A recent speech by Benoit Coeuré, a member of the ECB Board of Executives, sheds… Read more Why regulatory transparency doesn’t get the “all-clear”

The global nature of the derivatives market has long enabled users to manage their risk… Read more Market fragmentation is becoming a reality

Europe is about to take another big step on the road to over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives… Read more The road to reporting consistency

Eight months on from the much-heralded “path forward” agreement that set a roadmap for how… Read more Progress, of a sort

As surprises come, it should have been a non-event. On March 18, Swedish clearing house… Read more The euro swaps surprise

In the years since the financial crisis, an important point about derivatives has often been… Read more End-user angst in Munich

The semiannual over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives statistics published by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) have… Read more An Outstanding Question

What do we mean when we say a financial instrument is liquid? That it trades… Read more A MIFID brainteaser: define liquidity

ISDA CEO Bob Pickel reflects on his nearly 17 years in senior positions at ISDA… Read more Parting Thoughts

The derivatives world is full of acronyms. CDS, IRS, CCP, CVA. The list goes on…. Read more LSOC it to Me