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Wells Fargo: late entrant to the OTC clearing race
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On lists of the top US futures clearers, one big US bank is conspicuous by its absence. Wells Fargo was ranked fourth by assets in the US according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation as of September...
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With just one year to go until the end-2012 deadline set by the Group of 20 (G-20) nations for all standardised over-the-counter derivatives to be cleared, a number of uncertainties remain – not least,...
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Lance Uggla, chief executive of Markit, pauses a moment and opens a door: “You should see this,” he says. It’s impossible to know what lies behind that door, but the financial information services...
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Clearing house of the year: LCH.Clearnet
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On the face of it, 2011 saw more disappointments than triumphs for LCH.Clearnet. Efforts to expand its interest rate swap clearing business, SwapClear, were slowed by tensions in some jurisdictions between the desire to have a locally domiciled central...
How the CCP location debate helped split the EU
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The European Central Bank’s insistence that all euro clearing take place within the eurozone was at the heart of December’s row between the UK and the rest of the European Union. David Cameron was feted by some for his defence of London’s financial...
Conservatives take CCPs to heart after UK/EU split
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David Cameron's demand for the UK to be exempt from an ECB policy on clearing houses helped prompt last month's split with the EU - and is earning applause from eurosceptic Conservatives
MF Global: lessons for OTC from a futures clearing calamity
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Writing to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in November 2010, the general counsel of MF Global highlighted what the firm saw as a key risk in the shift to central clearing for over-the-counter derivatives – the danger that smaller firms...
Review of 2011: collateral, capital and chaos
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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 stories
JSCC still keen on CCP interoperability
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Takeshi Hirano, director of strategic planning and over-the-counter derivatives clearing services at the JSCC, talks to Ramya Jaidev
Change to Japan clearing mandate ends LCH-JSCC talks
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A decision to limit the scope of Japan's clearing mandate has torpedoed months of partnership talks between LCH.Clearnet and the Japan Securities Clearing Corporation
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