Clearing
EU seeks to offer reassurance on Brexit clearing exemption
Commission can act quickly to stave off no-deal market disruption, insists official
CFTC refuses to budge on margin treatment of SMAs
Asset managers must agree new protocols for dealing with margin shortfalls in SMAs by September 2020
FCA chief calls for EU to extend Brexit clearing exemption
Bailey also urges EU to grant equivalence determinations for UK trading venues
LCH sets €STR swap clearing launch date
Clearing house to offer the swaps from October 21, discounted at Eonia
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Clearing bank of the year: JP Morgan
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Clearing house of the year: JSCC
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Eurex to launch cross-currency swap clearing ‘within weeks’
Clearing service will target dealer-to-dealer trades before later rolling out to clients
SOFR discounting switch splits Goldman and JP Morgan
CFTC committee calls on clearing houses to align timing and compensation mechanisms
Brexit flips LCH-Eurex basis
LCH-Eurex basis has inverted on buy-side flows, hitting –1.3bp at July low
JSCC member default fund contributions fall to ¥676bn in Q2
Default fund contributions shrink 19%, but members’ initial margin payments climb
An old fight over margin protections rears its head
CFTC rules on margin and loss limits for separate accounts are being torn up for asset managers
JSCC turns to cash in rejig of liquidity reserve
Clearing house withdraws ¥29.9 billion from repo market
Span 2: a fine balance
Switching margin model means walking a tightrope of competing interests amid regulatory scrutiny
A look under the hood of Span 2, CME’s new margin engine
VAR-based framework has new ways of netting contracts and setting volatility floors and more
CME no longer looking back to Lehman
Changes to rates margin model move CCP into line with rivals
Cleared swaps surge $6.6trn at US G-Sibs in Q2
Cleared swaps accounted for 54% of G-Sib notionals in Q2
Carney: Germany and France risk Brexit derivatives cliff edge
BoE governor says it is in EU countries’ “interest” to ensure full viability of financial contracts pre-Brexit
Two US dealers grow appetite for counterparty risk
JP Morgan sees risk weight of portfolio climb to 41.5%
CME-LCH basis collapses amid rates downturn
Brexit and recent LCH initial margin raise could also be factors
CurveGlobal and the curious case of the lost open interest
One-third short sterling plunge in open interest on CurveGlobal may signal more capital-sensitive times
Most active CDS users get biggest savings – research
CFTC economists see benefits to having many counterparties since move to Sef trading
UK banks added OTC notionals in 2018 as EU peers cut back
Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds, Standard Chartered increased notionals by almost €15 trillion
Splits emerge over ‘pre-cessation’ fallback triggers
CCPs say cleared swaps will move to new rates if Libor is no longer representative of markets