Cleared SWAPs – Where is product innovation in financial services going to come from? A panel of bank and independent hedge fund and market maker experts agree that cleared derivatives have become a logical path to the future, but the question is: when will it happen? Despite what participants recognized as advantages, there still has yet to be a “liquidity pop” in cleared versus non-cleared SWAP derivatives, JPMorgan’s Nick Rustad noted at the 32nd Annual FIA Futures and Options Expo. Regulations are making non-cleared SWAPs capital iinefficient Non-cleared derivatives rules and the capital inefficiency that has been created are “starting…
FIA Panel Ponders Why Cleared SWAP Derivatives Are Not More Popular
Mark Melin
Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.