January 22, 2015
Partner Rita Molesworth spoke at 2015 Derivatives and Future Law Committee Meeting.
Rita Molesworth served as a panelist on the topic of "Financial and Non-Financial End Users." This panel reviewed the following issues:
- End user perspectives on clearing house risks;
- Key concerns raised by the CFTC’s proposed margin regime for uncleared swaps;
- Swap clearing exemption for treasury affiliates; other issues impacting corporate hedging activity
- CPO/CTA developments and issues, including the commodity pool vortex, US person definition(s), delegation of CPO responsibilities;
- Best execution implications of the LIBOR and FX settlements and the multiplicity of futures and swaps execution/clearing alternatives;
- Volumetric option guidance and other product definition issues;
- ISDA 2014 Resolution Stay Protocol and other documentation issues; and
- OCR reporting
