CCP
WHAT IS THIS? A central counterparty (CCP) manages default risk by collecting initial and variation margin from both parties to a trade. Spill-over losses are absorbed via a default fund to which all members contribute – introducing a degree of mutualised risk – and by the CCP’s own capital. The concept is an old one that was extended to over-the-counter derivatives in the aftermath of the financial crisis.
Brexit OTC mutation, chaperones and SA-CCR
The week on Risk.net, October 6–12, 2018
Searching for the end of Giancarlo’s white-paper trail
CFTC chairman faces key test to turn thought leadership into real reform
Let regulators manage no-deal risks
EU can stop swaps market falling over a Brexit cliff – and EU firms will be biggest losers if they don’t act
Stuck in traffic: EU turf war holds up CCP resolution rules
Unsuitable rules for failed banks could be used to resolve French and German clearing houses
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%
EU clients face axe from UK CCPs
But Esma’s Maijoor offers lifeline, calling for continued access for EU members
Q&A: CFTC’s Giancarlo on the race to overhaul cross-border rules
New Sef rules imminent, but deference to foreign regulators may not be completed by 2020
Paypals: Eurex members await their pay day
Profit-sharing scheme has created more competitive swaps landscape
Banks cry foul over LCH compression policy changes
Allocation of compression slots favours TriOptima over competitors, critics say
Skin in the game
This paper analyzes the cost of putting aside capital as skin in the game (SITG).
CFTC’s cross-border clearing plan faces long haul
US clients warned not to expect access to foreign exempt CCPs for at least a year
BAML may rejoin China swaps market after US policy shift
Clearing exemption removes swaps deterrent as bank seeks to hedge growing China exposure
Nasdaq slow to share defaulter info with peer CCPs
“Why didn’t you tell us earlier?” other clearers want to know
Spotlight on auction in €114m Nasdaq clearing blow-up
Four-member auction may have turned 39% margin breach into huge default fund loss
EU deadlock set to delay CCP resolution rules
Lawmakers disagree over whether Esma should be given new powers to tackle distressed CCPs
JP exec calls for derivatives margin changes
Move follows 13 significant margin breaches in 2018, with one breaching by as much as 245%
Eurex Clearing set to lose CRO
Thomas Laux stepping down next year
Exchanges warn on clearing concentration
Clearing houses urge margin offset in leverage ratio, adoption of SA-CCR and recalibration of NSFR
Benefits and risks of central clearing in the repurchase agreement market
In this paper, the authors quantify the potential direct economic benefits to market participants and increased risks to CCPs of moving bilateral repo transactions between US dealers and their nondealer clients to CCPs.
Optimisation services edge closer to EU clearing exemption
Lawmakers ask European Commission to consider if offsetting non-cleared trades could be exempt
Time running out for EU Brexit temporary permissions regime
UK clearing houses may need to eject EU member positions if BoE scheme is not reciprocated by year-end
EU drops reporting relief for exchange-traded derivatives
Exemption removed from Emir Refit, but Parliament moots future legislative changes for ETDs