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LCH's members comprise many of the major global financial institutions including almost all of the major investment banks, broker dealers and international commodity houses. LCH, being a clearing house, sits in the middle of a trade – assuming the counterparty risk involved when two parties trade and guaranteeing the settlement of the
The swaps that must be traded on SEFs are both subject to a CFTC-centralized clearing mandate and have been determined to be "made available to trade" (MAT) by at least one SEF. Four categories of interest rate swaps and two categories of credit default swaps are currently subject to clearing mandates.
The EU is studying how trillions of euros in interest rate swaps positions could be shifted from LSEG's LCH clearing arm in London, where the bulk of the global market is cleared, to rival ...
A central clearing counterparty (CCP), also referred to as a central counterparty, is a financial market infrastructure organization that takes on counterparty credit risk between parties to a transaction and provides clearing and settlement services for trades in foreign exchange, securities, options, and derivative contracts. CCPs are highly ...
Organisations that perform securities clearing and/or central depository services The main article for this category is Clearing house (finance) . Subcategories
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA / ˈ ɪ z d ə /) is a trade organization of participants in the market for over-the-counter derivatives. It is headquartered in New York City , and has created a standardized contract (the ISDA Master Agreement ) to enter into derivatives transactions.
Clearing houses who clear financial instruments, such as LCH, are generally called central counterparties (CCPs). In the wake of the financial crisis of 2007–08 the G20 leaders agreed at the 2009 Pittsburgh Summit that all standardised derivatives contracts should be traded on exchanges or electronic trading platforms and cleared through ...
A Unique Transaction Identifier (UTI), alternatively called Unique Swap Identifier (Acronym: USI) is a globally unique identifier for individual transactions in financial markets. USIs were introduced in late 2012 in the U.S. in the context of Dodd–Frank regulation, where reporting of transactions to Trade Repositories first became mandatory.