Notice of Proposed Rulemaking – Regulatory Capital Rules: Standardized Approach for Risk-weighted Assets; Market Discipline and Disclosure Requirements

Letter to Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. This response is targeted to the specific risk-based capital requirements for derivative and repo-style transactions that are cleared on central counterparties (CCP Rules). (OCC RIN 1557-AD46; OCC Docket ID OCC-2012-0009; FRB RIN 7100 AD 87; FRB Docket No. R-1442; FDIC RIN 3064-AD96)

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Remove Bureaucracy from Cross-margin Approvals

Cross-margining programs play a critical role in financial markets. By ensuring margin requirements more closely reflect the actual risk of a portfolio of products, they reduce liquidity strain and improve market efficiency, both of which will become even more important...

Joint Response on CCP Resolution

On September 7, ISDA and FIA responded to a Bank of England (BOE) discussion paper on central counterparty (CCP) resolution. The associations support greater clarity on valuation capabilities prior to a crisis scenario and the boundary between recovery and resolution,...