Infrastructure
Credit Risk USA: Direct buy-side clearing 'not feasible'
Added cost and mutualised risk will discourage direct clearing participation, panel concludes
Custody Risk summer 2012
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First person: Passporting central securities depositories
CSDs in harmony?
No improvement in porting since Lehman, CCPs say
The collapse of MF Global last year saw clearing houses struggle to port client collateral to other firms - repeating problems seen after Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy in 2008
Sponsored webinar: BNY Mellon
Data management proves an ominous task
Clearing certainty
In depth: clearing certainty introduction
Push, ping or hub: industry tackles risk of clearing fails
Push, ping or hub
Isda AGM: Gensler confident clearing location requirements will not be imposed
Regulators are unlikely to insist local currency trades be cleared domestically, says CFTC chair
Isda AGM: CCPs fear clearing stampede
Market participants now have months, rather than years, until the Dodd-Frank clearing mandate takes effect - and CCPs are worrying about a last-minute rush
Isda AGM: Margin regime ups liquidity risk, buy-side firms warned
Collateral demands will be pro-cyclical - rising as markets become stressed - and will be generated by uncleared as well as cleared trades, DE Shaw treasurer tells Isda conference
US Treasury’s FX exemption hangs in the balance
A year after the US Treasury's proposed regulatory exemption for FX swaps and forwards, the position has never been confirmed - and some believe it may be reconsidered
Isda 27th Annual General Meeting Chicago 2012
End in sight?
Cross-border confusion between domestic clearing houses
Cross-border confusion
Regulators look out for clearing dodges
Out of the clear?
LEI debate focuses on governance issues
The LEI vision
Each: CCPs seek safety in numbers
Each and everyone
US clearing head leaves Morgan Stanley
New York-based client clearing head leaves as OTC clearing competition hots up
Trade repositories consider connectivity options
With multiple trade repositories appearing in a number of asset classes, including foreign exchange, market participants are considering how competing repositories should collaborate to avoid data inconsistency
Despite MF Global, firms face weaker OTC safeguards
Segregated thinking
Canada clearing paper will not address CCP location question
A consultation on OTC clearing is expected in the coming months, but a key question will not be answered
Risk Annual Summit: Central clearing divides buy side
A hammer to crack a nut, or a chance for everybody to win? Buy-side panellists disagree on the merits of central clearing
Risk Annual Summit: Buy-side firms call for clearing changes
Eligible collateral for CCP margin needs to be reviewed – and regulators also need to ensure the clearing exemption for some end-users is not negated by Basel capital rules, say buy-side firms
Identifiers key to repository success, say participants
Consistent reporting to multiple trade repositories under new OTC regulations will depend on the successful adoption of legal identifiers
Ice to compete with CME and LCH.Clearnet on FX clearing
Competition in forex clearing intensifies as LCH.Clearnet receives regulatory approval and Ice explains how its rival offering will differentiate itself