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That was approximately 11.6 percent of the minimum collateral requirement for MF Global.
Bank of America estimates that $4.5 billion of cash and collateral requirement on derivatives would be needed to cover a one-notch downgrade, but added that it had already posted $2.9 billion of that with customers.
"If you operate outside the borders of the US, they don't trust you one inch," laments Julian James, head of international business at Lloyd's of London, which writes 38% of its business in America.The collateral requirement was established because of worries about regulatory standards abroad, and the financial strength of global reinsurers.
Table 3 Pearson correlation coefficient matrix Collateral requirement Small business support services Awareness of funding opportunities Structure of financial sector Access to finance Collateral requirement 1 0.331 0.054 0.564a 0.087 Sig.
It was found that there was a positive correlation between collateral requirement and small business support services (r = 0.331).
It was also found that there was a positive correlation between collateral requirement and structure of financial sector (r = 0.564, sig. 0.1, two-tailed).
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About one-third of OTC trades require no margin or collateral requirements at all.
That would subject the contracts to margin and collateral requirements.
While Mr. Dimon admits raising collateral requirements, he denies causing the demise of Lehman or Merrill.
"Weaker collateral requirements mean the policyholders are at greater risk," he said.
Whereas banks could tailor collateral requirements to the nature of their customers, CCPs will impose uniform margin requirements on everyone.
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