Collateralisation
Review of 2011: collateral, capital and chaos
Whether pricing a plain vanilla swap or agreeing to raise the US debt ceiling, apparently simple acts proved surprisingly difficult this year. Risk magazine staff look back at some of the year’s big...
The extraterritorial application of US uncleared margin proposals will make it tough for US banks to compete with their foreign counterparts in swaps business unless the proposals are copied by regulators...
Disputes over the valuation of trades backed by multi-currency credit support annex (CSA) agreements – allowing counterparties to post collateral in multiple currencies and assets – have pushed the...
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Corporates fear CVA charge will make hedging too expensive
Uncollateralised trades will consume up to four times more capital under Basel III, dealers say. If that translates into a similar jump in pricing, corporates believe they may have to hedge less. Michael Watt reports
Bank of England's FPC seeks to unlock Basel III tool-kit
Systemic risk committee at the Bank of England calls for power to use tools - such as liquidity and leverage ratios, and margin standards - to influence systemic risk
Profile: JP Morgan's Pinto on margin rules, Volcker and the costs of...
Post-crisis reforms will reduce leverage and squeeze returns, but JP Morgan’s Daniel Pinto is worried about two strands of regulation in particular, he tells Duncan Wood – margin for uncleared trades and the Volcker rule
Foreign regulators leave US isolated on uncleared margin rules
The extraterritorial application of US uncleared margin proposals will make it tough for US banks to compete with their foreign counterparts unless the proposals are copied by regulators elsewhere. That’s not going to happen quickly, if at all. By Matt...
Standard CSA: Industry's solution to novation bottleneck gets nearer
Disputes over the valuation of trades backed by multi-currency credit support annex (CSA) agreements – in other words, those that allow counterparties to post collateral in multiple currencies and assets – have pushed the industry to develop a new...
Irish debt office agrees to collateralise derivatives
The NTMA follows Portugal's debt office in adopting two-way collateralisation - but unlike Portugal it appears it will have to post cash
Inter-affiliate trades face threat from clearing, execution, margin...
Inter-affiliate trades under US rules may be subject to the same clearing, execution and uncleared margin requirements as other derivatives – making them expensive, or even impossible. Dealers are also grappling with how the rules will dovetail with...
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