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Commentary by Steven Lofchie

The SEC adopted a rule that any SEC-registered central clearing agency that provides central clearing of U.S. Treasury securities ("USTs") shall require its members to centrally clear (i) most repurchase and reverse repurchase transactions in USTs to which it is a counterparty and (ii) certain cash market purchases and sales of USTs.

Commentary by Steven Lofchie

The SEC proposed (i) amendments to current requirements on clearing agencies’ risk-based margin systems and (ii) a new rule on the content of clearing agencies' recovery and wind-down plans. On May 24, representatives from J.P. Morgan, Wells Fargo, Sia Partners and Fried Frank will address the implications of this rulemaking and the SEC's separate proposal on mandatory central clearing.