Ice Clear Europe
Ice postpones migration to VAR in bid to improve offsets
Clearing house will move on freight products before energy, as users fret over margin spikes
LME had four-hour operational failure in Q4
First outage on record caused by connectivity issue at LMEmercury
IM surges at LCH following CDS users’ shift from ICEU
Figures for Q3 show 16% jump at Paris-based CDSClear
Clearing members sour further on cash for IM collateral
Sovereign bonds remain preferred choice at top CCPs in Q3
Concentration risk ticks up at large CCPs
Top five clearing members accounted for almost half IM and open positions in Q3
CFTC sounds the alarm on clearing capacity
US regulator warns porting cannot be guaranteed in the event of a large member default
Industry confused by EU’s ‘bingo card’ clearing rules
Uncertainty over definition of representative trades in Emir active account requirement
Hard concentration: clearing members want clarity from CCPs
FCMs complain they struggle to pass opaque margin calculations through to end-clients
New UK clearing rules: same as the old rules?
Clearing experts doubt UK regulation can diverge significantly from Emir and global standards
Final CDS volumes migrate from Ice Clear Europe
Majority of positions re-established at Ice Clear Credit, as transition overcomes hold-out fears
CME, DTCC lead CCPs on operational failures
Analysis of 15 clearing houses shows outages lasting 34 hours in the past year – highest figure since 2019
Traders pin Sonia derivative woes on UK’s local difficulties
Market participants say BoE forecasts and mini-budget help explain RFR products’ lack of liquidity
Narrow path to compromise on EU’s post-Brexit clearing rules
Lawmakers unlikely to support industry demand to delete Emir active accounts proposal altogether
Mystery clearing member delays ICEU’s CDS transition
But Ice is confident open interest will be close to zero when service shuts down in October
Billions in index CDSs remain at ICEU as clearing shutdown looms
Osttra has migrated 77% of index OI, but the rest is mostly held by clients outside its network
Sovereign bonds top choice for IM collateral
Drive towards higher interest-earning assets strongest at CME and LCH among top CCPs
RepoClear’s default fund halves in Q1
Elevated initial margin allows LCH service to scale back second line of defence to lowest point on record
CCPs shun central banks in liquidity buffers rejig
LCH, Ice US and CME lead the way towards commercial banks
The battle to stop energy markets boiling over
European CCPs and supervisors join call for changes to mitigate any repeat of last year’s crisis
Initial margin requirements for IR swaps hit record $325bn
CME, Eurex and LCH report aggregate 10% rise in month marred by most severe crisis since 2008
Ice exec rejects cloud for critical infrastructure
FIA Boca 2023: SVP Bland “can’t imagine” outsourcing critical infrastructure; DRW’s Wilson warns of concentration risk