Early in November I chaired the FTF DerivOps conference in NY. The conversation in 2014 was a lot more about the market than it was at my first DerivOps in October 2008, when all we spoke about was what was wrong with the OTC derivatives market and what would the regulators do. The event this year was also the day after election day, so the impact of a Republican led Congress was top of mind for everyone. Here is my interview with the FTF folks on what that may (or may not) mean for the derivatives market: