So much activity in financial markets is collateralized now that, for banks, the once obscure process of managing stores of security of varying quality – from cash to treasuries to corporate bonds and even equities – and posting it where it achieves the best value is becoming ever more important and ever more strained.
In its yearly margin survey, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (Isda) found that amid the pandemic-related volatility in 2020, variation margin collected by the biggest so-called phase one firms for non-cleared derivatives increased by 29.8%
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