Pension funds sign hedge-only agreements with banks

Cardano and PGGM promise not to give banks speculative trades as dealers try to limit complexity of EU’s pension fund clearing exemption

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Pension funds are promising not to execute certain over-the-counter derivatives with some of their dealers to avoid complications arising from Europe's clearing exemption. Trades must reduce a fund's risk in order to qualify for the exemption but some banks say it will be too difficult to identify and separate risk-reducing and non-risk-reducing trades – in addition to the clearing exemption, trades that do not reduce risk are also subject to Basel III's credit valuation adjustment (CVA) charge

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