United States
LCH and CME to start clearing SOFR swaps in third quarter
Scramble to offer clearing aimed at cutting clients’ margin and capital costs
Bridge to nowhere: gaps in Treasury G-Sib bankruptcy plan
US bankruptcy-first approach needs more thought on emergency liquidity, say experts
Why Asia should hold fire on replicating EU holdco rules
China and Japan should wait for outcome of US regulatory review and Brexit before retaliating
US swap rate failed during volatility rout
The Ice swap rate was not published on February 6 due to a lack of electronic prices during equity turmoil
The case for draining excess reserves
The financial system can operate efficiently with $500 billion or less in reserves after normalisation
Funding changes break cross-currency, Libor/OIS link
Tax reform and Treasury issuance focuses bank US dollar funding pressures onshore
Swaps data: a Mifid-shaped hole
Data shows strong growth in US dollar rate swaps, but global picture is incomplete, says Amir Khwaja of Clarus FT
Credit data: UK retail sector’s woes continue
High street fails to get over Christmas slump; elsewhere, global PDs remain in flux, writes David Carruthers of Credit Benchmark
ECL regimes a volatile brew of risk and accounting
Fed asks banks to propose a solution to address CECL-CCAR mismatch
The Fed’s heavy hand on economic equality
Monetary policy and bank regulations contribute to widening US wealth gap
Equity derivatives now biggest consumer of initial margin
Fragmented product set is 1.3% of OTC notional but attracts more margin than rates and forex
EU risks backlash on CCP supervision – UK MEP
Swinburne says US could retaliate over fears of “damaging blanket Brexit policy”
Global fragmentation looms in FRTB data pooling stand-off
Smaller banks unwilling to hand over localised trade information to data utilities
Cyber security expert issues call to modernise Patriot Act
OpRisk North America: current policies make it difficult to share information on cyber attacks
US swap trading overhaul may reinforce market split, users warn
New rules on trade execution likely to halt any unifying shift of liquidity to order books
OCC forms working group to tackle fraud
OpRisk North America: Rise in cyber fraud prompts US regulator to reassess guidance to examiners
Tullett Prebon and the mystery Clob
How tpSef quietly kept voice broking alive in a regime designed for e-trading
CECL vs CCAR: banks fear loan-loss reserves mismatch
Lifetime loan loss estimates will look much worse under CCAR stress scenarios than accounting measure