The Situation: The Financial Services Agency of Japan has introduced an amending ordinance regarding margin requirements for over-the-counter derivatives transactions. The Result: Certain financial ...

The requirement that non-cleared swaps be fully margined, which is one of the last pillars of Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank), will take effect ...

Variation margin (VM) comes under the microscope in the Bank for International Settlement’s (BIS) Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI) and the International Organisation of ...

FIA has responded to a discussion paper released by international standard setters that sets out eight “effective practices” for streamlining variation margin in centrally cleared markets. The ...

TriOptima is seeing an uptick in interest in its triResolve Margin service as the implementation date of new margin variation rules for non-cleared over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives gets ever closer.

Derivatives trading bodies are pushing for US agencies to ease rules on how client cash margin held by banks is calculated as part of their capital exposures. A group of US regulatory agencies have ...

Cash has long dominated variation margin (VM) for uncleared derivatives, but that dominance is being tested. Rising funding costs, regulatory pressures and repeated episodes of market stress are ...