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Mark MariottiChief Executive OfficerFuture Management Holdings Inc

The risk of heavy outflows versus reality of transparancy

March 19, 2009

Analysis of:Swiss warn lifting secrecy ‘will take time’ | www.ft.com

Most of the financial community has demanded transparency within publicly traded corporate organizations - which seems appropriate if the public is to risk capital and buy stock of these equities. Now it seems the next directive is following the actual capital and making the global banking repositories provide transparency as well. Switzerland had succumbed to pressure on easing bank secrecy, but the full automatic exchange of tax information, as demanded by countries such as Germany, remained out of the question for Switzerland.

Patrick YoungFounder and ChairmanDerivatives Vision

Polish Government Hit The Right Note With IMF

March 19, 2009

Analysis of:Poland needs no IMF credit, wants to lend to IMF-finmin | www.forbes.com

Polish Finance Minister Jacek Rostowski pulls another excellent stroke in his efforts to demonstrate that Poland may be surviving in the face of a pan-western ignorance about the granular differences of CEE and SEE economies.

Patrick YoungFounder and ChairmanDerivatives Vision

ICE Makes A Sound CDS Clearing Start

March 19, 2009

Analysis of:Intercontinental Clears $7.15 Billion in Credit Swaps (Update2) - Bloomberg.com | www.bloomberg.com

The ICE CDS facility is open for business and even has business to transact! - That's an interesting development in the CDS market and one which will leave competitors such as CME, EUREX and LIFFE somewhat green with envy.

Patrick YoungFounder and ChairmanDerivatives Vision

Serbian Wisdom May Not Make Much Impact On The West

March 19, 2009

Analysis of:Serbian bank chief attacks reliance on EU | www.ft.com

Serbia's Central Bank Chief correctly ruminates on EU reliance while observing the need for internal economic reform that often citizens are more comfortable with than the political classes.

Patrick YoungFounder and ChairmanDerivatives Vision

BATS Looks To Mifid Europe As a New MTF Playground

March 18, 2009

Analysis of:BATS Goes Live With AboveNet - Pan-European Trading Platform Partners With AboveNet For Fast, Secure Connectivity In The UK | www.mondovisione.com

BATS went rapidly from zero to hero in the crowded US MTF marketplace. Now it is seeking to replicate this success within the european Mifid marketplace.

Patrick YoungFounder and ChairmanDerivatives Vision

NYSE Arca Europe Joins A Crowded Field Fighting For Less Volume

March 10, 2009

Analysis of:NYSE Euronext launches new Europe trading platform | www.dealingwithtechnology.com

NYSE Arca Europe may have gallopped into the market at just the wrong moment to see a major breakthrough as volumes decline in European equities.

Patrick YoungFounder and ChairmanDerivatives Vision

Sprecher's ICE opens the way to A "Closed" Clearing of CDS

March 9, 2009

Analysis of:Bloomberg.com: ICE Starts Credit-Default Swap Clearing in Bid for $400 Million | www.bloomberg.com

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) has muscled its way to the forefront of the CDS clearing issue as a result of their classic opportunistic streak. Their solution may have the dge over other competitors not just as a result of early regulatory permission but also thanks to its more exclusive business model.

Mark MariottiChief Executive OfficerFuture Management Holdings Inc

Tread very carefully

March 9, 2009

Analysis of:HBOS, RBS U.K. Deposits Fell; Government Banks Gained | www.bloomberg.com

The US Senator Dodd has suggested a $500 Billion line of credit for the FDIC.  FDIC chair Shelia Bair has acknowledged a good idea for US depositors would be to continue the higher ($250k) FDIC Insurance limits on depositors bank deposit principal.

Mark MariottiChief Executive OfficerFuture Management Holdings Inc

Business Risk Management First - Before Quant or Qual

March 9, 2009

Analysis of:Deutsche Bank’s Quantitative Team to Leave, Start Hedge Fund | www.bloomberg.com

Some of the The Frankfurt- based bank's DWS funds have recently suspended dividends due to previously exposed risk and current market conditions (1). Further, the Frankfurt- based bank,  will cut risk by shifting resources from areas such as proprietary trading after “unprecedented market conditions revealed some weaknesses” in trading operations. (1) DWS RREEF Real Estate Fund, Inc. (AMEX:SRQ - News) and DWS RREEF Real Estate Fund II, Inc. (AMEX:SRO - News) (the “Funds”) announced today that they will not declare any distributions to common shareholders in March 2009 because market conditions have resulted in a decline in portfolio values causing the Funds to currently not meet the preferred share asset coverage ratio that is a precondition to the declaration of common share distributions under the Investment Company Act of 1940.

Justin HupetPrincipal & Managing PartnerFour Peaks Capital LLC

Canadian Banks: "Steady As She Goes - Weather-Beaten By The Economic Hurricane But Not Broken"

March 6, 2009

Analysis of:Canada banks' long history of steady dividends | www.financialpost.com

Canada's banking system is currently the soundest and most stable in the world.  For those with patience, the ability to foresee past the current environment and have a longer-term time horizon, shares of Canadian banks represent significant value and upside potential.

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