Entries tagged "International Swaps and Derivatives Association"
As Wall Street looks ahead to a new year sure to be filled with new regulation (and probably a healthy dose of turmoil), dealmakers gathered at a conference Thursday to discuss one of the most controversial topics of the financial crisis ... credit default swaps.Robert Pickel, executive director and CEO of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, kicked off Crowell & Moring LLP's Credit Default Swaps: Exploring the Controversy Market Forces, Litigation, Regulation, Accounting & Tax conference with a spirited defense of the much maligned derivatives. ...