Collateralization or margining is used to reduce credit exposure or credit risk after using netting and other methods. In a break clause, single payment of collateral happens at the beginning of the trade and at the time of cancellation or termination while for reset feature collateral is paid periodically to reduce credit risk exposure due […]
Continue Reading... No Comments.Below are the important Life Cycle Events for Trades (especially OTC Derivatives trades) Amendment: Trade attributes or Contact terms can be modified before maturity date of the trade through mutual agreement with the counterparty. Post amendment, the trade contract may have to undergo post-trade processing again with the new contract details. Amendment can be off […]
Continue Reading... No Comments.Phase 1: Pre-trade All steps before trading activities are categorized into the pre-trade phase. The below processes are part of Pre-Trade phase 1. On boarding – On boarding is the process of adding a new customer or a trading partner for trading purposes. On boarding exercise includes preparation of service agreements, relationship agreements and finalization […]
Continue Reading... No Comments.As per Dodd Frank act for USA and all the other acts in different G20 countries, all the OTC derivatives transactions have to be reported to the regulator. Regulators do not have the necessary architecture to collect and store all the transactions in OTC derivatives across different regions. For the purpose, GTR or Global Trade […]
Continue Reading... No Comments.MiFID stands for Markets in Financial Instruments Directive. European Commission first adopted MiFID I in April 2014 and proposed in November 2007, just before the 2008-09 financial crisis with the key objective of increasing competition in financial market and protect consumers. Post Financial crisis in 2008, European Commission submitted proposals to revise the Markets in […]
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