SEC capital rules could stunt CDS client clearing

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Banks are threatening not to offer client clearing for credit derivatives in the US due to capital rules from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which they claim could cause a single missed margin payment by a client to result in the default of a bank's clearing arm.

Under the rules, US clearing members - known as futures commission merchants (FCMs) - have to take a capital charge on a customer's entire portfolio, ignoring any existing initial or variation margin posted by the client

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