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Central clearing configurations : implications for South African derivative markets

Dissertation (MSc (Financial Engineering))--University of Pretoria, 2021.

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spelling oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/80177 Central clearing configurations : implications for South African derivative markets Van Vuuren, Gary t.saayman@gmail.com Saayman, Ammi Terence Central counterparty (CCP) Counterparty risk Clearing mandate Over-the-counter derivatives Netting efficiency UCTD Dissertation (MSc (Financial Engineering))--University of Pretoria, 2021. After the financial crisis of 2008-2009, central counterparties (CCPs) emerged as an important mechanism to mitigate against counterparty credit risk and stem the spread of contagion in a time of crisis. Trading in derivative instruments, especially opaque, illiquid and complex in-struments, were seen as the cause of much of the quagmire in which the global economy found itself. At the Pittsburgh summit in 2009, the Group of 20 Nations (G20) made some fundamental commitments on the reform of international derivatives markets. One of the main commitments was to have standardised OTC derivatives cleared through central coun-terparties by the year 2020. In South Africa, the only CCP is the clearing house for exchange traded derivatives operated by the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE); five major South Af-rican banks are direct clearing members of JSE Clear. Most of the standardised OTC deriva-tive transactions are interest rate, and to a much lesser degree forex, in nature. The London Clearing House (LCH) clears the vast majority of centrally cleared ZAR interest rate swaps. All South African banks clear most of their trades executed with foreign counterparts at LCH but only one has a subsidiary that is a direct clearing member of LCH. There is a large amount of ZAR interest rate swap activity in SA which is not centrally cleared. This study examines the efficiency and dynamics of central clearing in this setting. It further notes the recent de-velopments in the current central clearing landscape and compares aspects thereof in South Africa to international CCPs. The framework developed by Duffie & Zhu (2011) is then used to examine efficiencies of different configurations of central clearing of derivatives in the South African context. Mathematics and Applied Mathematics MSc (Financial Engineering) Unrestricted 2021-05-31T14:18:44Z 2021-05-31T14:18:44Z 2021-09 2021 Dissertation * S2021 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/80177 © 2019 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria
spellingShingle Central counterparty (CCP)
Counterparty risk
Clearing mandate
Over-the-counter derivatives
Netting efficiency
UCTD
Central clearing configurations : implications for South African derivative markets
title Central clearing configurations : implications for South African derivative markets
title_full Central clearing configurations : implications for South African derivative markets
title_fullStr Central clearing configurations : implications for South African derivative markets
title_full_unstemmed Central clearing configurations : implications for South African derivative markets
title_short Central clearing configurations : implications for South African derivative markets
title_sort central clearing configurations implications for south african derivative markets
topic Central counterparty (CCP)
Counterparty risk
Clearing mandate
Over-the-counter derivatives
Netting efficiency
UCTD
url http://hdl.handle.net/2263/80177