The slow growth of cross-product margining

Clearing houses may have promised too much, too soon on the benefits of cross-product margining, leaving them at risk of under-delivering. Only a handful of clients have so far been able to benefit – and for most, the savings have been smaller than advertised. Tom Osborn reports

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Savvy consumers are wise to adverts promising huge potential benefits with no lower boundary – the cleaning agent that kills up to 100% of germs, for example, or the laptop that is up to 70% faster – but buy-side firms may need to apply the same caution when clearing houses are pushing cross-product margining services. Dealers say the eye-catching savings that appear in marketing material from CME Group and Eurex are based on cherry-picked test cases, and are proving difficult to achieve for the

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