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On this Ropes & Gray podcast, asset management attorneys Egan Cammack and Lindsey Jones highlight a few key topics for buy-side corporate derivatives…

I think there are concerns out there, but i don't know that they're not concerns that can't be addressed. the derivatives market, i mean, transparency is critically important and i think that there needs to be an end-user exemption in that that makes sense. so we don't have people playing in the marketplace so we have an artificial market out there and really manipulating the marketplace. but that aside, i mean, i think overall if we keep in mind that we need to -- and too big to fail and taxpayer bailouts, put more consumer protection into the marketplace and add some transparency to it, if w...

To be out there. there is the ability to have an end-user exemption on commercial users. and i think when you look at what those orange growers or those natural gas folks or anybody else that is a commercial end-user that's using 100%. that they're using that to deal with 100% of their commercial risk. as opposed to speculation or anything else. then they're going to find that they're okay in this bill. >> why shouldn't an end-user have to buy their derivatives on an exchange just like end-users of equity derivatives have to buy theirs on an exchange. why aren't they ex-emgted? >> i think quit...