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Corporates remain on swaps fallback sidelines
Risk.net analysis finds just 14 out of 100 large non-financial firms have signed up to Isda fallback protocol Print this page
Non-financial corporates have been slow to sign up to a Libor fallback protocol devised by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, with just 14 out of 100 of the largest listed companies adopting the standard language to future-proof swaps contracts, according to research by
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The analysis was conducted across the top 25 non-financial constituents by market capitalisation in four major stock market indexes. The data show six of the largest 25 corporates in both the S&P 500
Simm template to be expanded for SA-CCR and FRTB
Crif-plus will capture risk exposures for all instruments, boosting optimisation potential Print this page
The standard industry template used to calculate margin requirements for non-cleared trades is being extended to a wider range of instruments in a bid to improve portfolio optimisation under incoming counterparty credit and market risk frameworks.
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association is working with core users of its standard initial margin model, or Simm, to create a beefed-up version of the common risk interchange format (Crif) it uses to capture the risk sensitives of in-scope
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Credit-sensitive SOFR add-on could be included in Isda’s interest rate definitions by mid-April Print this page
New standards are being drawn up for trading in swaps referencing Bloomberg’s short-term bank yield index (BSBY), one of a handful of credit-sensitive benchmarks vying for a place in the post-Libor markets.
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association has created documentation that would govern trading in BSBY swaps, which was sent to members on March 23. Following a comment period, the new benchmark will be added to the trade body’s interest rate definitions in mid-April.
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BoJ working group timetable viewed as likely to boost liquidity in nascent Tonar market Print this page
Dealers have welcomed proposals by the industry committee overseeing Japan’s transition to risk-free rates that would prevent banks offering new yen Libor interest rate swaps by the third quarter this year.
A report published by a subgroup of the Bank of Japan-led Cross-Industry Committee on Japanese Yen Interest Rate Benchmarks for its March 26 meeting proposed that the trading of new Japanese Libor interest rate swaps maturing after 2021 should cease no later than the end of September, except
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“Utility is success,” Thomas Edison once claimed, arguing he wasn’t motivated to invent things that didn’t sell well: if no-one used them, what was the point?
Firms with competing visions of a more robust post-trade architecture for futures and options might bear this in mind. Market participants think standardizing trade allocations could prevent a repeat of the chaos that resulted from the thousands of trade breaks witnessed during last year’s Covid volatility, with many calling for a new
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