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End-users will stop using derivatives – Risk.net poll
Proposals to require derivatives users to post initial margin on uncleared trades will cause many end-users to stop using derivatives, say a majority of survey respondents
Stockholm-based TriOptima has designed a way to transfer unclearable risk into a central counterparty. All the company has to do now is convince the world’s regulators to change their rules. By Michael...
The US Federal Reserve Board is proposing to limit exposures to single counterparties at a time when regulation is moving more risk into clearing houses. It’s a clash that needs to be resolved, banks...
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Credit Suisse: Algorithmic gymnastics
Credit value adjustment (CVA) is not just a capital burden – the complexity of the calculations involved is also pushing banks’ processing resources to the limit. With traders needing up-to-date CVA numbers in real time, the industry is frantically...
Risk 25 firms of the future: Central counterparties
Clearing houses are the bit-part actors that find themselves thrust into a leading role – a result of the Group of 20 (G-20) nations pledge to overhaul over-the-counter derivatives markets and untangle the web of bilateral exposures that exists today....
Risk 25 firms of the future: TriOptima
There is still room for big ideas in the over-the-counter derivatives market, but it’s a sign of the times that one of this year’s most creative new ventures is, essentially, an attempt to synthetically clear uncleared OTC products. TriOptima calls...
Relief for dealers as Basel reins in capital for cleared trades
Basel Committee addresses long-standing complaints over default fund exposures and client clearing
US large exposures rule could stop banks trading with RBS
Federal Reserve proposals limiting counterparty risk could put RBS and the UK government in one pot – potentially forcing US banks to cut exposure to both
WGMR margin rules borrow heavily from US proposals
Working group publishes proposed margin rules for uncleared trades – bringing global rules in line with an earlier US proposal
Prices diverge as CVA exemption remains in limbo
Dealers face pricing headache as they wait to see whether Europe's version of Basel III will exempt corporate customers from the CVA capital charge
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