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Ice clears €5.9 billion of CDSs in first week
Atlanta-based IntercontinentalExchange’s (Ice) European central clearing facility, Ice Clear Europe, has cleared €5.9 billion of credit default swap (CDS) index trades in its first week of operation....
Eurex will begin clearing European index and single-name credit default swaps (CDS) as of July 30, the exchange said today.
With just two weeks remaining until the European Commission’s deadline for central counterparties (CCPs) to begin clearing credit default swaps (CDSs), two of the competing platforms are still waiting...
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The collapse of Lehman Brothers last year and subsequent focus on counterparty credit risk has raised expectations that a greater proportion of derivatives business will flow through exchanges in future. So far, the reality has been somewhat different....
Ice clears $71 billion of CDSs
Atlanta-based derivatives exchange IntercontinentalExchange (Ice) has cleared $71 billion notional in credit default swaps (CDS) in the four weeks since the launch of its central clearing platform. The exchange cleared 613 transactions and reported open...
Eurex postpones CDS clearing
Frankfurt-based derivatives exchange Eurex will "wait until the market is ready" before it launches its central clearing platform for credit default swaps (CDSs).
Fed approval leaves Ice/TCC on brink of CDS clearing
Intercontinental Exchange's (Ice) application to become a member of the Federal Reserve System has been approved by the US central bank, overcoming one of the final obstacles preventing the firm from launching its central clearing platform for credit...
Banks agree to EU CCP for clearing CDS
Nine major dealers agreed to use an EU central counterparty (CCP) for clearing trades in credit default swaps (CDSs) today, paving the way for talks to resume with the European Commission.
Clearing single-name CDSs may prove uneconomical
High margin requirements may make central clearing of single-name credit default swaps (CDS) impossibly expensive, according to one clearing specialist.
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