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Oct 13, 2017

Eurex Clearing

EurexOTC Clear Release 8.0: Scope enhancement

With EurexOTC Clear Release 8.0, Eurex Clearing AG (Eurex Clearing) will achieve technical readiness to offer Clearing Members an alternative treatment of their Variation Margin (VM) payments with respect to their proprietary OTC IRS transactions as settlement rather than collateral.

Eurex Clearing will introduce a new contract model for OTC IRS transactions, called “settled-to-market” (STM), where VM payments are legally treated as settlement.

STM contracts will be structured as follows:

  1. All of the outstanding transaction exposure arising from such contracts will be fully and finally settled on a daily basis.
  2. The terms will be reset daily so that the market value of such contracts will be zero. The economics of the transaction will not be affected by the switch to STM.