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Its early years have been bumpy – the Mt Gox clearinghouse for the digital currency went bankrupt after cyberthieves made off with some $500m or so of clients' assets – and its long-term fate remains uncertain.
While Mr White spoke approvingly of the bank clearinghouse associations that existed in the 1920s and before, Mr Hoenig made the sensible point that it is impossible to eliminate risk by moving it from one group of private firms (banks) to another (the private insurers).
Ultimately, as Ben Bernanke observed more than twenty years ago, the clearinghouse system works in part because the government stands behind them as utilities.
This caps the risk to the clearinghouse by transferring it to the futures traders.
A central derivatives clearinghouse , for example, is a commonsense reform.
A handful of companies have sprung up offering payment cards that pull money directly from a customer's bank account through the "automated clearinghouse " network, which was originally set up to settle cheque payments and now also handles electronic ones.
Nerves on Wall Street would be jangling less if a central clearinghouse , planned for later this year, was already up and running.The CDS market may have figured in the government's calculations of whether to save AIG, given that its collapse would have forced banks to write down the value of their contracts with the insurer, further straining their capital ratios.
LCH.Clearnet, the clearinghouse , rapidly netted out and liquidated Lehman's entire interest rate swap portfolio without imposing losses on any counterparties.**The best examples of this are in the world of commodity swaps.
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If the goal is to protect the clearinghouse from defaulting, the existing differentiation is not unreasonable.
Likewise, having a clearinghouse that collects margin and is capitalised by fees from members should make it easier to cancel out positions and minimise counterparty losses in the event of default.*The easiest way to make the swaps markets behave more like the futures markets is to encourage the existing futures exchanges to create products that displace swaps.
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The primary grammatical function of "clearinghouse" is that of a noun , typically used to describe an agency or organization that collects, sorts, and distributes information. As Ludwig AI confirms, the usage is grammatically correct and widespread.
Expression frequency: Very common
