The Past, Present, and Future of Asset Segregation

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This guest article was written by Akber Datoo and Paul Watkins. Akber Datoo is the founder and managing partner of D2 Legal Technology, Paul Watkins is a consultant for D2 Legal Technology.

As the market moves towards a new model that demands that vanilla OTC interest rate swaps must now be cleared through a Central CounterParty (CCP) – starting April 2016 and becoming standard procedure for major clients in the period up to late 2018  – the implications of the change have been creating waves.

In terms of client protection, the primary aim of EMIR is to provide for the “porting” of ... (read more)