Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC)
All clear? Structural shifts add to repo madness
Many things contributed to 10% repo, among them a FICC programme and a surge in overnight funding
Top 10 CCPs add $5.4 billion to liquidity pools in Q2
Clearing houses expand size of secured credit lines over the second quarter
Defaults would dent, but not destroy, CCP liquidity buffers
Max payment obligations in event of member default would be sufficiently covered
LCH leads top CCPs on operational failures
London-based clearing house said core systems were down for over seven hours in 12-month period
DTCC default fund contributions climb 15%
CCP had 270 clearing members at end-June
DTCC’s total liquidity pool shrank in Q2
Aggregate liquidity resources fall to $260 billion
Top CCPs’ liquidity pools hardly grow in Q1
LCH SA the only outlier as most clearing houses see cash, collateral and credit on hand shrink
At FICC, 20 margin breaches in Q1
The clearing house posted 157 margin breaches for the 12-month period ending in March
DTCC default fund contributions shrink 16%
CCP reports 268 clearing members at end-March
A mystery: why did the NY Fed use a survey to get SOFR?
Almost a week later, still no word on why SOFR was set using a market survey instead of submissions
DTCC in talks to clear MarketAxess bond trades
Market-first move could cut platform’s costs and counterparty risks
People moves: Barclays’ investment bank chief exits, Citi president to retire, Vos promoted at BNY Mellon, and more
Latest job changes across the industry
Top CCPs add $79 billion to liquidity pool in 2018
Clearing houses placed more cash with commercial banks than in 2017
Patchy response to Isda’s back office of the future
Some banks are quiet, while clearing houses seem split on uptake of Isda data standardisation project
DTCC members add $26bn to default funds in 2018
Clearing house's own contributions dipped $8.5 million last year
Digital Asset’s European chief set to exit
Departure from blockchain firm follows other top exits in last few months
Functional programming reaches for stardom in finance
Fans highlight more reliable code, and suitability for complex tasks and distributed ledgers
FICC takes firm grip of US repo market
Central counterparty wrangled more money market repo cash than banks did by end-2018
DTCC, Ice Clear Europe lead top CCPs in boosting liquidity buffers
CCPs added $20.8 billion to their liquidity buffers in the third quarter of 2018
Repo rate hits 7.25% on year-end volatility
US Treasury issuance on December 31 said to have fuelled last-minute dash for cash
Top 10 CCPs plump liquidity buffers by $20 billion
Increase driven by higher secured deposits at commercial banks and expansion of credit lines
NSCC posts $137m margin breach
Securities CCP records largest margin shortfall since public disclosures began
Unfinished business: US Treasuries reform stalls
Efforts to improve clearing and settlement of US government debt – and oversight of who trades it – still incomplete
FICC concentration risk ebbs
Open positions in government securities held by ten largest clearing members falls to 37%