For all the appropriate safeguards built into the derivatives regulatory framework after the financial crisis, certain aspects of the reforms impose unnecessary compliance costs and burdens on end users, for little benefit. Regulators in both the US and Europe are now reviewing their rules with an eye to making them more efficient and less complex. By recognizing what works well and what could work better, the objective is to make the regulatory framework stronger and reduce the excessive burdens that discourage trading, investment and hedging.
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