Tag: SIFMA

BIS announces key appointments in Singapore and Switzerland
October 02, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

SIFMA’s Board of Directors announces newly elected officers

The Board of Directors of Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) has just announced it has elected the following principal officers to leadership positions on the Board for 2019: Chair: James R. Allen, Chairman & CEO, Hilliard Lyons Chair-Elect: William C. Caccamise, General Counsel of Global Banking, Global Markets, and International, Bank of America…

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June 13, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

SIFMA terminates Auction Rate Securities Indices

The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) has announced that it will wind down the publication of its suite of SIFMA Auction Rate Securities Indices. To do so in an orderly fashion with proper notice to the market, each time the number of issues included in an index decreases to ten, SIFMA will post…

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March 15, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

CME Group to serve as administrator for MAC swaps contract

Derivatives marketplace operator CME Group Inc (NASDAQ:CME) announced that it will serve as the administrator for SIFMA Asset Management Group's (AMG) Market Agreed Coupon (MAC) swap contract, which was previously administered by SIFMA. MAC swaps are interest rate swap (IRS) contracts with pre-defined, market-agreed terms developed by SIFMA AMG and ISDA in 2013. CME Group…

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