Regulatory Exhaustion: The Market Opportunity Ahead

In 2015, movement of swaps onto clearing platforms is largely a fait accompli, but movement onto exchanges and SEFs and into ETD products like futures and options on futures will require innovation, education and, above all, value that provides an advantage over OTC. While the past several years of regulatory uncertainty may have left the derivatives industry marching in place, TABB Group believes the coming post-Dodd-Frank period portends to be a watershed in innovation and migration for many firms that have been preparing for this opportunity.