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Hedging is Not Meant to be Front-Page News
2012-05-14
Since hedging is our core business, we at Chatham Financial certainly hope the lesson the world takes away from these revelations is something like “Hedging is something you really need to do properly, or else you could make headlines for all… Read More  

To Clear or Not to Clear …
2012-02-15
The clearinghouse CME has announced that it is now accepting corporate bonds as initial margin for cleared trades …… Read More  

European Regulator Indicates Margin on FX Trades May Be Required
2012-02-15
Comments from ESMA’s (European securities regulator) chief Steven Maijoor indicated that the Europeans will apply margin requirements to FX trades …… Read More  

OTC Derivatives Regulatory Reform – Singapore Style
2012-02-15
Singapore has released its proposal for OTC derivatives regulatory reform … Singapore currently holds 1.5% of the world swap market…. Read More  

EU Property Sector Commissioned Study Estimates EUR 64.9 Billion Of Impact From Proposed EU Derivatives Regulation
2010-11-23
Proposed EU rules on derivatives could take an estimated EUR 64.9 billion of working capital away from Europe’s real economy … Read More  

AIFMD’s Passage and Its Implications On Derivatives Regulation
2010-11-15
After more than a year of political and legislative wrangling over the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD), the EU Parliament … Read More  

Comments on FASB’s Proposal on Financial Instruments and Hedge Accounting
2010-10-04
We recently provided our views to the FASB on its controversial proposal to modify the accounting for financial instruments… Read More  

Over the Counter Derivatives Reform: Preparing for a Changing Marketplace
2010-09-27
This week I had the privilege of moderating a panel at an event sponsored by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce… Read More  

Overview of Key Issues from EU Derivatives Published Proposal
2010-09-21
After more than a year of incubation, the European Commission has finally released a draft proposal of its derivatives legislation on September 15th, 2010… Read More  

Global Focus: Update on the European Derivatives Debate
2010-09-10
With the US having wrapped up the derivatives legislative debate, it is now Europe’s turn. Meanwhile, Asian governments like Hong Kong and Singapore have remained fairly quiet… Read More  

President Signs Landmark Legislation that Transforms the Derivatives Markets
2010-07-22
Yesterday President Obama signed into law the most sweeping set of financial regulations since the 1930s. As an indication of the scope of… Read More  

Congress Ready to Pass Historic Legislation – Highlights from the Derivatives Title
2010-07-06
When Congress returns from recess the week of July 12th, the Senate is expected to pass legislation enacting the most sweeping set of regulations for the financial services… Read More  

Preliminary Analysis of House-Senate Conference on OTC Derivatives Title
2010-06-25
Early Friday morning, negotiators for House and Senate reached a compromise on the OTC derivatives bill. The “conference report” which reflects this compromise will be sent next week… Read More  

Moderate Democrats, NYC Mayor Bloomberg Weigh In On Derivatives Legislation
2010-06-17
The New Democrat Coalition, a group of 69 moderate and pro-growth Democratic members of the House of Representatives, is circulating a letter that expresses strong support… Read More  

The Case for End User Amendments
2010-05-14
Senate action on OTC derivatives is anticipated to wrap-up this week. Among issues that observers of the debate are keeping a close eye on is a provision (“section 716”) which would require banks to spin-off their swaps desks. Despite calls to … Read More  

Amendment Voting Underway – Still Time to Influence Senators
2010-05-10
Last week, we shared 9 improvements we would like to see in the Senate derivatives legislation. We’ve felt bold enough to do this in large part because there is so much agreement from… Read More  

The Business Community Virtually United — Plus Others Joining In Agreement
2010-05-10
Many voices are joining in arguing for a similar public policy response – centered around effectively controlling systemic risk, providing information to regulators & market participants, … Read More  

Nine Improvements Needed in the Senate Agriculture/Banking OTC Derivatives Bill
2010-04-28
Title VII of the Wall Street Transparency and Accountability Act of 2010 (“the bill”) now reflects the merger of the bills reported out of the Senate Agriculture and Senate Banking committees… Read More  

Three Derivatives Bills Still Standing
2010-04-23
The Senate Banking and the Senate Agriculture Committees have each reported their derivatives… Read More  

OTC Regulatory Reform: Senate Action Imminent
2010-04-20
According to media reports, the White House’s “political arm” has wrested control of the debate on… Read More  

Welcome
2010-03-26
I want to welcome you to Chatham’s new website. One of the reasons that we chose to re-design our website was that over the past several years … Read More