Specials / Risk magazine
Clearing certainty
It doesn’t seem a lot to ask – when entering into a trade that is legally required to clear, it would be nice to know that the counterparty has access to a clearing house. Unfortunately, what seems like a simple formality is fraught with difficulty. That’s because the vast majority of derivatives...
Isda 27th Annual General Meeting Chicago 2012
To mark the 27th Isda annual general meeting, we consider some of the key regulatory challenges facing market participants – clearing across borders, the extra-territorial implications of Dodd-Frank...
Bank capital
JP Morgan’s Jamie Dimon doesn’t seem like the kind of person that spends a lot of time regretting the fights he picks, but by inviting bank capital modelling to step outside, he has started something...
Margin segregation
As they stand, segregation rules for the cleared over-the-counter derivatives market are a mess. The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) finalised its rules in January, mandating an approach...
Technology
For firms that aim to capitalise on the revamp of over-the-counter derivatives markets, now is no time to arrange a parade. It will probably get rained on. One by one, each of the obvious beneficiaries...
Foreign exchange
Of all the derivatives asset classes destined for central clearing, the outlook for foreign exchange has arguably been subject to most change over the past 12 months – and clearing house offerings have...
Credit
The months that followed the German invasion of Poland in 1939 were quiet in western Europe at least. Troops and equipment were shunted from one place to another, plans were drawn up, the wheels of...
South Africa
They say the squeaky wheel gets the grease, and participants in South Africa's equity markets must have felt their squeaking had paid off in June, when the country's tax authorities not only halted plans...
Buy-side technology
Post-crisis reform of the over-the-counter derivatives market can be boiled down to a single bet: regulators have decided to swap product complexity for structural complexity. Bilateral trades will be...
Emerging markets
In retrospect, the path taken by a crisis often seems entirely predictable. It is easy, now, to draw a line from mass downgrades of structured credit in mid-2007 through the resulting funding and liquidity...
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