Are the arguments for more skin in the game valid? John McPartland, Director of Research at Hidden Road Partners LP thinks not.

As derivatives markets look toward a post-pandemic era, Dawn DeBerry Stump, Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, discusses the importance of education and collaboration in emerging stronger from the crisis.

Closer collaboration among CCP practitioners and academic finance and economic faculty is a good thing. Suitably anonymised data upon which detailed analysis can be performed will enable a better understanding of the role of CCPs in modern financial markets, writes John P. Davidson, Chief Executive Officer of the Options Clearing Corporation (OCC)

The growing dialogue between academia, policymakers, and the post-trade industry can only work to the benefit of all sides, particularly as complex questions around issues such as market liquidity and procyclicality gain traction, writes WFE’s Head of Research, Pedro Gurrola.

John McPartland has been a central banker, settlement banker, senior executive of two FCMs and deputy manager of a major CCP during a 45-year career in the industry

Ron Berndsen, Professor of Financial Market Infrastructures at Tilburg University, chair of the Risk Committees of LCH Ltd and LCH SA, and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Financial Market Infrastructures

David Murphy, Prudential Policy Directorate, Bank of England

Michael McClain, General Manager of Equity Clearing and DTC Settlement Services, DTCC

Vikram Kothari, Managing Director, National Securities Clearing Corporation Limited (NSCCL) at National Stock Exchange of India Limited