05.11.2014 - Hedge Fund, Investor Groups Hammer Swaps ‘Stays’
Hedge funds, insurers and other companies said global regulators shouldn’t implement new rules aimed at protecting the financial system against the failure of big banks. At issue are changes endorsed by global banking regulators that would require banks and investors to give up their contractual rights to terminate swaps contracts with a troubled financial institution. Instead, the firms would have to wait up to 48 hours before seeking to terminate derivatives contracts and collect associated payments from a troubled financial institution. Eighteen of the largest lenders in the U.S., Europe and Asia agreed to the changes in principle last month and global regulators plan to enshrine the changes in new regulation by the end of 2015...............................................Full Article: Source
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