When the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced an agreement with European participants to allow over the counter (OTC) SWAPs trading on foreign exchanges, as reported yesterday in ValueWalk, those knowledgeable of the vast power behind the largest Wall Street bank’s lobbying machine were skeptical. After all, the recently reform-minded and now former CFTC Chairman Gary Gensler, who was said to have fallen out of favor with the Washington power elite due to his new-found gusto for financial reform of toxic derivatives, had just fought an aggressive if losing battle to keep U.S. banks trading on U.S. regulated Self Execution…
Reformer Supports CFTC SWAPs Negotiation With Caveats
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.