Journal of Financial Market Infrastructures
ISSN:
2049-5404 (print)
2049-5412 (online)
Editor-in-chief: Ron Berndsen
About this journal
Today, in the light of the financial crisis, it has become part of the political agenda to strengthen payment, clearing and settlement systems, as well as repositories for data on the trades they process. The Journal of Financial Market Infrastructures is the first journal to focus on this exciting and dynamic sector, and aims to bring together a community of contributors from the constituent sectors to analyse financial market infrastructures to further the development of this emerging field.
The journal provides a balanced representation of academic and practitioner-focused papers which are dedicated to analysing operational and regulatory effectiveness and efficiency of payment, clearing, settlement, trade repository systems; and the risks they manage, transmit and create.
The Journal of Financial Market Infrastructures considers submissions in the form of technical papers and policy-oriented papers (forum discussions), on topics including, but not limited to:
- Systemically Important Payment Systems
- Securities Settlement Systems
- Central Counterparties
- Central Securities Depositories
- Trade Repositories
- Settlement Risk and other FMI-related risks including interdependencies
- Infrastructure-Related Systemic Risk
- Network analysis of an FMI
- Critical Service Providers and non-bank payment service providers
- Correspondent banking
- Retail Payment Infrastructures (remote and Point-Of-Sale, ATM, virtual currencies)
- FMI Liquidity and Collateral Management
- Exchanges and Multilateral Trading Platforms
- Oversight and Supervision of Financial Market Infrastructures
- FMI-related standardization and legislation
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Latest papers
Quantifying the economic benefits of payments modernization: the case of Canada’s large-value payment system
The authors analyze the economic benefits of the replacement of Canada’s large-value transfer system (LVTS) with the new system, Lynx.
Mitigating margin procyclicality: the effectiveness of anti-procyclicality measures during the Covid-19 stress event
This paper analyzes the effectiveness of APC measures implemented by central counterparties for clearing member and client margins, with effectiveness sensitive to the details of calibration and type of portfolios to which the measure is applied.
Payment coordination and liquidity efficiency in wholesale payments systems
The authors investigate the two settlement mechanisms found in the Lynx payments system, finding that the highest liquidity efficiency is achieved if all payments were sent to the mechanism allowing offsetting.
Falling use of cash and population age structure
The authors investigate the reduction of cash use across 25 countries, using three means of measurement and argue that one method is more appropriate than the others.
“Closing the gaps: moving forward on tail risks in central clearing”: a central bank of issue perspective
The authors explain the priorities for CCP recovery and resolution from a central bank of issue perspective, focussing on structural barriers and how gaps could be overcome.
Do DEXs work? Using Uniswap V2 to explore the effectiveness of decentralized exchanges
The authors investigate the effectiveness of the Ether–Tether liquidity pool on the Uniswap V2 and note that cointegration between the price set by the liquidity pool and its price elsewhere is a necessary condition of effectiveness.
Choice of margin period of risk and netting for computing margins in central counterparty clearinghouses: a Monte Carlo investigation
The authors provide a quantitative comparison for evaluating the impact of collecting margins in a gross-versus-net system with the margin period of risk (MPOR) set to between one and five days.
Procyclicality of central counterparty margin models: systemic problems need systemic approaches
In this paper the author argues that the focus on initial margin models is misplaced, and the reasons for this are illustrated by empirically testing the performance of standard initial margin models during the March 2020 events.
The customer settlement risk externality at US securities central counterparties
This paper highlights an externality in the clearing of customer securities trades, and it examines the potential benefits and costs of alternative clearing approaches.
Climate risk and central counterparty risk management
In this paper, the European Association of CCP Clearing Houses discusses several aspects of climate risk, including how climate risk is currently integrated into central counterparty stress testing, the metrics within climate risk and how central…
A cost–benefit analysis of anti-procyclicality: analyzing approaches to procyclicality reduction in central counterparty initial margin models
In this paper, the authors suggest how margin setters and policy makers might measure procyclicality and target particular levels of it by recalibrating parameters in a margin model to reduce its procyclicality or by applying an anti-procyclicality tool.
What drives Bitcoin fees? Using SegWit to assess Bitcoin’s long-run sustainability
In this paper the authors use block-level data from the Bitcoin blockchain to estimate the impact of congestion and the US dollar price on fee rates.
Central counterparty capital and nondefault losses
This paper analyses the components of central counterparty (CCP) capital requirements and makes several observations on the potential for loss absorption.
Credit default swap market retrospective: observations from the 2008–9 financial crisis and the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic
In this paper credit market fluctuations, measured by the levels of the main and most heavily traded index instruments, are analyzed and compared with the analogous index realizations during the 2008–9 financial crisis.
Monitoring intraday liquidity risks in a real-time gross settlement system
This paper proposes an intraday liquidity risk indicator (LRI) for each participant in a real-time gross settlement system (RTGS).
Measure twice before you cut: differences in Furfine-type algorithm implementations
This study focuses on the practical implementation aspects of “Furfine-type” algorithms used to identify money market loans from payments data.
Retail payments and financial inclusion in Latin America and the Caribbean: identifying gaps and opportunities
The payment aspects of financial inclusion (PAFI) framework, set up by the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures and the World Bank in 2016, recommends a set of actions to spur financial inclusion by means of improvements in the retail payment…
Clearing away after Brexit?
This paper analyzes, from a legal perspective, the new framework, the roles and responsibilities of the European Central Bank, ESMA and the European Commission, and the possible outcomes for UK CCPs once Brexit is complete.
The trade-off between liquidity risk and counterparty risk in money market networks
The authors examine how liquidity is exchanged in different types of Colombian money market networks (ie, secured, unsecured and the central bank’s repurchase networks) as registered in the local financial market infrastructure.
A descriptive analysis of the client clearing network in the European derivatives landscape
The authors present the findings of a detailed descriptive analysis of client clearing activity for derivatives in the euro area, as well as that of clearing members more broadly.
