Collateral management
Collateral management and optimisation product of the year: LSEG Post Trade
LSEG Post Trade wins Collateral management and optimisation product of the year for interconnected services that help mitigate counterparty risk and optimise capital usage
Regulators urged to back non-cash variation margin
Market participants warn FSB on cash demands if banks curb collateral upgrade trades
Nervous UK pension schemes want liquidity fixes – it’ll cost them
Asset managers are crafting new ways for schemes to raise cash in a crisis
Derivatives funding: smart solutions for a complex environment
Eurex’s cleared repo and GC Pooling offerings are helping market participants overcome challenges in the funding, financing and collateral markets
Citi and JP Morgan vie to extend collateral optimisation to CCPs
High rates and increasing collateral requirements have ignited race for greater efficiency
Collateral damage: the lowdown on dirty CSAs
How are banks coping with growing demand for non-cash collateral in uncleared derivatives contracts? An expert panel discusses the re-emergence of dirty CSAs
HKEX and LCH look to expand eligible collateral
Chinese government bonds in the frame as clearing houses seek to boost non-cash margin options
CFTC plan to relax MMF margin restriction sparks debate
Industry welcomes proposal to lift ban on repo-using funds as eligible IM, but some warn MMFs bring risks
Token effort is no blockchain boon for illiquid assets
Cash-like tokenised instruments find takers; initiatives based on less liquid assets struggle to take off
Market blocked in by volume caps on European DLT regime
Limited scope of pilot project risks holding back issuer and depository participation
Ice Clear Europe collateral spreads a ‘nightmare’, say banks
Risk.net spread analysis shows Ice pays little more than half the rate of other CCPs on cash margin
Blockchain startup Symbiont files for bankruptcy
Clients included Citi, State Street and Vanguard
Pension funds foresaw margin meltdown (a decade ago)
Years of warnings went largely unheeded. Questions may now spread to post-crisis clearing and margining project
Collateral management solution of the year: Adenza
Asia Risk Awards 2022
Collateral manager of the year: BNY Mellon
Asia Risk Awards 2022
Major lender hikes borrowing costs as crypto flounders
Brokers warn crypto market faces a reckoning with wrong-way risk as lenders rush to tighten terms
Automate today to prepare for initial margin compliance
Neil Murphy, business manager, TriOptima, at OSTTRA explores how automation can increase efficiency and maximise time savings across margin activities, delivering collateral cost reductions and allowing firms to focus their attentions on higher-value…
Collateral resilience is more than just understanding initial margin
New regulations and extreme global events are seeing initial margin (IM) requirements rise in prominence, with investment managers needing to focus on more than just their regulatory and operational compliance
Margin rules lead to rise in Asian NDF clearing volumes
LCH and Eurex position themselves for NDF clearing uptick ahead of next UMR phase
How derivatives management is changing post‑Covid‑19
Risk.net explores five derivatives trading themes discussed by experts in a recent webinar sponsored by Numerix
UMR efficiency: optimising systems and processes for IM compliance
UMR are among the biggest collateral management issues faced by investors in over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives. At a specially convened session sponsored by IHS Markit at Risk.net’s Buy-Side Risk Global event, panellists discussed the latest phases of…