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Banks Sprint to Comply With Swaps Market Margin Rules

Rules could require more than $790B in collateral; U.S., Japan start Sept. 1

By Silla Brush, Bloomberg | Updated on August 22, 2016

The world’s largest banks are racing to meet a U.S. and Japanese deadline next month when billions of dollars in new collateral requirements will begin to hit the over-the-counter derivatives market, even as new regulatory fault lines emerge.

Firms are testing systems for exchanging collateral for the trades, signing new legal documents and pursuing regulatory approval for models that could help blunt the cost of compliance, according to lawyers, executives and consultants helping firms meet one of the biggest changes in decades to the swaps market. The rules are taking effect in the U.S. and Japan on Sept. 1, while the European Union, Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia have announced delays.

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