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ISDA offers snapshot of 2020 margin growth

23 April 2021 UK
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The International Swaps and Derivatives Association has published its latest margin survey which analyses the amount and type of IM and VM for entities captured under each phase of UMR last year, compared to 2019

Q1 cleared contracts highest ever, OCC says

06 April 2021 US
Reporter: Alex Pugh

March was OCC's highest month on record for total cleared contract volume, just shy of a billion contracts, with securities lending also seeing a significant uptick

J.P. Morgan executes first TRS via Tradeweb based on IHS Markit iBoxx index

29 Mar 2021 US
Reporter: Drew Nicol

J.P. Morgan has completed the first fully electronic standardised total return swap based on IHS Markit’s iBoxx USD Liquid High Grade Index, through the Tradeweb Swap Execution Facility

DTCC advances plan to harmonise global derivatives reporting

16 March 2021 US
Reporter: Drew Nicol

In a new white paper, DTCC has outlined a three-pronged plan to further harmonise derivatives trade reporting requirements and deliver against the objectives that were originally established by the G20

AcadiaSoft and LMRKTS complete ISDA SIMM PoC

04 March UK
Reporter: Drew Nicol

A network of global financial institutions participated in the first PoC with the second planned this month

AcadiaSoft acquires Quaternion to bolster risk management capabilities

04 February 2021 UK
Reporter: Natalie Turner

The Quaternion division of AcadiaSoft will be led by its co-founders CEO Donal Gallagher, and chief technology officer Roland Lichters

Broadridge to become an approved SFT submitter for DTCC

28 January 2021 UK
Reporter: Natalie Turner

Broadridge is building and testing in its role as an SFT submitter for the new SFT clearing service offered by DTCC’s NSCC, which is expected to launch in Q3

Citi launches new futures algorithm platform

26 January 2021 US
Reporter: Natalie Turner

Citi’s new flagship algorithm, Arrival, comes as part of a suite of intelligent execution algorithms for global listed derivatives and engineered for the futures markets across all major exchanges in the North America, Europe and Asia Pacific