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Daily Archives: April 19, 2015

SEC Implements Dodd-Frank Reporting and Dissemination Rules for Security-Based Swaps

SEC Implements Dodd-Frank Reporting and Dissemination Rules for Security-Based Swaps Posted by Kobi Kastiel, Co-editor, HLS Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, on

“Implementation of the derivatives market reforms contained in Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (Dodd-Frank Act) may fairly be characterized as a herculean effort. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has finalized dozens of new rules to implement Title VII’s provisions governing “swaps.” Although Title VII requires the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC or Commission) to implement similar provisions for “security-based swaps” (SBSs), the SEC’s rulemaking process has lagged the CFTC’s. Earlier this year, the SEC finalized two of its required rules: one (Final Regulation SBSR) governs the reporting of SBS information to registered security-based swap data repositories (SDRs) and related public dissemination requirements; the other covers the registration and duties of SDRs (SDR Registration Rule). Additionally, the SEC published a proposed rule to supplement Final Regulation SBSR that addresses, among other things, an implementation timeframe, the reporting of cleared SBSs and platform-executed SBSs, and rules relating to SDR fees (Proposed Regulation SBSR). Comments on Proposed Regulation SBSR must be submitted to the SEC by May 4, 2015. This post focuses on Final Regulation SBSR and Proposed Regulation SBSR, which create a reporting and public dissemination regime for market participants that engage in SBSs akin to Parts 43, 45 and 46 of the CFTC’s swap regulations. We discuss the key aspects of these rules and how they will affect SBS market participants. Because many market participants have already gone through the implementation process with respect to the CFTC’s swap reporting rules, we also discuss some of the key differences between Final Regulation SBSR and the final CFTC reporting rules: a comparison of the SEC and CFTC rules is contained in a chart at the end of the full publication, available here.”

SV150: Current tech boom is no dot-com bubble, experts say

Silicon Valley’s top public tech companies ranked, in everything from sales to taxes paid. (Dollar figures in millions.)  By Daniel J. Willis, Jeremy C. Owens and Jack Davis / Bay Area News Group – Searchable Database. Patrick May – Mercury News – “Silicon Valley’s tech cup runneth over. Job growth is humming, coders are being… Continue Reading

Guest Editorial: Social media metrics in scholarly communication

Guest Editorial: Social media metrics in scholarly communication, Stefanie Haustein, Cassidy R. Sugimoto, Vincent Larivière (Submitted on 8 Apr 2015). “Social media metrics – commonly coined as “altmetrics” – have been heralded as great democratizers of science, providing broader and timelier indicators of impact than citations. These metrics come from a range of sources, including… Continue Reading

Contextualization of topics – browsing through terms, authors, journals and cluster allocations

Contextualization of topics – browsing through terms, authors, journals and cluster allocations, Rob Koopman, Shenghui Wang, Andrea Scharnhorst (Submitted on 16 Apr 2015). “This paper builds on an innovative Information Retrieval tool, Ariadne. The tool has been developed as an interactive network visualization and browsing tool for large-scale bibliographic databases. It basically allows to gain… Continue Reading

Physics in 100 Years

Physics in 100 Years, Frank Wilczek (Submitted on 26 Mar 2015) “Here I indulge in wide-ranging speculations on the shape of physics, and technology closely related to physics, over the next one hundred years. Themes include the many faces of unification, the re-imagining of quantum theory, and new forms of engineering on small, intermediate, and… Continue Reading

The Regulatory Adventure of the Two Norwood Builders

Davies, Ross E., The Regulatory Adventure of the Two Norwood Builders: Sherlock Holmes Crosses Paths with Congress, the President, the Courts, and the Administrative State, in the Press (April 17, 2015). 2015 Green Bag Almanac & Reader 567. Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2595768 “It was almost certainly some combination of law on the books… Continue Reading

Cyber In-securIty II Closing the Federal Talent Gap

Partnership for Public Service and Booz Allen Hamilton – Cyber In-securIty II Closing the Federal Talent Gap, April 2015. “Technology has changed our lives. Individuals can email, text and talk to each other, take pictures, get directions, watch television, control their home appliances, read the news, play games and manage their schedules using a device that… Continue Reading

Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis

“Mission statement – CAIDA investigates practical and theoretical aspects of the Internet in order to: provide macroscopic insights into Internet infrastructure, behavior, usage, and evolution, foster a collaborative environment in which data can be acquired, analyzed, and (as appropriate) shared, improve the integrity of the field of Internet science, inform science, technology, and communications public… Continue Reading

Shodan is the world’s first search engine for Internet-connected devices

“Explore the Internet of Things Use Shodan to discover which of your devices are connected to the Internet, where they are located and who is using them. See the Big Picture – Websites are just one part of the Internet. There are power plants, Smart TVs, refrigerators and much more that can be found with… Continue Reading