Margin
Pension funds foresaw margin meltdown (a decade ago)
Years of warnings went largely unheeded. Questions may now spread to post-crisis clearing and margining project
Client margin at Credit Suisse shrinks to just $25m
Required funds for swaps meet same fate as F&O trades, as exit from prime services continues
BoE intervention whipsaws pension funds that dumped hedges
Unhedged funds saw liabilities rise by up to 20% when rates pulled back
$899m margin breach at FICC’s mortgage unit
Three-day move in TBA prices on June 9 triggered second-highest backtesting deficiency to date
Margining solution of the year: S&P Global Market Intelligence
Asia Risk Awards 2022
Derivatives law firm of the year: Linklaters
Asia Risk Awards 2022
UK pensions hit with £100m margin calls as gilts and sterling slide
At least three LDI managers request emergency capital as others consider unwinds to avoid default
FICC’s government securities unit hit by $995m breach
Large moves in US Treasury yields in June to blame for largest backtesting exception on record
Eurex liquidity pool jumps 39% as required IM rises
Members of the IRS clearing unit saw the largest increase of required margin in Q2
IM at three LCH clearing units rose in Q2
Increase in clearing volumes pushed collateral up at EquityClear, RepoClear and SwapClear
Ice Credit’s required initial margin up 18% in Q2
CCP reported highest level on record, superseding Covid-19-induced peak
Liquidity risk up 138% at Eurex in Q2
CCP revised estimated worst-case payment obligation to highest level on record
European pension funds must start clearing next year – EC
Exemption preventing pension funds from mandatory clearing will come to an end permanently in June 2023
Peak IM call at OCC jumps 38% in Q2
Outsized equity price moves behind third-largest IM call on record
EU plan to suspend power derivatives gets icy response
Proposal from energy ministers to ease collateral burdens blasted as “silly” and “terrible idea”
Interest rate vol triggered three breaches at CME in Q2
CCP’s interest rate swaps clearing unit reported its first initial margin shortfalls since Q3 2020
Margin costs leap on Simm rejig and rates hikes
Acadia finds roughly one-third jump in exposure following Simm recalibration, with higher funding costs adding to burden
Credit checks, what credit checks? How crypto lending ate itself
Collapse of hedge fund Three Arrows Capital exposes “sloppy and irresponsible” credit standards among crypto lenders
LME member default fund contribution jumps 89%
Following record-breaking margin breach in Q1, the CCP plumped up its line of defence
Goldman’s rates traders have been crowd-watching
Talking Heads 2022: Steepener unwinds in sterling were “canary in the coalmine”, says rates trading co-head
Banks shock commodities by 1,000% in stress-test rethink
Energy price spikes force clearing firms to consider extreme or even ‘implausible’ scenarios
How Citi is handling topsy-turvy rates markets
Talking Heads 2022: Rate hikes and inflation have forced a rethink of the US bank’s hedging strategies
Choice of margin period of risk and netting for computing margins in central counterparty clearinghouses: a Monte Carlo investigation
The authors provide a quantitative comparison for evaluating the impact of collecting margins in a gross-versus-net system with the margin period of risk (MPOR) set to between one and five days.
Buy-side retreats to ‘dirty’ CSAs amid collateral crunch
Repo market fears prompt insurers and pension funds to revert to bond collateral