collateral transformation

December 2nd, 2012	Factors to Consider When Selecting A Clearing Broker
November 16th, 2012	Balancing the Shortage of High Quality Collateral
May 28th, 2012	Collateral Optimization – Your Questions Answered InteDelta’s Nick Newport and SunGard’s Ted Allen offer answers to some audience questions from a recent DerivSource collateral optimization webinar.
October 26th, 2011	Collateral Transformation, Silver Bullet or Smoke and Mirrors?
May 19th, 2013	Strategies for Effective Collateral Management in the New OTC Derivatives Industry June 13th at 10am EST/3pm BST Sponsored by Omgeo In a complimentary webinar, a panel will discuss the various strategies buy-side firms, mid-tier banks and end users can adopt to establish a future-proof collateral management operation capable of supporting greater margin requirements with both uncleared and CCP cleared derivatives.
March 12th, 2013	Will Collateral Management be the New Custody? Custodians are stepping up their collateral management capabilities in anticipation of the increased margin needs of clients who will soon have to centrally clear and may opt to outsource instead of manage in-house. Lynn Strongin Dodds explores how collateral management may be evolving to look more like custody as asset servicer’s capabilities and client needs converge.
March 6th, 2013	Collateral Management: How do you compare to your peers? DerivSource will be reporting exclusively on the results of an Aite Group collateral management benchmark report that will explore the dynamics of collateral optimisation and collateral transformation for the buy side, sell side, service providers and software vendors.
November 22nd, 2012	Collateral Transformation – Has it Lost its Lustre? Collateral transformation is not the cure-all liquidity solution it was once praised to be for the buy side. Lynn Strongin Dodds explores the changing view of collateral transformation as miracle cure to last resort liquidity sourcing tool among both asset managers and service providers.
October 4th, 2012	Q&A: The New Collateral Management Workflow for the Buy Side Buy-side firms will clear eligible derivatives via FCMs instead of directly through the clearinghouses, which requires its own specific collateral management workflow. In a Q&A, State Street's Neil Wright explains how the collateral management workflow is changing for investment managers as needed to support new demands from CCP clearing and rising collateral requirements under new financial regulations for bilateral contracts.
April 23rd, 2012	Collateral Optimisation Strategies - Drivers & Challenges in Improving Margin Management to Support CCP Clearing Collateral optimisation strategies can range from simply identifying the cheapest-to-deliver assets to much more sophisticated strategies, which include optimisation algorithms. In a Q&A SunGard’s Ted Allen explains the drivers and challenges firm face when implementing collateral optimisation strategies used by to support central clearing of cleared swaps and increased demands for capitalisation. Q. What is collateral optimisation exactly? What are the drivers influencing plans for most firms you work with?

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SEF Rules Passed by CFTC this Week

After much anticipation, the CFTC passed final rules on the governance of swap execution facilities (SEFs) including rules on the minimum quotes required and swaps block rules.

Views vary on many elements of the newly approved rules with some industry participants believing the rules to be fair and others very problematic.

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