Clearing members
Industry urges CFTC to take lead on CCP margin models
Advisory committee unable to agree steps on margin period of risk, model transparency
Buy-side physical FX clearing at LCH faces scepticism
Lack of clearing mandate and settlement wrangles mean demand for putative service remains weak
March’s clearing failures give new life to an old idea
Futures industry snubbed chance to build post-trade utility before. Now, it really needs one
Clearing house of the year: Eurex Clearing
Risk Awards 2021: clearer’s Prisma margin model proves its mettle in year of market tumult
Nasdaq held Aas portfolio for nine months after blow-up
Swedish regulator reveals CCP’s decision to keep defaulted power portfolio – and claims it was not fully hedged
Nasdaq whacked with $36 million fine over Aas default
Swedish regulator’s fine poses serious questions over default management and margining, while providing few answers
FCMs to let clients offset swaps and futures margin at Eurex
Banks target Q2 support for client cross-margining following lengthy lobby effort from hedge funds
LCH Ltd sent record €6bn VM call to one clearing member in Q3
Largest estimated payment obligation in the event of a member default also climbs quarter on quarter
Top CCPs invest little clearing member cash in securities
Cash payments of initial margin and default fund contributions are typically placed with central banks
Don’t blame CCPs’ models for Covid margin spikes – WFE
Lobby group counters popular view that tools could ease procyclicality; puts focus on liquidity management
Skin in the game of top CCPs varies
The average default fund has less than 4% of total resources contributed by the host CCP itself
JSCC increases skin in the game after merger
CCP added ¥2.4 billion to cover commodities contracts
At LCH Ltd, IM levels edged lower in Q3
Peak aggregate initial margin call for equities fund hit £3 billion
Initial margin at the OCC leapt 20% in Q3
Cleared options contract volumes hit 1.9 billion in Q3
IM, default fund resources fell at Eurex in Q3
Total collateral held remains elevated compared to pre-coronavirus crisis
FCMs fret over S&P 500 options settlement changes
Dealers say CME, Cboe settlement time shift for S&P 500-linked options causes risk management headache
US regulator casts doubt on key SA-CCR netting benefit
OCC rejects suggestion banks can net certain cleared client exposures; Fed stays silent
Direct clearing could solve CCP concentration risk
Allowing more clients to self-clear can reduce CCPs’ reliance on a few firms, says ex-Chicago Fed adviser
SA-CCR switch clouded by confusion over netting sets
An effort by US regulators to incentivise the switch to SA-CCR may be having the opposite effect
Regulators’ margin model rules too lax – BlackRock exec
Risk USA: EU anti-procyclicality rules like “putting a curtain over a draughty window”
UBS gears up for another tilt at clearing
Swiss bank makes senior hires and upgrades tech platform ahead of Brexit and leverage offset
Ice tees up CDS options launch for November 9
Fight for CDS market share heats up as Ice begins clearing options and LCH preps CDX offering
FCM client margin for swaps continued to shrink in Q3
Barclays the outlier as required IM jumps 22%
Jerome Kemp on the skewed economics of clearing
Only Fed intervention prevented “a really big market disaster” during Covid, says derivatives veteran