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Variation margin requirements deadline looms

Published on: 29 August 2017

Table of contents

  • What are the margin requirements that are set to be implemented by September 2017?
  • Why were these requirements pushed back from the original March 2017 deadline?
  • How has the market prepared itself in the past 6 months to comply with the new deadline?
  • What happens if a market participant is not ready to comply with the requirements by 1 September?
  • What is the next deadline that market participants need to look to start complying with in relation to margin?

Article summary

Banking & Finance analysis: Certain margin requirements are due to be implemented by 1 September 2017. Dr Sharon Brown-Hruska, PRIME Finance Expert and former Chairman and Commissioner, Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) discusses the implementation of these margin requirements and how the market has prepared itself to comply with them.

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