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U.S. Treasury yields fell following Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen’s remarks that uncertainty in global markets warranted a slower pace of interest rate increases, according to Tradeweb data.

Japanese bonds with longer maturities hit new lows, according to Tradeweb data.

Today, the Bank of Japan’s decided not to pursue additional monetary easing even as it emphasized its readiness to act if warranted.

To encourage a landscape of transparency, the CFTC has announced the initiation of the CFTC Weekly Swaps Report, Chairman Gary Gensler announced Wednesday.

For those who feared that the derivatives industry had had its fill of regulatory debate, there is still plenty of fodder for discussion as the process of Dodd-Frank implementation rolls on.

Tradeweb completed its acquisition of BondDesk Group LLC and we have rebranded our combined retail fixed income division as Tradeweb Direct.

The third calendar week of SEF trading is completed. So, how are the first few weeks of SEF’s trading going? Regulators have been quick to announce that SEF’s have seen a successful start, while industry critics have quickly countered that more time is required to integrate the SEFs and onboard clients.

The launch of swap execution facilities on Oct. 2 was a success in that trading was largely uninterrupted and trade sizes remained in line with the OTC market.

Just two days after the CFTC’s mandatory clearing rules for OTC derivatives went into effect, sparking a litany of industry commentary and a threat from Bloomberg to file suit against the CFTC over swap collateral rules, ISDA is out with a paper making the case for the role of non-cleared OTC derivatives in the global economy.

Alarmed by the impact of the latest financial crisis, regulators globally have released a set of new regulations.