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The Tradeweb Markets TW SEF and DW SEF platforms will be live on October 2 for credit default swap indexes and interest rate swaps. Recently, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has extended the applicability of Swap Execution Facility (SEF) rules for customers that may be trading on our SEFs until November 1.

For the third year running, Tradeweb has been named Best Fixed Income Trading Platform at the Financial News Awards for Excellence in Trading and Technology, Europe 2013.

LCH.Clearnet added two new tools to their SwapClear website to help swaps market participants keep up with some of the latest regulatory developments. Click through the links below to try them out:

The CFTC announced that the mandate within Dodd-Frank requiring swap dealers and market participants to begin clearing certain index CDS and IRS trades went into effect Monday.

A February 24-25 general election in Italy ended with no clear winners and a significant advance for anti-austerity sentiment, unsettling financial markets around the world with renewed fear of Europe’s debt crisis.

While the debate over the Chicago Mercantile Exchange’s proposed Rule 1001 has, in some cases, been mischaracterized as a battle between the CME and DTCC, nothing could be further from the truth.

The Securities and Exchange Commission faces ideological differences with the CFTC and international regulators in implementing Dodd-Frank reforms. But the SEC’s slow, deliberate approach to rulemaking affords the global swaps market a safer transition from opaque to transparent.

U.S. Treasuries endured a significant selloff in January, coming under pressure in a month which showed some modestly upbeat signs on the U.S. economy, a temporary solution to the U.S. debt ceiling standoff and a shift into riskier assets that helped push the S&P 500 to its highest level in more than five years.

The free market is about taking risks to harvest opportunities, and our capital markets are about investment, reward and competition – not fairness.

The new era of swaps trading may compel firms to take a new look at the way they build out infrastructures and workflows.