Barclays’ F&O clearing unit boosts client margin by $2.1bn

- Alessandro Aimone
- @aimoneale
- 02 Nov 2021

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Required client margin held by Barclays’ US futures and options (F&O) clearing unit rose by $2.1 billion in the third quarter of the year – the biggest increase of the 49 reporting futures commission merchants (FCMs).

Data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) shows the UK bank held $9.9 billion of required segregated customer funds to cover their F&O trades.

Bank of America Securities posted the second-largest quarterly increase, with required margin up $1.9 billion to

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