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McCreevy: enough foot-dragging on CDS, I will legislate


Charlie McCreevy, the European commissioner for internal market and services, has decided to make central counterparty (CCP) clearing mandatory for credit default swaps because, as his spokesperson told FOi, there “wasn’t a clear commitment from industry”.

The spokesperson...

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