Bilateral Derivatives Tag

Proposed Margin Rules Last month, US Banking Regulators presented a new proposal for the collection, calculation, and segregation of margin for bilateral derivatives. The new US proposals are quite different from their original 2011 proposal, in light of the BCBS/IOSCO issuance of their 2013 final policy framework on...

Issues & Trends in the End-User Community ISDA’s new Survey of Issues & Trends in the End User Community offers interesting insights into Swap Execution Facilities and End Users. Respondents point to fragmentation along geographical lines due to regulatory ambiguities in cross-border transactions. The survey’s respondents were...

This article speaks about reducing notional by offsetting swaps by using compression.  The success we've seen and expect to see as counterparties phase-in to CCP clearing has been a testament to firms working together to get things done. Collapsing Swaps Positions Compression has proven an enormously successful...