Industry urged to fight equity derivatives trade confirmation backlog

Regulators hope to repeat their success in reforming practices in the credit derivatives market.

Mario Draghi, governor of the Bank of Italy
Draghi: uncertain of the scale of the confirmations problem

After successfully tackling the problem of unconfirmed trades in the credit derivatives markets, regulators have switched their attention to equity derivatives. “We suspect that there may be a lack of confirmations [in the equity derivatives market] just as there has been in other [derivative] markets, but we do not know the scale and age of the problem yet,” said Mario Draghi, governor of the Bank of Italy, speaking in Paris at the OECD’s financial stability forum on September 6.

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