March 7, 2014
Beware Your Position in the CCP Default Waterfall
Members of the Korean Exchange surprised by the order in which a broker default was funded
Jeremy Grant has a story from Asia on a small default by a broker at KRX, which surprised members by being funded using non-defaulting member funds, rather than CCP assets as is usually expected. Full story on how this is causing a re-examination of CCPs default waterfall over at the FT (subs)