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In a speech to the DerivOps North America 2015 conference, Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Timothy Massad spoke about the future of swaps market regulation.

On one hand, the European Commission is concerned that variation margin requirement for European pension funds in the event of an upward move in rates is so large that the repo market couldn’t handle it.

In a new white paper, CFTC Commissioner J. Christopher Giancarlo analyzes flaws in the CFTC’s implementation of its swaps trading regulatory framework under Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Act and proposes a more effective alternative.

Market making in swaps is a business in the midst of significant change. Regulatory drivers are increasing cost and complexity; and while central clearing has helped, it has not yet simplified the business to one which is automated, high-volume and low cost.

In a speech to the Futures Industry of America, CFTC Chairman Timothy Massad discussed current and future regulation of derivatives.

Lets start with On SEF USD IRS plain vanilla volumes by month in SDRView Res.

Bid yields on 10-year benchmark U.S. Treasury bonds touched their lowest levels of 2013, today, hitting an intra-day yield of 1.651% at 10:46 AM ET.

Everyone within the institutional capital markets knows that we exist in a hyper-sensitive, latency-dependent world in which time is no longer measured in minutes or seconds, but milliseconds and microseconds.

Investor fears over continuing geopolitical tensions and the sustainability of economic recovery have been mounting up in the second half of 2014.

Earlier today, Greenwich Associates released a new report entitled “The SEF Landscape: Beyond the Numbers,” highlighting the key areas of focus in U.S. derivatives trading.