Dealers resigned to CCP competition in Asia

Singapore Exchange launched a clearing service for Singapore dollar interest rate swaps at the end of the last year. How does the exchange see the service developing, and can it compete with the raft of other central counterparties expected to launch around the region? By Nick Sawyer

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Singapore Exchange

US legislators have ruled that much of the over-the-counter derivatives market must be cleared through central counterparties (CCPs), and Europe is in the final stages of following suit. Asia is different – regulators have not been so quick to formally mandate central clearing. Despite this, the region has become a hotbed of CCP activity, with a growing number of jurirdictions revealing their intention to launch their own, unique domestic CCPs – among them, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore and South

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