Compression eases capital, risk bottlenecks amid CNH swap boom

Dealers say that the introduction of multilateral compression for US dollar/CNH cross-currency swaps at Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing OTC Clear will help to relieve growing regulatory capital, margin and settlement limit pressures amid a recent boom in trading of the offshore renminbi contracts.A first run, involving five financial institutions, was conducted by HKEX OTCC using post-trade ...