KOR, a trade data processing and management platform for derivatives markets, has been registered by the primary U.S. derivatives regulator, CFTC, as a licensed regulatory Swap Data Repository (“SDR”) for all asset classes and client segments. This is the first such approval granted by the CFTC since 2014, and the first cloud-native SDR. It comes eight months ahead of a critical compliance deadline in the U.S., intended to harmonize the entire derivatives reporting infrastructure. The...