Capital Markets Advisors

Friday, January 23rd, 2015 by GEORGE BOLLENBACHER A recent white paper by the CME entitled Clearing – Balancing CCP and Member Contributions with Exposures brings into sharper focus a debate that has been raging under the surface of the markets, about whether the introduction of mandatory clearing for swaps has concentrated risk in the CCPs and made them too big to fail. As with any document published by a participant… Read More »

OCREUS Group and Capital Markets Advisors LLC (CMA) are pleased to announce a new partnership arrangement As both of these exciting expanding businesses continue to grow and extend their geographic reach across the financial services sector, the announcement of the partnership of these two sister businesses, formalises the offering structure leveraging the resources, skills, knowledge and local expertise to form a truly global offering to our clients across the global… Read More »

Wednesday, January 7th, 2015 by GEORGE BOLLENBACHER Although the regulators recently postponed some aspects of the covered fund requirements under the Volcker Rule (VR), there was no change in the proprietary trading requirements. As of now they still kick in on July 21, 2015. Meanwhile, some of the regulators have already begun examining banks on their preparations for compliance. Based on those exams, and some instructions issued by one of… Read More »