Increased fear of counterparty default is pushing many institutions to seek reliable clearing solutions. Now, for the first time, the US buy-side can access LCH.Clearnet’s SwapClear via a futures commission merchant model. Floyd Converse, head of SwapClear US sales and marketing, explains the VIEW SUMMARY

In 2009, while the industry was still reeling from the financial crisis, Eurex Clearing was busy developing additional solutions to help customers rein-in risk. In fact, the leading European clearing house has been performing real-time risk monitoring since June 2009, as Eurex Clearing’s Head of VIEW SUMMARY

Never has the need for efficient management around over-the-counter derivatives business been more crucial, or such a focus, as it is today. BNY Mellon discusses how, with its collateral management services, it has helped clients achieve greater operational efficiency. VIEW SUMMARY

BNY Mellon this year launched Derivatives Collateral Net (DCN), a unique netting service for derivatives collateral management. Scott Linden and Mark Robinson of BNY Mellon talk about how they see it transforming the industry. VIEW SUMMARY

On 30 July 2009, in response to the industry commitment on 17 February to introduce central counterparty in over-the-counter (OTC) credit default swaps (CDS) in Europe by the end of July 2009, Eurex Credit Clear successfully started CDS clearing. VIEW SUMMARY

Omgeo outlines the challenges being faced by collateral managers since the collapse of Lehman Brothers 12 months ago, and how these challenges to standardisation and automation can bring the collateralising community together. VIEW SUMMARY

Continuing our focus on derivatives collateral management, this month we talk to Mark Higgins and Scott Linden from BNY Mellon, about the latest initiatives around derivatives collateral management and their vision for the future of the market. VIEW SUMMARY

Post-trade processing is a complex and expensive operational overhead. Processing remains manually intensive and new derivative products created in the front office leave the middle and back office fighting fires to settle transactions, rather than delivering value to the organisation. VIEW SUMMARY

As an institution that has already embraced outsourcing, Deutsche Bank outlines its vision for delivering greater efficiency and value from the back office. Read how Deutsche Bank analysed its reconciliations processes and its reasoning behind choosing to move to the TCS Aspire Service. VIEW SUMMARY

This case study looks at how CLSA, a leading Equity Brokerage and Research House in the Asia Pacific region has eradicated manual, time consuming processes and achieved greater operational control over their entire transaction lifecycles with SmartStream’s TLM® Reconciliations. VIEW SUMMARY