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BlackRock eyes market making
It was huge news when BlackRock let it be known that it was developing an electronic trading platform to facilitate fixed-income trading, one that would cross trades among buyers and sellers directly, disintermediating traditional dealers.
JPMorgan reveals trading revenue details
JPMorgan has taken the unusual step of revealing details about its market making activity, notes Breakingviews .
Banks' tricky bid to take down the Volcker Rule
The chips are down when it comes to the Volcker Rule.The latest comments are in, and federal regulators now have to hustle to sift through them all in order to meet a July 20 deadline for implementing the rule.
Volcker Rule critics threaten legal action
Opponents of the Volcker Rule may have an ace in the hole -- especially if you take seriously an appellate ruling last year that invalidated the so-called proxy rule on grounds that the SEC didn’t perform an adequate cost-benefit analysis.
Volcker Rule’s foreign bond exemption irks other countries
DealBook notes a little discussed exemption in the Volcker Rule, one that has not been well received by other countries. “The rule says that United States banks--and possibly certain foreign...
Complex Volcker rule proposals spawn controversy
Anything that tries to delineate proprietary trades from market-making trades and legitimate hedge trades is going to be complex. You have to give the regulators credit for even taking this on. We're
Fine line between prop trading and market making
The Kweku Adoboli scandal at UBS has highlighted once again the tricky nature of proprietary trading versus market making. In the U.K., there is no Volcker amendment that bans proprietary trading.
