Sophis, a provider of portfolio and risk management solutions, says a survey of risk professionals shows that they expect at least 50% of their CDS trades will move from OCT to exchange-cleared platforms and 73% said that that next generation clearing houses for CDSs are absolutely necessary to improve credit trading
“The finance industry is clearly [...]

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Chicago is definitely the Second City for most people working on Wall Street, as suggested by that famous New Yorker cover showing a native’s view of the world west of the Hudson as an alien wasteland.
But the Chicago Tribune says that the city’s futures markets have flourished, in part because they don’t do OTC trades [...]

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