EU extends clearing exemption for pension funds until August 2018

Stephanie Baxter
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Pension funds have been given extra time to prepare for potentially onerous rules requiring their over-the-counter (OTC) derivative transactions to be centrally cleared.

The European Commission further extended schemes' transitional relief from the rules until 16 August 2018, as their exemption was due to expire this August.  Although central clearing rules for ...

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