Default funds
Ice adds insurance to default waterfall
Protection promises partial recovery of guarantee funds at three CCPs
Swaps data: CCPs – a systemically important market infrastructure
Disclosures show heavy concentration of initial margin in top three clearing services, writes Amir Khwaja
Prime services – It’s about what you bring
There are many benefits to integration – particularly when it comes to the provision of prime services. Societe Generale has followed this path, which has allowed it to improve cost efficiency and improve the range of products it can offer. The bank has…
Banks warn of trader crunch at CCP default auctions
Risk USA: dealers hope for more cross-CCP fire drills
CCPs dismiss bank, buy-side criticisms
CME, Ice bat away suggestions of flaws in clearing house risk management
LCH SA members add €371m to cash, derivatives default fund
Funds for other clearing activities see quarter-on-quarter falls, in contrast
Ice’s European CDS clearing house adds €175m to default fund in Q2
In contrast, futures and options fund shrinks 6% quarter-on-quarter
DTCC default fund contributions climb 15%
CCP had 270 clearing members at end-June
Eurex Clearing members add €609m to default fund
Initial margin posted in Q2 soars 5%
Ice, CME shore up clearing house recovery planning
Introduction of VMGH and tear-ups comes amid impasse over CCP recovery and resolution rules
JSCC member default fund contributions fall to ¥676bn in Q2
Default fund contributions shrink 19%, but members’ initial margin payments climb
Ice Clear Europe default fund contributions jump 21%
The clearing house reported 78 clearing members for futures and options division
DTCC default fund contributions shrink 16%
CCP reports 268 clearing members at end-March
Default fund costs dominate US G-Sibs’ cleared swaps charges
Default fund contributions accounted for 62% of the eight banks’ RWAs
JSCC default funds shrink $1.7 billion in Q1
The CCP reported 281 clearing members at end-March
Credit portfolio stress testing using transition matrixes
In this paper, the authors propose a new methodology for modeling credit transition probability matrixes (TPMs) using macroeconomic factors.
Podcast: Kaminski on lessons from commodity market defaults
Professor Vince Kaminski analyses Nasdaq and PJM defaults
Don’t fear the clearer
Wider use of CCPs not systemic threat – but participants do face hard-to-measure risks
OCC members' default fund payments drop 39% in 2018
Calculation switch shaves billions off mandatory contributions
DTCC members add $26bn to default funds in 2018
Clearing house's own contributions dipped $8.5 million last year
Clearing members inject $2.5bn to JSCC default funds in 2018
Higher contributions likely reflect increased exposures at the CCP
Banks split over sending traders to default auctions
After Nasdaq auction failed, some see need for traders in process; others can’t afford to lose them
CFTC official: CCPs should war-game default auctions
Risk appetite should be factor in selecting auction participants – Wasserman
Margin or membership? Regulators react to Nasdaq default
Six supervisors – from Bafin to the MAS – downplay idea of mandatory increase in futures MPOR