Lehman’s ghost: how three CCPs anchor models to crash

The Lehman crash still haunts the margin models of LCH, CME and Eurex, albeit in different ways

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“Listen to me very carefully,” Robert De Niro’s mobster tells John Bloom’s hapless lieutenant in the 1995 gangster flick Casino. “There are three ways of doing things around here: the right way, the wrong way, and the way that I do it.”

That sums up the choices the three largest over-the-counter rates clearing houses have made when hardwiring the decade-old default of Lehman Brothers into their initial margin (IM) models.

Beyond regulatory minimums, there are no right or wrong ways of setting

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