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Changes to derivatives margin requirements delayed
19 March 2015 Basel
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Changes for margin requirements for non-centrally cleared derivatives will be delayed by nine months, the Basel Committee and the International Organization of Securities Commissions have agreed...

Clearstream and ICE collaborate on collateral
18 March 2015 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Clearstream and ICE Clear Europe are collaborating to create a tri-party margin collateral management service, linking the London-based CCP to Clearstream’s Global Liquidity Hub...

OpenGamma reaches out to OTC derivatives industry
11 March 2015 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Structure solutions provider OpenGamma is partnering up with dealers and other participants in the over-the-counter derivatives market to deliver an open-source solution for bilateral margin...

TTC first to use Prisma
10 March 2015 Boca Raton
Reporter: Stephen Durham

The Technancial Company (TTC) has become first to market with Eurex Clearing Prisma 2.05 real-time margin methodology on its JANUS platform...

SNS Bank extends SunGard mandate
11 February 2015 Utrecht
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

SNS Bank has mandated SunGard to upgrade its treasury and risk infrastructure in an extension of the firms’ ongoing relationship...

LCH.Clearnet welcomes CCP reform
05 December 2014 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Initial margin must remain the most important defence for CCPs, while stress-testing and transparency of results is the key to increasing confidence in them...

Buy and sell sides united on margin calculations
24 June 2014 London
Reporter: Catherine Van de Stouwe

InterDelta has revealed the preliminary findings from research on industry planning for the forthcoming non-cleared margin regulation for over the counter (OTC) derivatives...

Northern Trust boosts collateral options
17 March 2014 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Northern Trust is enhancing its collateral management and liquidity solutions to help clients meet the requirements of implementing multiple, inconsistent regulations...

Walk and talk like a CCP
19 December 2013 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Thinking like a CCP is the way to get ahead in the new cleared OTC world, was the conclusion formed from a recent whitepaper...

Bloomberg takes issue with CFTC's swaps rule
23 April 2013 Washington DC
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Data vendor Bloomberg is taking the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to court over a proposed rule that it argues will make swaps trading more expensive...

Markit rolls out triparty repo data
19 March 2013 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Markit Securities Finance is seeking to capitalise on the $10 trillion repo market, with the expansion of its content and analytical services to include US dollar triparty repo transactions...

ICE makes collateral changes
08 November 2010 London
Reporter: Justin Lawson

ICE Clear Europe will accept gold bullion as collateral and has also recently introduced a triparty collateral management arrangement with Euroclear Bank