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January 2016

   
'News' Portfolio Compression Breaking into Swaptions 11 January 2016 | Diana Higgins

BGC Partners and Capitalabs announced they removed €800 billion notional in th
   
'Events' OTC Derivatives Summit Asia 11 January 2016 | Samantha Hodgson

This exclusive one-day educational summit will bring together regulators, risk & compliance executives, clearing brokers and exchanges as well as related industry professionals to explore the latest challenges and developments around Clearing Models, CCP Risk Management, CVA Trading, Enterprise Collateral Management and Fundamental Review of Trading Book.
   
'News' Miranda Brawn - Future Leaders in Business Scholarship 08 January 2016 | Miranda Brawn

Miranda Brawn makes pledge to help the next generation of BAME’s in the UK become future leaders in Business to help increase race diversity & equality
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'Articles' A Year of CFTC Fines 07 January 2016 | ClarusFT Feed

aka How to solve the CFTC budget crisis.
   
'Events' New training course: OTC margin and the true cost of clearing 06 January 2016 | Mas Nakachi

Central clearing and bilateral margining for OTC derivatives have a significant impact on both valuation and risk management. With the mandatory clearing deadlines now less than a year away, this training course is for practitioners keen to understand more about the quantitative impact of these changes, with a particular focus on Interest Rate products.
   
'Articles' Cross Margining of Listed Derivatives and OTC IRS & CCP Cleared IRS Switches - An Analysis 06 January 2016 | Byron Baldwin

With the mandatory OTC Clearing timetable now finalised for Europe by ESMA, focus will now feature on the efficiencies of each CCP IRS offering and CCP IRS Switches will undoubtedly increase as Banks seek to minimise capital and funding costs via reduced initial margin requirements, default fund contributions and capital regulatory requirements.
   
'News' CCP Conundrums: LCH.Clearnet White Paper 04 January 2016 | Bill Hodgson

The shifting capital, regulatory and industry landscape has created some unexpected consequences for CCPs. In LCH.Clearnet’s latest white paper, they examine the impact of these challenges on institutions in this new market paradigm.
   
'Articles' PRISMA Margin Estimator (PME) 04 January 2016 | Byron Baldwin

In order to provide our Members and clients with most effective tools to estimate margin requirements, to execute portfolio optimizations or to decide on a clearing venue in general, we partnered with OpenGamma to create a new on-premise margin calculation solution.
   
'News' Risk Reduction when Settling Cross Currency Swaps 04 January 2016 | Bill Hodgson

Currency Swaps settlement can involve very large payments leading to settlement risk - an innovation from Markit and CLS aims to eliminate aspects of this.
   
'News' OTC Clearing in Poland Steps Forward 04 January 2016 | Bill Hodgson

News from the Polish CCP KDPW
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'Articles' Featured Article CCP Notionals Scoresheet | As of Sept 2015 04 January 2016 | Amir Khwaja

Since May Comder in Chile went live and has cleared $44bn of FX NDFs, giving South American businesses a new reduced risk way of transacting business.
     
'Articles' Segregation of initial margin (IM) for non cleared derivatives, legal considerations 04 January 2016 | James Cherry

As a result of the turbulences caused by the global financial crisis, regulators worldwide increasingly focus on derivatives markets. Given the enormous risks posed by the unregulated off-exchange (“over the counter”/ OTC) market, there is a growing recognition that greater transparency in exchange trading significantly contributes to the future stability of the international financial markets.

December 2015

   
'Articles' Lessons from Time Travel and the New Year's Resolutions in Finance and Risk 27 December 2015 | Diana Higgins

This article looks into some of the tasks performed in risk and in finance related to collateral and risk management that may be delivered by one team or the other. Diana proposes a principle to define the border line and to identify the personalities that may enjoy being in one team or the other. 
   
'News' Double VLOOKUP in Excel | Massive Performance Increase 18 December 2015 | Bill Hodgson

For people with very large data sets who need to use VLOOKUP, this trick could transform the time it takes you to recalculate the spreadsheet
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'Articles' Featured Article The Best of 2015 - Happy Christmas from The OTC Space 16 December 2015 | Samantha Hodgson

As of this month we now have more than 3,000 registered readers; It's been a busy year for the world of OTC derivatives, as it has also been for The OTC Space. Take a journey with us back through the most popular content of 2015, and revisit some of the 'best bits'.
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'Articles' Featured Article Collateral management for the buy side: time to take control? 14 December 2015 | Eléonore de Vial

Historically, collateral management has been a task that required complex infrastructure: initial margin value-at-risk (VaR) computations required a risk management system and extensive market data, OTC contract valuation required complex pricing capabilities, and margin call communication remained a very manual and time consuming process, using email and a fax machine.
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'Articles' Featured Article Clearstream Webinar - Available in PDF, MP3, and Video 14 December 2015 | Richard Glen

A number of readers attending the Clearstream webinar about the mandatory margining regulation. The webinar is now available to download as a PDF, MP3 and video.
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'News' New ESMA 14 December 2015 | ESMA Feed

New ESMA website

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'Events' Featured Event The OTC Space Christmas Party 2015 10 December 2015 | Samantha Hodgson

A whole year has gone by since the last time we had a party - the revellers ate and drank their way through the finest drinks and snacks known to man. Come along and help us celebrate our second birthday, and any relevant festival (such as Christmas) at Jamies. 
   
'Articles' EMIR - The Clearing Obligation - All Systems GO!! 08 December 2015 | Byron Baldwin

The start of mandatory OTC Clearing in Europe has now been confirmed to begin for Category 1 participants on 21 June 2016. Who qualifies as Category 1?

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