Margin
OCC on the hook for $4bn if member defaults
Clearing house’s liquidity resources hit $7.9 billion in Q1
CCP margin buffers too big, research suggests
Procyclicality calculations should depend on expected spikes in volatility, argue Ice risk experts
At Ice Clear US, largest margin breach on record
The clearing house last reported a margin shortfall in Q2 2017
Quadruple witching triggers $1.5bn VM call at CME Clearing
Peak VM call was 56% bigger than the one in Q4 2018
Ice, CME set to launch new VAR models in early 2020
Bourses plan to switch margining of energy futures at different times, prompting speculation of “arbitrage opportunities”
LCH RepoClear posts £23m margin breach
Five backtesting exceptions reported for 18-month period to end-March
Greenwich Associates Publishes New TCA Study
FX Options in the Age of Uncleared Margin Rules
Eurex made €525m VM call in Q1
Margin call equivalent to 2% of CCP’s own liquidity resources
Capitalab completes first compression run with SGX
Compression efficiency in SGX Nikkei 225 options could be as high as 50%, Capitalab says
A helping hand – Addressing industry concerns
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s final revisions to the FRTB guidelines aim to address industry concerns around complexity and capital implications. A forum of industry leaders discusses whether the changes have been effective and how banks…
HKEX boosts member credit risk monitoring
Hong Kong exchange’s several hundred clearing members pose complex default risk correlations, says chief risk officer
Forex prime brokerage fee jump unlikely, say dealers
HSBC and NatWest say client charges unlikely to rise significantly despite new margin costs
At FICC, 20 margin breaches in Q1
The clearing house posted 157 margin breaches for the 12-month period ending in March
Outsourcers, IM delay and machine learning
The week on Risk.net, May 25–31, 2019
RJ O’Brien’s chief risk officer on margin models and clearing
CME’s looming switch to VAR model will have pronounced effect on broker and its clients, says Brad Giemza
Talk of delaying IM ‘big bang’ sparks backlash
EC official's recent comments may hamper compliance preparations, dealers say
Initial margin ‘big bang’ could be deferred, says EC’s Pearson
Senior EC official says smaller firms “really struggling” to comply with margin rules
Born again: Citi’s forex prime brokerage
After a $180 million gut-punch, the apex brokerage is now evangelising to amused rivals about the perils of mispricing
SEC may allow wider cross-margining of single-name CDS
Banks want to cross-margin single-name CDS against options, indexes and cash products
Making technology count in a C/ETRM world
As businesses grow, so does their need for modern, agile and cost-effective commodity/energy trading risk management (C/ETRM) solutions. Pioneer Solutions explores how its next-generation, highly configurable C/ETRM systems take advantage of the latest…