Clearing
Review of 2011: collateral, capital and chaos
Collateral, capital and chaos
LCH.Clearnet appoints new CEO of CDSClear
UK-based clearer appoints Markit's former fixed-income director as chief executive of CDS clearing service
Change to Japan clearing mandate ends LCH-JSCC talks
A decision to limit the scope of Japan's clearing mandate has torpedoed months of partnership talks between LCH.Clearnet and the Japan Securities Clearing Corporation
Despite hurdles, clearers map out forex ambitions
Clearing a way for forex
CFTC urged to rethink rules that threaten cross-margining
Pushed to the margins
Dealers face up to OTC clearing's tech revolution
All systems go
Multiple local CCPs better than one global super-CCP – Siddhartha Roy profile
The beauty of diversity
Risk.net poll: G-20 will not meet deadline for OTC derivatives reforms
The vast majority of respondents to a Risk.net poll do not believe G-20 members will meet the end-2012 deadline for all standardised OTC derivatives to be cleared through CCPs
More clarity needed over commodities clearing in Europe
Not yet in the clear
Basel proposals reduce need to sign guaranteed portability agreements
Changes to bank capital rules on CCP exposures remove the need for bank clients to enter into contractual agreements to port trades to other clearing members
CFTC urged to rethink rules that threaten cross-margining
The cross-product margining maze
Despite hurdles, clearers map out forex ambitions
Clearing hurdles
Margin minutiae at issue in Jefferies v IDCG suit
Mire in margin minutiae
Block trade allocations: FCMs and CCPs prepare for new regime
Block around the clock
In defence of cross-product margining
In defence of cross-product margining
Dealers face up to OTC clearing's tech revolution
Clearing the way for IT
CFTC analysis of Dodd-Frank costs 'non-existent', says Sommers
Costs and benefits of proposals were not properly studied, according to CFTC commissioner Jill Sommers - a failing that could expose its rules to legal challenges, lawyers warn
Hong Kong to start OTC derivatives clearing and reporting in January 2013 – HKMA's Lau
Hong Kong will “tentatively” introduce centralised clearing and reporting for OTC derivatives in January 2013, said Edmond Lau, HKMA executive director, at the Isda Asia-Pacific Conference 2011
ECB threatens to stop trading swaps with US counterparties
ECB invokes US legal amendment providing it with broad immunities and says it might stop using US dealers unless granted exemptions from Dodd-Frank Act rules
BofE's Tucker: weak CCP recovery plans risk mayhem
Panellists at an EC conference in Brussels this morning warned CCPs have made little progress on detailed survival plans - leaving the system exposed