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Higher capital requirements for banking organizations have significant impacts on the ability of banks to provide clearing services for their customers. We are working with regulators to promote risk-reducing effects of clearing while at the same time, preserve a strong and diverse community of clearing firms.

  • ISDA, SIFMA and FIA comments on enhanced supplementary leverage ratio reforms

    FIA, ISDA and SIFMA strongly support the proposed recalibration of the Enhanced Supplementary Leverage Ratio and urge the Federal Reserve, FDIC, and OCC to finalize the proposal as soon as possible, with an effective date no later than 1 January 2026.

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  • Joint trades call for recalibration of cryptoasset prudential standards and highlight DLT’s transformative role in capital markets

    The Joint Trades recommend essential revisions of the Basel banking prudential treatment of cryptoassets and pausing implementation of SCO60 ahead of its January 2026 effective date to allow for a targeted consultation and redesign. The letter highlights the excessively conservative and overly punitive capital treatment of cryptoassets that is misaligned with actual risks, in addition to various inconsistencies with current market risk management practices.

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  • FIA responds to FICC proposed default management and porting rules for its agent clearing service model

    FIA submitted a comment letter to the SEC responding to FICC’s proposed default management and porting rules for its agent clearing service model.

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  • FIA joins trade associations in publishing discussion paper on cross product margining and netting

    FIA, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association and the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association have published a discussion paper that provides an overview of cross-margining programs developed by clearing organizations and their importance in the context of implementing market reforms to US Treasury securities clearing.

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