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UMR isn't the only margin related event this year. Jo Burnham at Opengamma sets out what may happen this year.
The Bank of England has carried out a research project using data from DTCC and Unavista. The project modelled the flow of liquidity to meet margin calls in the cleared and uncleared market. The outcome of shortfalls is then compared to the global repo market to determine if systemic risk is present.
How are borrowers adjusting their interest rate hedging strategies to take account of the impending General Election and the uncertainty surrounding the UK’s future relationship with the EU? By Rhona Macpherson, Associate Director at JCRA
ISDA has published the ISDA SIMM™ Methodology, version 2.2, with an Effective Date of December 1, 2019. This version of SIMM includes updates based on the full recalibration and industry backtesting of the methodology. It also includes additional granularity for the FX asset class, the removal of curvature margin from equity volatility indexes and an alteration to allow for annual calibration of credit non-qualifying intra-bucket correlations.
In a recent report, Uncleared Margin Rules and the Rise of Initial Margin Optimization, Aite Group senior analyst Audrey Blater discusses an array of solutions offered to both the buy-side and sell-side to combat rising margin fees.
UMR will bring new indirect costs to uncleared OTC portfolios. These costs for protecting the world against systemic risk will be paid by the firms in waves 1 to 5 of UMR.
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If you trade bilateral OTC derivatives then you probably know by now that the Uncleared Margin Rules (UMR) are rapidly approaching and will require significant changes to your trading, book management and collateral management processes.
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The Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) and the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) today have announced the signing of a new initiative to link International Securities Identification Numbers (ISINs) and Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs). The initiative has been created to help improve transparency of exposure by linking the issuer and issuance of securities.
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The OTC Space is pleased to invite you to the Model Risk Management Forum on 19-20 September in London. Get to grips with the best practices and emerging innovations of model risk management and governance, and get a 15% discount on tickets as a guest of The OTC Space.
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