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LCH.Clearnet outlines CCP stress-testing framework
31 March 2015 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

LCH.Clearnet has outlined its suggestions for a stress-testing framework for central counterparties, identifying three key principles for the tests: transparency, simplicity and comparability...

Eurex Clearing in compliance with PFMI
27 March 2015 Frankfurt
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Eurex Clearing is in full compliance with the CPSS-IOSCO Principles for Financial Market Infrastructure, according to an updated compliance report...

CPMI and IOSCO start stress testing review
12 March 2015 Madrid
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

The Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures and the International Organization of Securities Commissions have begun a review of stress testing by CCPs...

EU court rejects ECB’s clearinghouse policy
05 March 2015 Luxemburg
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Euro clearinghouses do not need be based in the single currency area, the EU’s second highest court has ruled...

Natixis joins Eurex securities CCP
29 January 2015 Paris
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Natixis has become the first French bank to be a clearing member of Eurex’s securities lending central counterparty (CCP) and has also joined Eurex OTC Clear...

Industry ready for the impact of T2S
22 January 2015 Stuttgart
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

A majority of financial industry participants believe that T2S will have a significant impact on their organisations, but custodians and central banks don’t expect to be heavily affected...

ESMA and SFC sign CCP agreement
19 January 2015 Hong Kong
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

ESMA has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission to recognise Hong Kong CCPs in Europe...

ESMA cooperates with Australian regulators
11 December 2014 Sydney
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

ESMA has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Australian Securities and Investment Commission and the Reserve Bank of Australia to cooperate regarding CCPs...

LCH.Clearnet welcomes CCP reform
05 December 2014 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Initial margin must remain the most important defence for CCPs, while stress-testing and transparency of results is the key to increasing confidence in them...

Central clearing has a way to go, says Fed governor
11 November 2014 Chicago
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

The global initiative to expand use of central clearing and central counterparties in over-the-counter trades is making progress but still has significant hurdles to overcome...

Bank of England expands access to SMF
07 November 2014 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

The Bank of England is widening access to its Sterling Monetary Framework and will now accept broker-dealers and CCPs...

EU to recognise third country CCPs
31 October 2014 Brussels
Reporter: Stephen Durham

The European Commission has adopted its first equivalence decisions for the regulatory regimes of CCPs in Australia, Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore...