Planning for Phase 5 Initial Margin Requirements for Uncleared Swaps
Monday, June 3rd, 2019 is the first day in the June, July, August calculation period for determining the average daily aggregate notional amount (AANA) under U.S. uncleared margin rules to assess whether a market participant is in-scope for the Phase 5, September 1, 2020 initial margin compliance date. We encourage clients to begin to calculate their AANA numbers to determine whether any of their trading vehicles exceed the USD 8 billion material swaps exposure threshold across all of their relevant uncleared swaps, security-based swaps, foreign exchange forwards and foreign exchange swaps. We also encourage clients who have not already done so to engage now in dialogue with their regulated counterparties about this process and to review the ISDA published initial margin documentation.Download our PDF to read the full article.