to both help create the products that would ultimately derail the markets and also how JPM avoided some of the huge losses tied to the credit crisis.

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The Big Flaw of the CDS Big Bang
May 07, 2009 @ 15:00 PM | By Kevin McPartland

By Kevin McPartland Is the CDS Big Bang setting us up for another Big Bust? Did we just give billion-dollar matches to people now pouring gas onto over-insured assets? Is anyone out there watching this - or does the thought of reading about credit default swap regulation put people to sleep at their own peril? Wake up....

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The Sky Didn't Fall on Lehman Swaps, Yet (audio)
October 24, 2008 @ 07:13 AM | By Gregory MacSweeney

Hundreds of billions in losses were expected from Lehman Brothers' credit default mess. But the reality wasn't so disastrous after all -- more like $5 billion.

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Buy Side Still Laissez-Faire About Derivatives Processing
April 03, 2008 @ 10:23 AM | By Penny Crosman

La plus ca change, la plus c'est la meme chose -- when I mix my eighth-grade-level French with a report the Aite Group released this morning on buy-side OTC derivatives processing, this is what I come up with. As we reported last summer, sell-side firms (with a major push from the Fed) are working hard to automate derivatives processing; but buy-side firms are not.

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Columbus Avenue Chooses SuperDerivatives As Independent Platform for Valuing Credit Derivatives
January 23, 2008 @ 13:07 PM | By Ivy Schmerken

Hedge fund administrator Columbus Avenue Consulting, LLC, selected the Super Derivatives Credit derivatives platform, SD-CD, to price its hedge fund clients' portfolios of credit default swaps. The decision points to a growing demand for independent valuation sources, as hedge fund portfolios are hedging or placing bets on the fixed-income market using credit default swaps or indexes.

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Markit to Acquire Swapswire to Fortify OTC Derivatives Processing Infrastructure
December 05, 2007 @ 12:42 PM | By Ivy Schmerken

UK data supplier Markit announced an agreement to acquire Swapswire, an electronic trade confirmation network backed by dealers for processing OTC derivatives.

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