Eurex Clearing
As business mix shifts, Eurex bulks up its default fund
Clearing house will raise charge to 9% from 7% as stress tests signal need for a fatter fund
Inside top CCPs’ default funds
Central banks favoured by CCPs to hold default resources
Eurex: from EQD clearing specialist to all-rounder
Initial margin for equity derivatives makes up 41% of total, down from 63% four years prior
Buy-side opportunities in central clearing
Matthias Graulich, member of the Eurex Clearing Executive Board, discusses the risk management challenges for the buy side in the face of changing regulatory requirements and today’s low interest rate environment, and how a new breed of solutions is…
Clearing house power-downs raise fears among members
Banks question CCP resilience to system outages, as debate swirls over non-default losses
JP Morgan turns to start-up to manage CME margin
Bank also weighing whether to bring its business at two other clearing houses on to Baton platform
People moves: new global co-heads at Citi, Tran takes Asia-Pacific role at Crédit Agricole, RBC Capital Markets hires in sales, and more
Latest job changes across the industry
CCPs dismiss bank, buy-side criticisms
CME, Ice bat away suggestions of flaws in clearing house risk management
Morgan Stanley, JP clear first cross-currency swap at Eurex
Two more banks onboarding; CCP hoping to extend service to clients in 2020
Top 10 CCPs add $5.4 billion to liquidity pools in Q2
Clearing houses expand size of secured credit lines over the second quarter
Defaults would dent, but not destroy, CCP liquidity buffers
Max payment obligations in event of member default would be sufficiently covered
LCH leads top CCPs on operational failures
London-based clearing house said core systems were down for over seven hours in 12-month period
Eurex Clearing reports sharp rise in default exposures
Clearing house’s peak same-day payment obligation rose to €5 billion in the second quarter
Eurex Clearing members add €609m to default fund
Initial margin posted in Q2 soars 5%
Eurex to adopt €STR flat discounting for Euribor swaps
Switch planned for Q2 of 2020, with a single cash payment to correct value transfers
Benchmark reform, LCH-Eurex basis and FX algo fears
The week on Risk.net, September 7–13, 2019
LCH sets €STR swap clearing launch date
Clearing house to offer the swaps from October 21, discounted at Eonia
Eurex to launch cross-currency swap clearing ‘within weeks’
Clearing service will target dealer-to-dealer trades before later rolling out to clients
Brexit flips LCH-Eurex basis
LCH-Eurex basis has inverted on buy-side flows, hitting –1.3bp at July low
Splits emerge over ‘pre-cessation’ fallback triggers
CCPs say cleared swaps will move to new rates if Libor is no longer representative of markets
The great migration: CCPs ponder life after Span
As CME moves to a value-at-risk methodology, CCPs that license its model look on nervously
Top CCPs’ liquidity pools hardly grow in Q1
LCH SA the only outlier as most clearing houses see cash, collateral and credit on hand shrink
Eurex made €525m VM call in Q1
Margin call equivalent to 2% of CCP’s own liquidity resources