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Clearing – 6,308 total articles

1. ESMA Proposes The Rules and Products For Mandatory Clearing Under EMIR
2. Cross Margining at Eurex Clearing – An Explanation – Part 1 of 3
3. Solving the collateral conundrum
4. Collateral Optimization: the future of collateral management
5. Will leverage ratio cause an FCM concentration crisis?
6. Swap Futures – A Comparison of Products
7. Eurex/Deutsche Borse Whitepaper – How CCP's Reduce Risk
8. CCP Notionals Scoresheet
9. CCP's and Systemic Risk – Are We Really Safer?
10. Cross Margining at Eurex Clearing – An Explanation – Part 2 of 3
11. Who's Picking up the Tab? CCP Investment & Operating Costs
12. Asymmetry of CSA's Causes FVA Costs
13. SwapClear Q&A – More Information on the Cross Margin Announcement
14. The IOSCO Big List of CCP's – Information Repository
15. Davis Polk Explain the Regulatory Uncertainties for Non-US CCP's
16. From Chaos to Clarity – The Journey of CDS Portfolio Margining Regulation
17. NetOTC Bilateral and Multilateral Services – up to 73% IM netting & $9bn savings per year
18. Front Loading ESMA – Part 2
19. US Paper Proposes to Give Congress an Option to Nationalise CCP's
20. Asian CCP Recognition: Challenges and Opportunities

EMIR – 4,681 total articles

1. ESMA Proposes The Rules and Products For Mandatory Clearing Under EMIR
2. Cross Margining at Eurex Clearing – An Explanation – Part 1 of 3
3. EMIR Changes the Collateral Management Services Game: Costs and Considerations
4. Eurex/Deutsche Borse Whitepaper – How CCP's Reduce Risk
5. Is Collateral Management a Front Office Function?
6. CCP Notionals Scoresheet
7. ISDA/FOA Addendum – Do you speak legal?
8. Cross Margining at Eurex Clearing – An Explanation – Part 2 of 3
9. Who's Picking up the Tab? CCP Investment & Operating Costs
10. European Regulatory Authority finally moving forward
11. The IOSCO Big List of CCP's – Information Repository
12. Clearing the Hurdles to Meaningful Trade Reporting
13. Front Loading ESMA – Part 2
14. Asian CCP Recognition: Challenges and Opportunities
15. Solving the collateral conundrum
16. The application of mathematical models to measure collateral concentraion risk
17. Weekly Roundup – 13th July 2014
18. Briging Efficiency to Collateral Management – Sapient Global Markets White Paper
19. Weekly Roundup – 21st July 2014
20. The Game Has Changed for Outsourcing

Regulation – 3,830 total articles

1. Will leverage ratio cause an FCM concentration crisis?
2. Collateral Management Infrastructure: 10 Reasons You Need to Invest
3. MIFID II: harmonization mandates new business models in the OTC space
4. Months to Go: Margin on Bilateral OTC Trades
5. Bilateral Margin Rules for Uncleared Swaps to Move?
6. Free Webinar: Risk & Reward, Regulation & Revolution
7. European Regulatory Authority finally moving forward
8. Bilateral Margin Rules – 8 Clues You Need to Know: A Sungard Whitepaper
9. Foreign banks tangled up in Volcker Rule
10. Weekly Roundup – 21st July 2014
11. Second consultation on margin rules under EMIR: still some margin left for concerns
12. What if the Doctors of OTC Derivatives themselves fall Sick?
13. The Best Kept Industry Get-together Secret – GFII September
14. Start Here: A Table of Contents for MiFID/MiFIR – John Philpott
15. Weekly Roundup – 6th July 2014
16. Judging the Risk of Future Black Swans – Some Policy Implications
17. New Technology for Operational Risk – Fat Finger Errors
18. EMIR: Latest news on IRS Clearing Obligation
19. February Regulatory Update
20. Portfolio Compressions: Winners and Losers – 1 of 3

Collateral Management – 3,288 total articles

1. Price Alignment Interest
2. Solving the collateral conundrum
3. EMIR Changes the Collateral Management Servicing Game: Costs and Considerations
4. Collateral Management Infrastructure: 10 Reasons You Need to Invest
5. Is Collateral Management a Front Office Function?
6. Months to Go: Margin on Bilateral OTC Trades
7. Bilateral Margin Rules for Uncleared Swaps to Move?
8. Bilateral Margin Rules – 8 Clues You Need to Know: A Sungard Whitepaper
9. The application of mathematical models to measure collateral concentration risk
10. Bringing Efficiency to Collateral Management – Sapient Global Markets White Paper
11. Vendor Support for Dec 1st Bilateral Margin Rules
12. Second consultation on margin rules under EMIR: still some margin left for concerns
13. Effective Collateral Management Processes
14. OTC Clearing & posting Eligible Collateral for Initial Margin Requirements
15. Collateral Optimization – The Next Generation of Collateral Management: A Sungard Whitepaper
16. Double MPOR under Basle 3 – Collateral Disputes Carry a High Cost
17. Whitepaper: Buy-Side Collateral Management – Challenges and Opportunities
18. New Market Infrastructure For Bilateral Margin Regulations
19. Overcoming the Cost and Complexity of Central Clearing Mandates
20. Single Source of Clean Data for Improved Collateral Management

Dodd Frank – 3,274 total articles

1. LCH-CME Switch Trades and Margin Management
2. Eurex / Deutsche Borse Whitepaper – How CCPs Reduce Risk
3. Is Collateral Management a Front Office Function?
4. CCP Notionals Scoresheet
5. Swaps Compression and Compaction on trueEX and Tradeweb SEFs
6. The IOSCO Big List of CCPs – Information Repository
7. Clearing the Hurdles to Meaningful Trade Reporting
8. Davis Polk Explain the Regulatory Uncertainties for Non-US CCPs
9. From Chaos to Clarity – The Journey of CDS Portfolio Margining Regulation
10. US Paper Proposes to Give Congress an Option to Nationalise CCPs
11. Asian CCP Recognition: Challenges and Opportunities
12. The application of mathematical models to measure collateral concentration risk
13. Weekly Roundup – 13th July 2014
14. Bringing Efficiency to Collateral Management – Sapient Global Markets White Paper
15.  Foreign banks tangled up in Volcker Rule
16. Weekly Roundup – 21st July 2014
17. MAC swaps: not yet needed by dealers
18. The Best Kept Industry Get-together Secret – GFII September
19. Weekly Roundup – 6th July 2014
20. Judging the Risk of Future Black Swans – Some Policy Implications

RSS Feed – 3,119 total articles

1. JP Morgan warns on swaps clearing
2. CLS and TriOptima debut FX compression service
3. Gearing up for non-cleared margin
4. Bilateral Margin Rules Move to 2016
5. Basel III – the cost to capital is obvious but what about the hidden costs…
6. CDS clearing – The looming mandate
7. Banks team up for OTC swaps utility
8. Clearing Certainty (ESMA's Version)
9. EMIR margin rule changes not marginal
10. ESAs consult on margin requirements for non-centrally cleared
11. AcadiaSoft and TriOptima tie-up to usher in new margin hub
12. Nomura pulls back on swaps clearing
13. ECB QE and EMIR Reporting. More transparency please!
14. Electronic Trading of OTC Derivatives – is the fire hose about to be turned on?
15. Esma official slams CFTC margin rules
16. Our Top 10 Blogs of 2014
17. EU revisions to uncleared margin rules address industry fears
18. Portfolio Cross-Margining of Swaps and Futures
19. US considers delay to OTC swap rules
20. CME-LCH Basis Spread

Funding and Capital Economics – 3,038 total articles

1. Collateral optimization: the future of collateral management
2. Will leverage ratio cause an FCM concentration crisis?
3. MIFID II: harmonization mandates new business models in the OTC space
4. So Many Margin Models
5. SA-CCR: risk-sensitive FCM capital but still no IM offset
6. Free Webinar: Risk & Reward, Regulation & Revolution
7. Asymmetry of CSAs Causes FVA Costs
8. SwapClear Q&A – More Information on the Cross Margin Announcement
9. NetOTC Bilateral and Multilateral Services – up to 73% IM netting & $9bn savings per year
10. Managing liquidity
11. Portfolio Compression – Techniques to Manage EMIR and Other Regulatory and Trading Risks
12. MAC swaps: not yet needed by dealers
13. Pure Agency: Reducing Client Clearing Bank Capital Burdens
14. Portfolio Compression: Win-Win to Avoid Cherry Picking (Part 3/3)
15. Double MPOR under Basle 3 | Collateral Disputes Carry a High Cost
16. Targeted clearing mandate exemptions could reduce systemic counterparty risk 
17. Are remaining G-SIB shortfalls of Basel III capital more problematic than it seems?
18. The Future of Investment Banking | Oliver Wyman Study
19. Increasing the Margin Period of Risk
20. Clash of the Clearing Titans – Eurex versus LCH.Clearnet

Risk Management – 2,829 total articles

1. Price Alignment Interest
2. Cross Margining at  Eurex Clearing – An Explanation – Part 1 of 3
3. CCPs and Systemic Risk – Are We Really Safer?
4. Cross Margining at Eurex Clearing – An Explanation – Part 2 of 3
5. So Many Margin Models
6. Free Webinar: Risk & Reward, Regulation & Revolution
7. Bilateral Margin Rules – 8 Clues You Need to Know: A Sungard Whitepaper
8. Vendor Support for Dec 1st Bilateral Margin Rules
9. Portfolio Compression – Techniques to Manage EMIR and Other Regulatory and Trading Risks
10. What if the Doctors of OTC Derivatives themselves fall Sick?
11. The Best Kept Industry Get-together Secret – GFII September
12. New Technology for Operational Risk – Fat Finger Errors
13. Clearing a Swap and Future | Split CCPs and Cross-Margining Compared
14. Portfolio Compressions: Winners and Losers – Part 1 of 3
15. Increasing the Margin Period of Risk
16. Clash of the Clearing Titans – Eurex versus LCH.Clearnet
17. Cross Margining Benefits & Capital Savings – PRISMA
18. The Swiss franc blip: time FX leverage limits moved from flat percentage to risk-based?
19. OTC Clearing – Cross-Product versus Cross-Currency Margining
20. The Devil's Derivatives, by Nick Dunbar

Trading – 2,295 total articles

1. Swap Futures – A Comparison of Products
2. LCH-CME Switch Trades and Margin Management
3. Is Collateral Management a Front Office Function?
4. SA-CCR: risk-sensitive FCM capital but still no IM offset
5. Weekly Roundup – 13th July 2014
6. Portfolio Compression – Techniques to Manage EMIR and Other Regulatory and Trading Risks
7. MAC swaps: not yet needed by dealers
8. The Best Kept Industry Get-together Secret – GFII September
9. Weekly Roundup – 6th July 2014
10. New Technology for Operational Risk – Fat Finger Errors
11. Targeted clearing mandate exemptions could reduce systemic counterparty risk
12. Portfolio Compressions: Winners and Losers – Part 1 of 3
13. Are remaining G-SIB shortfalls of Basel III capital more problematic than it seems?
14. Everything you need to know about swap futures – The Trade
15. Weekly Roundup – 3rd August 2014
16. Through a Glass Darkly – Transparency for Non-Equities Under MiFID II/MIFIR
17. 8 Books at 30% Off – Visit the OTCS Palgrave Page
18. Swap Futures – Updated Comparison Chart
19. TABB Fixed Income Conference: tackling reduced trading liquidity in corporate bonds and OTC
20. Dodd-Frank after Four Years

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