DCOs show resilience beyond key default thresholds – CFTC

Reverse stress test reveals clearing houses remain resilient under low to moderate market shocks

The loss-absorption capacities of US derivatives clearing organisations (DCOs) become insensitive to further member defaults beyond a certain threshold, reverse stress-testing from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) suggests.

The agency girded 11 clearing services to gauge their ‘frontiers of coverage’ – the maximum level of market stress that each DCO could withstand relative to the number of member defaults, before exhausting its prefunded or total resources.

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