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Insight starts drawing up its own swap agreements

Fund manager is the first buyside house to set out plans for coping with derivatives reform

Insight Investment has become the first asset manager to start arranging its own standardised legal agreements for swap trades, in a move that shows how regulators’ insistence on central clearing is shaking up the derivatives landscape.

Insight says its agreements - which it has drawn up to aid its clients, mostly pension funds - can incorporate the existing industry-standard contracts from the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, but do not have to.

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