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Tuesday, 13 March 2018 - 1.00pm
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Faculty of Law, B16

Speaker: Steven Schwarcz (Stanley A. Star Professor of Law & Business, Duke University)

Post-financial-crisis regulation requires that derivatives contracts be cleared and settled through central counterparties, such as clearing houses affiliated with derivatives and commodities exchanges, in order to try to reduce systemic risk in the financial system. This seminar asks whether regulators should also require the central clearing of non-derivative financial contracts. The seminar will begin by discussing central clearing of financial contracts and its ability to reduce systemic risk. We'll then examine the regulatory and economic efficiency implications, both for current requirements to centrally clear derivatives contracts and thereafter for analyzing whether to extend central clearing to non-derivative financial contracts.

3CL runs the 3CL Travers Smith Lunchtime Seminar Series, featuring leading academics from the Faculty, and high-profile practitioners. For more information on past events including recordings, please refer to the Centre activities page.

For all seminars in B16, lunch will be available beforehand in the Basement atrium area. There is no charge for lunch or to attend the seminar.

Enquiries to: 3cl@law.cam.ac.uk

Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law

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