In the past few years, OCC has taken steps to strengthen its resilience through a variety of activities including increasing headcount, working to revamp the clearinghouse’s technology stack and altering margin methodologies, to name a few. In this video, OCC Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Scot Warren talks about the OCC’s new capital management policy.
In this video, DTCC Managing Director and Head of Global Public Policy Mark Wetjen reflects on the Treasury flash crash of 2014 and lays out why more Treasury trading activity should involve a central counterparty. Produced by Mike Forrester ...
The OCC’s ENCORE clearing system, while resilient, is long in the tooth and inflexible. OCC’s Project Renaissance aims to revamp the central counterparty’s data, risk management and clearing systems. The OCC chose Cinnober as a partner for the...
Futures Industry Association (FIA) Hall of Famer Garry Jones talks about how Brexit impacts markets and derivatives trading in this JLN video.
Get a FREE 90 day trial of John Lothian Newsletter First ReadHits & TakesJLN StaffThe FIA is looking for a new VP of Global Industry Operations and Execution to oversee FIA's Operations and market Technology Divisions. Here is a link for...
If Christopher Walken were a derivatives exchange executive, he might be known for the quote, "I got a fever, and the only prescription... is more clearing!" This this week's episode features the following stories: -BusinessWire -> CAT NMS...
First Read Hits & Takes Jenny Knott stepped down as CEO of NEX Optimisation. FIA is hiring two people for its communications department: a director of communications working with senior management to develop, implement and coordinate our overall press and public...
First Read Hits & Takes Students signed up for the MarketsWiki Education Recruiting event on October 16 at the CBOE have come from a number of different universities. The list includes University of Illinois at Chicago, Illinois Tech (formerly IIT), University of...
Lead Stories Options Imply Little Risk of Market Corrections Anytime Soon Myron Scholes and Ash Alankar - Bloomberg A watchful Federal Reserve has created a buoyant environment for equities. The S&P 500 Index is on course for its least volatile year since 1964. On...
The OCC’s new chief security officer talks about risks and prevention. It's alarming and getting ugly. The Equifax hack in March compromised the personal information of an estimated 40 percent of the United States population. The Bangladeshi central bank is down $81...
Lead Stories Fed G-Sib plan threatens 50bp jump in FCM capital Louie Woodall - Risk.net A below-the-radar move to tweak the way the US Federal Reserve assesses systemic risk could force banks to raise billions of dollars in extra capital to support their client...
Lead Stories Weighing the Impact of Proposed Tax Reform on Centrally Cleared Markets FinReg|Alert - Q&A with Craig Donohue, OCC Executive Chairman and CEO Tax reform is climbing back to the top of the White House agenda, with President Donald Trump telling The...
First Read Bits & Pieces By John J. Lothian Later today John Lothian News will be publishing an exclusive video interview with the incoming president and CEO of the National Futures Association, Tom Sexton. Our Jim Kharouf sat down with Sexton in the NFA's offices...
“When I worked at Lehman, periodically people would tell me that I looked like Dick Fuld, and I thought that was pretty cool, especially when I was rising up in the ranks. I don’t find that amusing anymore.” The fall of Lehman Brothers ushered in a period of...
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