Tag: interest rate swaps

July 19, 2017 BY admin

CME announces 1st cleared Korean Won & Indian Rupee interest rate swaps

CME Group, the global derivatives exchange, and marketplace, today announced it has cleared two new swap currencies: the Indian Rupee (INR) Overnight Index Swaps (OIS) and Korean Won (KRW) Interest Rate Swaps (IRS). With these two new additional currencies, CME Group now offers 21 clearable OTC IRS currencies. Sean Tully, Senior Managing Director of Financial…

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April 05, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

KfW chooses Eurex Clearing as CCP for Interest Rate Swaps

KfW expands its business relationship with Eurex Clearing AG, starting central clearing of its Euro denominated interest rate swaps via Eurex Clearing in Frankfurt. Central clearing of derivatives transactions significantly increases the safety and stability of the financial system. Central Counterparties calculate risks in real-time and demand adequate collat-eral. Moreover, they guarantee settlement of transactions.…

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June 02, 2016 BY Mike Fox

CME Group granted license to clear non-Yen interest Rate swaps in Japan

CME Group (NASDAQ: CME), the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, announced that Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (CME) has been formally granted the status of Foreign Clearing Organisation (FCO) by the Prime Minister of Japan on 1 June 2016. With this FCO status, the clearing house division of CME, CME Clearing, is now able to clear non-Yen interest rate swaps on behalf…

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January 28, 2016 BY Mike Fox

trueEX completes first electronic Mexican peso swap trades for institutional investors

trueEX, the first exchange approved by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) as a Designated Contract Market (DCM) for swaps has created another industry innovation with the execution of the first dealer to client Mexican peso (MXN) interest rate swaps trades on its award-winning platform. Societe Generale Corporate and Investment Bank (SGCIB), and undisclosed institutional investors…

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January 19, 2016 BY Mike Fox

EurexOTC Clear offers new incentive programme “Expand Liquidity”

Eurex Clearing announced the offering of a new incentive programme called “Expand Liquidity” which grants fee incentives to all Clearing Members and Registered Customers for their OTC Interest Rate Swap business. The new incentive programme “Expand Liquidity” follows the recently expired incentive programmes “EMIR Readiness” and “On-boarding incentive programme” which offered a fee discount resp.…

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