Resources
Our Resources page is here to help you learn more about the challenges facing the clearing community, and to understand the solutions that SwapClear is working on in partnership with our members and clients to overcome them. Here are a few of the thought leadership pieces we’ve been working on lately:
LCH SwapClear is the central counterparty (CCP) of choice for delivering access to global, cleared over-the-counter (OTC) rates markets and deep interest rate swap (IRS) liquidity. Discover more about EUR clearing with LCH SwapClear here.
This document is designed to provide SwapClear participants with a high-level overview of the SwapClear CAD CDOR Conversion process, including timelines, operational design and trade booking considerations, and a summary of the reporting and analytical tools supporting the conversion process.
To help the market prepare for future RFR transitions, SwapClear have published a guide highlighting key planning considerations.
This consultation document sets out LCH’s proposals for converting SwapClear’s MXN 28D-TIIE contracts ahead of 31 December 2024.
This document provides details around the feedback received during the consultation phase and outlines the final LCH’s CAD CDOR conversion approach.
This consultation document sets out LCH’s proposals for converting SwapClear’s CAD CDOR contracts ahead of cessation.
This document is designed to provide SwapClear participants with a high-level overview of the SwapClear SGD SOR and THB THBFIX Conversion processes, including timelines, operational design and trade booking considerations, and a summary of the reporting and analytical tools supporting the conversion process.
This document is designed to provide SwapClear participants with a high-level overview of the SwapClear USD LIBOR Conversion process, including timelines, operational design and trade booking considerations, and a summary of the reporting and analytical tools supporting the conversion process.
This consultation document sets out LCH’s proposals in connection with THB THBFIX cessation, including the potential conversion of SwapClear’s THB THBFIX contracts, prior to index cessation.
This consultation document sets out LCH’s proposals in connection with SGD SOR cessation, including the potential conversion of SwapClear’s SGD SOR contracts, prior to index cessation.
This consultation document sets out LCH’s proposals for converting SwapClear’s USD LIBOR contracts ahead of cessation.
As the CCP of choice for delivering access to global OTC rates markets, LCH SwapClear leads the way in USD Swaps Clearing.
As the first CCP to introduce inflation swap clearing, LCH continues to lead the way to even greater efficiencies and capital optimisation.
With access to deep liquidity in 26 currencies, SwapClear users are driving sustained growth in IRS clearing.
Clearing houses play a crucial role in ensuring global markets run smoothly. It is therefore vital that CCPs continuously evaluate their risk practices. LCH views and manages risk through four key lenses.
LCH is engaged with the industry and regulators in an effort to clarify standards for portfolio margining across CCPs and inform derivatives market participants. In this paper, we explain how the regulatory standard of "significant and reliably correlated" can be interpreted to recognise the benefits of both high and low correlations, and discuss the trade-offs between the level and stability of correlations.
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LCH SMART is SwapClear’s award-winning solution for managing initial margin requirements, enabling our members and their clients to simulate portfolio risk exposure in real-time. By allowing users to perform instantaneous and consistent "what-if" margin calculations, our clients are able to estimate initial margin requirements prior to clearing.
This briefing deconstructs, in plain English, phase two of the CFTC's Legally Segregated, Operationally Commingled (LSOC) rule to protect clearing member and client collateral.
In addition, LSOC: Principles and Implementation is our easy to understand briefing introducing LSOC and SwapClear's interpretation of it. This paper is intended to answer all of your LSOC questions.
Unsure of which interest rate swaps are mandated to clear under US clearing rules are which are not? Fear no more. Our Mandatory Clearing Checker can easily and immediately tell you which interest rate swaps are mandated for clearing in the US. Just submit the basic trade characteristics including swap class, currency, floating rate index and tenor, to receive a quick determination about your trade. Job done.
In September 2008, SwapClear successfully managed Lehman Brothers' $9 trillion interest rate swap default by implementing our unique default management process.
The default comprised more than 66,000 trades. Within three weeks, the default was fully resolved, well within the margin held and at no loss to other market participants.
LCH developed this process with its clearing members, who play an invaluable role in providing trade expertise and access to market liquidity during a default.
Stephen O’Connor, managing director at Morgan Stanley and chairman of ISDA, said: “The aim of the default management process is to manage the closeout of a member institution in an orderly fashion, with the minimum of disruption to the markets and without incurring credit losses at LCH or at other member firms. LCH and the bank members of the default management group executed on a well-tested plan in volatile markets and achieved these goals with distinction.”
The Bank of England noted that the ability of LCH to close out positions without using up all available margin “illustrates the ability of a clearing house to protect market participants from bilateral counterparty risk, even in the event of default of a major participant”. (The Bank of England’s Financial Stability Report, October 2008)
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