SEC OK’s DTCC’s Cross-Margining Arrangement

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has approved the Depository Trust & Clearing Corp.’s “one-pot” crossing-margining arrangement between fixed-income positions cleared by DTCC and interest-rate futures positions cleared by New York Portfolio Clearing.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has approved the Depository Trust & Clearing Corp.’s “one-pot” crossing-margining arrangement between fixed-income positions cleared by DTCC and interest-rate futures positions cleared by New York Portfolio Clearing. The approval allows the DTCC’s Fixed Income Clearing Corp. for the firs time to participate in an arrangement that brings together fixed-income cash and derivatives positions in a single margin calculation.

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