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June 18, 2015 - Editor

Get the secret 'underground' views of Bank of England staff

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March 5, 2015 - Editor

At an eight month lag to the base reported data it is based on, BCBS's half yearly Basel III monitoring report was published recently looking

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May 16, 2014 - Editor

The Bank of England have published a study into the way IM models work when reacting to stressed market conditions, comparing models such as VaR,

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April 10, 2014 - Editor

Key organisations within the UK provide components of the Financial Market Infrastructure, which the Bank of England must supervise.

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March 10, 2014 - Editor

IFR produced another article bemoaning the liquidity problems in the secondary credit bond market.  An illustrative statistic is bank inventory: 2007 US$235bn; now "a mere" US$37bn.  Aside from

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December 2, 2013 - Editor

Clearing Survey of CCP Progress Since the US Clearing Mandate Kicked In It’s been a few months since we last updated the CCP chart, and

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November 4, 2013 - Editor

The Bank of England May Have Gotten into the Collateral Transformation Business…Will the Fed Follow? Several news sources reported on last week’s speech by Mark

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October 31, 2013 - Editor

It was announced today that a temporary network of bilateral liquidity swap lines between six central banks will be made into a standing arrangement "until

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April 29, 2013 - Editor

A paper explaining how CCPs allocate losses to members in a default. Financial Stability Report | Financial Stability Paper No 20: Central counterparty loss-allocation rules.

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April 29, 2013 - Editor

Interesting paper on how a CCP achieves protection. Financial Stability Report | Financial Stability Paper No 19: Central counterparties and their financial resources – a