Credit default swaps
Fed green lights more capital relief trades
Five US banks authorised to issue repeat credit-linked notes backed by financial guarantees
CDS review seeks to tackle conflicts ‘elephant’
Isda AGM: Linklaters proposes overhaul for determinations committee - including independent members
Traders eye negative CDS-bond basis
Changed market dynamic can be profitable for those firms able to capture it
IM requirements for interest rate swaps up $30bn in December
Latest figures from CME, Eurex and LCH show a trend reversal from previous six months
Judge hits pause on CDS auction-rigging lawsuit
Proceedings now wait for New York court ruling on a separate 2015 settlement’s applicability
IM surges at LCH following CDS users’ shift from ICEU
Figures for Q3 show 16% jump at Paris-based CDSClear
Concentration risk ticks up at large CCPs
Top five clearing members accounted for almost half IM and open positions in Q3
UK tiptoes away from Europe on bank CDS transparency
Only a small number of instruments are affected, but some worry it will distort competition
Industry confused by EU’s ‘bingo card’ clearing rules
Uncertainty over definition of representative trades in Emir active account requirement
Derivatives house of the year: JP Morgan
Risk Awards 2024: Response to regional banking crisis went far beyond First Republic
SEC expected to protect CRT in conflicts of interest rule
Decision could come as early as today; high hopes for credit risk transfer exemption
Welcome to a new ecosystem for managing credit risk
How Eurex is using credit index futures to build the next frontier for exchange-traded derivatives
Final CDS volumes migrate from Ice Clear Europe
Majority of positions re-established at Ice Clear Credit, as transition overcomes hold-out fears
ECB wading into active account dispute on clearing – industry
Industry lobbyists decry secretive (allegedly ECB) non-paper that recommends high minimum thresholds
US funds add to single-name CDS positions
Counterparty Radar: Corporate positions exceed SSA contracts for first time on record in Q2
Vue gives private credit another reason to shun CDSs
Lenders prefer to hold risk themselves and recent issues suggest incompatibility with private markets
RBC’s credit derivatives book grows fourfold on market-making push
Notionals of credit protection sold and purchased have ballooned 236% and 382% respectively since October 2022
LCH SA’s default funds hit record highs
CCP’s own contributions account for less than 1% across three clearing services
Europe’s lenders sail into uncharted waters of the banking book
Regulators are pushing banks to map their credit spread risk. Here be dragons?
Market eyes emerging market CDS index expansion
Participants hope changes will help transform single-name volumes into greater index activity
Narrow path to compromise on EU’s post-Brexit clearing rules
Lawmakers unlikely to support industry demand to delete Emir active accounts proposal altogether