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I'll check derivatives into a LinkedIn people search a million people turn up that's roughly the population of Dallas Texas if you're amongst those million and you use the is de master agreements or histor documentation then you will need to know about initial margin for unclear derivatives if you're involved in derivatives at a financial institution asset management firm pension fund or insurance company and required to post or receive initial margin from 2019 or 2020 then you really need to know about the initial margin for unclear derivatives to get the benefit of this video lecture though you will need a strong foundation in the is de Master Agreement and its credit support annex what follows is best suited to those already familiar with global margin reform those who have previously followed the variation margin or VM reforms which applied for March 2017 and want to learn about the i.m reforms and those who may be involved in implementing an initial margin project in 2019 and 2020 this video focuses on the rules and provides an overview of the documentation required for I am I'm Edmund Parker global head of derivatives at Mayor Brown and as part of my practice I focus on the implementation of initial margin requirements as part of the global margin reforms initial margin for unclear derivatives is the exchange of collateral to guard against the margin period of risk the margin period of risk is known in the market as M poor and it's the liquidation period which begins with the last exchange of collateral supporting exposures underneath the Master Agreement until following an early termination date that posted collateral is realized and invested in rehashed transactions initial margin requirements for unclear derivatives I am sit alongside variation margin for unclear derivatives V M V M is the collateral posted under an is de credit support annex to cover immediate default risk for the same exposures under an is de Master Agreement the default risk collateralized by initial margin and variation margin requirements that when and is de Master Agreement is closed out following an event of default or termination event the party closing out will need to enter into replacement hedging transactions in substitute for the ones it has closed out there will either be a profit or loss from arranging this a default risk exists if the party closing out the transaction is net out of the money ie it will on a gross basis have to pay replacement counterparties to enter into those transactions on the same terms the variation margin reforms compelled the world's largest derivative users to add credit support annex --is to the is de master agreements they had with each other this forced them to post collateral against default risk exposure in accordance with globally agreed parameters it also meant that when an event of default or termination event occurred under an in-store Master Agreement the party closing out could apply collected variation margin against the positive mark to market exposure where the closing out party calculates that its transactions have a negative mark to market value ie replacement counterparties would pay to enter into replacement transactions on the same terms it will instead apply posted amounts of collateral against the closeout amount it is required to pay em pour the margin period of risk encompasses the risk that there is not enough collateral posted as VM counterparties are most likely to default at times of extreme market stress this can mean it takes longer to put replacement transactions in place that pricing is more volatile and that the value of collateral posted is less than expected so initial margin am requirements on the global margin reform rules require counterparties to post and collect additional collateral to act as a buffer to cover those risks the extra collateral is posted and segregated by each party I am and VM how did we get here after the 2008 Lehman Brothers bankruptcy politicians and global regulators saw a global margin reform is essential to safeguarding the financial system what began at the September 2009 Pittsburgh g20 meeting as a declaration by financial ministers to shift standardized OTC derivative contracts onto exchanges and central clearing evolved into a demand at the 2011 g20 meeting in can four standards to be developed by the bar Committee on Banking Supervision and the International Organization for Securities Commission to develop standards on margining for non centrally cleared OCC derivatives the standards were finalized as the BCBS IOSCO final framework on initial margin requirements for non centrally cleared derivatives and established phased in international standards known as the uncleared margin rules they contained the two elements of posting variation margin and initial margin the standards were implemented by regulations in each jurisdiction by legislation these were done under the dodd-frank rules in the United States where the Prudential regulator and CFTC margin requirements require swap dealers registered with the CFTC to post and collect I am and through regulatory technical standards under Emir for the European Union similar rules implemented the standards in other key jurisdictions such as Japan Hong Kong Canada Singapore and Asia each of the jurisdictions has however implemented the rules slightly differently but the key element of all of the standards are a they hit the biggest derivative market players and be that for I am they do that in five progressive and your rounds affecting the biggest first and gradually encompassing more counterparty groups the requirement to exchange I am has been phased in across the European Union from March 2017 and the United States from September 2016 capturing counterparties with the largest derivatives portfolios first but eventually covering counterparties with 8 billion euros or equivalent threshold gross notional amount of outstanding uncleared OTC derivatives where a counterparty has a gross notional amount of uncleared OTC derivatives at the relevant thresholds IM in the form of eligible collateral must be exchanged both ways between counterparties the transfer must be made on a gross basis ie free of set-off I am must be calculated on the basis of set methodology then segregated into a third party account backed by a custodial structure established by the leading custodians the phase 1 counterparties comprised the largest derivative dealers in global finance from September 2016 in the United States and February 2017 in the European Union these phase 1 counterparties agreed and executed I am documentation with all of the other phase 1 dealers this was a tough process not least because a tight regulatory timeline ran alongside a race to create market standard template documentation looking at the chart here you can see there's an average aggregate notional amount of outstanding derivatives of 3 trillion euros was required to get a financial institution group into the phase 1 Club the phase two counterparties became in scope in September 2017 few in number they had to put I am compliant documentation in place with firstly all of the phase 1 counterparties and secondly with the phase 2 counterparties that each had existing derivatives arrangements with them those with 2.25 trillion euros average aggregate notional amount outstanding of derivative fell in scope within phase 2 the phase 1 and phase 2 dealer groups were joined on 1st September 2017 the phase 3 phase in date by a handful of further institutions the threshold moved down from 2.25 trillion euros to 1.5 trillion euros as the threshold lowers the range of financial institutions in scope begins to diversify and in 2017 it included the first by side entity estimates vary but with a threshold of 750 billion euros there may be as many as 70 new lien scope counterparty groups in phase 4 which commences and comes into force on 1st September 2019 as with earlier phases the phase for counterparty groups will need to enter into I am compliant document sets with paired entities in counterparty groups in their own phase and also earlier phases phase 5 the final phase coming into effect on 1st September 20 20 X counterparties with a gross notional amount of uncleared OTC derivatives at a measurement point above 8 billion euros some estimates placed a number of affected counterparty groups as high as 1,200 am I in or out of scope for a particular phase that's one of the big questions for any counterparty group the rules require counterparty groups to look at the aggregate average notional amount of outstanding covered derivatives for the last business day of March April and May of each year for all entities in the group measured over the observation period covered derivatives include all non-cleared derivatives transactions including intra-group transactions counting these only once generally speaking the calculation captures all entities which consolidate into financial statements the calculation is complicated by moving exchange rates and applicable thresholds applying in different currencies depending on the applicable regime for example United States dollars for dodd-frank and euros for Amir up on the diagram here is an illustration of how I am is held this diagram will apply for each pairing between counterparty groups we have two counterparties looking here at the top part of the diagram party a post sits I am amount to a secured account with its custodian party a is called the pledge or or charge or the amount of I M which must be posted is determined under either an approved model such as sim or by the regulatory prescribed table which is known as the grid or the scheduled sim the standard initial margin method is a scalable and stress tested model which involves calculating the margin to be posted based on risk factors and agreed data sources a security interest or pledge over the I M and account with the custodian is granted to party B party B is the secured party looking at the bottom part of the diagram party B is also required to post I M to its custodian it may be the same custodian or it may not be for example party A's custodian could be the Bank of New York Mellon and party B's custodian could be Euroclear the two sets of posted I am cannot be netted against each other they must be segregated party B will also post its initial margin to an account held with its custodian under this arrangement party B will be the pledged or and party a the secured party I am is only required to be posted between paired counterparties with an exposure fresh hold exceeding fifty million dollars for the United States margin regulations and 50 million euros for the EU margin regulations the exposure is achieved on a shared basis across counterparty groups this means that a counterparty pairing can be required to put a full infrastructure package in place even though there's a relatively thin trading base and the threshold may never be met this is a more detailed slide showing an iamb bilateral arrangement but highlighting the documentation these parties will have than is the master agreement in place between them under this sits a collateral agreement each of party a and party B will put and the collateral agreement in place where a party has appointed a custodian other than euro clear or clear stream the collateral agreement is an IM credit support deed which establishes I am arrangements for uncleared swaps this is represented in the diagram by the box titled custodian one I am CSD this collateral agreement is adapted from the 1995 is de credit support deed as with the 1995 is de credit support deed the document is in standalone format and is not an annex to the ister Master Agreement the credit support deed is referred to as a CSD when it is governed by English law when it is governed by New York law it is called a credit support annex and it is an inner form adapted from the 1994 is de New York law credit support annex where the custodian is Euroclear or Clearstream the collateral agreement is a collateral transfer agreement a CTA in the case of U of or clear stream this is represented in the diagram by the box titled custodian to CTA under the collateral agreement that charge or charges the segregated accounts and any collateral in them in favor of the secured party and assigns the chargers assigned rights to the secured party these assigned rights are defined as all present and future rights relating to the collateral which the charge or has against the securities intermediary or any third party each custodian will put in place a bilateral custody agreement between it and the pledge or which will govern the arrangements for holding an account this is represented in the top left and the bottom right corners of the diagram in the yellow and green boxes the custody agreement is a bilateral agreement which establishes the custody relationship with the party posting collateral the charge or and the custodian that custody agreement also provides for the opening of segregated accounts to hold I am collateral the accounts are used for transfers by the charge or of eligible collateral under the collateral agreement each custodian will also put in place a security agreement which provides the custodian in its capacity as securities intermediary with the security required for supporting a charge or in the three-way arrangement finally all custodians will also put in place 3-way account control agreements the parties to the account control agreement are the charge or the secured party and the securities intermediary so the charge or is the collateral provider pledging that I am which is the subject of the CSD or the CTA the secured party is the collateral receiver recieves IM by way of pledge from the charge or and the securities intermediary is the custodian holding the IM in its accounts following a termination event or event of default on the the is de master agreement the custodian may only release the I M as provided and permitted in the akha more of which later the akka also provides that the secured party is prohibited from re hypothecated reap legend or reusing or transferring collateral held in the accounts from time to time through securities lending securities borrowing repurchase agreements reverse repurchase agreements or by other means the next two slides demonstrate the complex jigsaw which makes up the documentation package the diagram shows the documentation package where one party has appointed Euroclear as its custodian and the other party has appointed BNY Mellon as its custodian where the party is based in Europe it will document its collateral agreement as the collateral poster on the English law and where the party is based in the United States it will document its collateral agreement under New York law at the top is the is de master agreement and schedule between party a and party B which will govern all of their is de governs uncleared derivatives transactions in the second row on the left side for the party which has appointed euro clear and I am CTA is put in place under English or New York law for the party appointing BNY Mellon if the governing law of its collateral agreement is New York law then a credit support annex is put in place with its counterparty and if the collateral agreement is governed by English law then a credit support deed is put in place on the far right of the second row there will be at least one further credit support annex a single CSA will be in place to cover variation margin requirements ie the variation margin requirements put in place for counterparties on 1st March 2017 as these rules only apply to transactions entered into after first marks at 2017 there will also be a legacy sayers CSA for all transactions entered into before then looking at the euro clear side of the slide a Belgian security law agreement is in place which integrates with a further set of Euro clear documents the operating procedures of the Euro clear system the collateral service agreement which is the equivalent of the account control agreement and the terms and conditions governing the use of Euro clear moving to the BNY Mellon side of the diagram BNY Mellon has an account control agreement security agreement and custody agreement in place the scale of the task of comply ng with I am SEC requirements can be massive we have just been through the documentation requirements for a single pairing but this documentation infrastructure arrangement must be put in place for each pairing between counterparty groups so a phase for counterparty may have ten in scope entities within its counterparty group which are having to put in place I am documentation platforms with other paired counterparties on a micro level this in scope counterparty may find that it has five different is de master agreements in place with a phase two counterparty these could be with diverse members of the group perhaps a bank in Brazil an asset manager in Island the parent bank in France and two others it's possible that the matched entities have appointed multiple custodians to so a phase four of phase five in scope counterparty may find itself putting hundreds of documents in place let's take a look at the credit support deed in a little more detail a proper detailed review we'll be the subject of a later video the I am credit support feed is based on the 1995 is de credit support deed it was rather like the at and hash tag symbols on a keyboard of limited usage until brought in and revitalized by a new technology the iron credit support deed has some important key features it also has some important differences with its predecessor these include provisions for determining the types of trade caught by I am requirements that covered transactions determining how I am must be held the transfer provisions provisions for the Prevention of rehypothecation for using segregated accounts and custody Arrangements determining the frequency of I am exchange determining the amount of I am to be posted through definitions of credit support amount margin amount and minimum transfer amount providing for what type of collateral can be delivered ie what is eligible collateral and what is ineligible collateral and determining which regulatory regimes apply a collateral agreements regime table allows the parties to comply with the multiple regulatory regimes which may apply on the one agreement for example a party may be based in the United States and so need to comply with the dodd-frank rules its counterparty may be based in Spain and need to comply with a mere other regimes may also require compliance where members of the group are based in another jurisdiction so the collateral agreement will provide that I am exchanged must meet the requirements of each regime applying to the parties a regime table in the schedule to the credit support deed or collateral agreement allows the parties to elect whether a regime is applicable or not applicable for each party where two regimes conflict the strictest the regimes apply the most important provisions in the account control agreement are those which provide access to the posted initial margin as either the charge or or the secured party may be the defaulting party or affected party under the histor Master Agreement different provisions apply the applicable events of default and termination events are specified in the is de Master Agreement schedule these are NEC events if an NEC event occurs in relation to the charge or and an early termination event occurs the secured party may deliver a notice of exclusive control to the security's intermediary upon receipt of the notice of exclusive control the security's intermediary must promptly notify the charge or by sending an email to the charge or default email address after delivering the notice the secured party may exercise sole and exclusive control of the accounts the security's intermediary must in reliance upon the secured party's notice of exclusive control transfer the collateral pursuant to the written instructions of the secured party alternatively a control event notice may be given by the charge or where the charge or is the defaulting party or affected party here the charge or has provided a statement to the secured party in respect of the early termination date pursuant to section 6 D of the is de Master Agreement and either the amount under Section six e of the is de Master Agreement payable to the charge or is zero or this amount was payable by the charge or but has been discharged in full together with any accrued interest this will then allow the charge or to exercise sole and exclusive control of the accounts and the collateral by delivering a control event notice to the security's intermediary this however is subject to contest rights set out in the account control agreement the ayam documentation infrastructure has the benefit of legal opinion support for each jurisdiction where there is an is de opinion there are now two supplements a collateral provider insolvency opinion and a collateral taker insolvency opinion extending those original is de opinions to cover the main template collateral agreements individual custodians are also commissioning opinions which may be relied on by their customers and apply to their custody documentation there are two competing technology solutions for managing the iron process these solutions will be released imminently to the market margin exchange is an online platform created by Allen & Overy IHS market and smart DX which describes its role as providing information reconciliation document generation negotiation and execution case management and a full data export the other solution is is to create which is created by ESDA and Linklaters and describes itself as an online solution to produce deliver negotiate and execute documents and capture process and store data from these documents as of December 2018 neither solution has been fully released to the market so as we have covered the scale of preparing for I am is massive from a documentation perspective and the documentation perspective is just part of the task preparing operationally is massive - this has been the first part of a series on initial margin if you made it this far I hope you join us for further parts thank you