Why Margin
reform?
Margin Reform helps clients operating in the financial sector to provide strategy, insight and delivery across derivatives, repo and securities lending for the margin, collateral and legal domains.
Our senior industry practitioners and transformative service model reduces the time to market on key revenue ideas, brings clarity to regulatory demands and competitive advantage to your most challenging problems.
Margining
All products exchange-traded, cleared and uncleared derivatives, repo and securities lending needs to be led by well-defined business objectives supported by efficient and cost-effective technology.
Risk and operational functions need industry connected systems to support straight-through processing and an environment where governance, controls and regulatory compliance are paramount and understood.
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Collateral
Margin Reform will bring clarity to your understanding of all aspects of collateral such as pricing, funding, liquidity, optimisation, operational capacity and risk.
Whether to support business P&L, cost drivers, regulations, or enhancing existing processes and requirements such as Clearing, Initial Margin, Reporting, Custody and Optimization are a necessity.
Legal
The complexity and far-reaching impact of G20 regulatory reforms (Clearing, UMR, SFTR, CSDR & IBOR) have led to a market understanding that data is critical and this requires improved negotiation techniques, smarter technology and increased digitisation.
Margin Reform is at the forefront of these solutions and can help you deliver the required technological and business process models.
months required to complete a UMR project
revenue opportunity p.a. for every €1bn of lent assets
of €20.6 trillion assets globally have been lent across asset classes*
*At Q3 2019 www.isla.co.ukNumber of data fields required for SFTR compliance
Number of firms expected to be impacted by SFTR
Number of new relationships subject to Phases 5 and 6 of UMR
The 'Wheel of Pain' highlights the key steps, risks, issues and pitfalls which need to be addressed
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External Comms
Early engagement with clients, vendors and custodians -
External Training
Market impact and outcomes with regulators requirements -
Internal Comms
Central co-ordination to manage your group wide compliance delivery -
Internal Training
Regulatory impact on role and BAU know-how for stakeholders
THE WHEEL OF PAIN
For firms impacted by UMR regulatory change needs to be solved over short period of time. This requires a fundamental re-design of your collateral management model to recalibrate, enhance and optimise your approach from the traditional credit mitigation role and springboard collateral as a key value driver for the firm.
Self disclosure
Identify subjected products and trades, calculate your group AANA and formally self-disclose all impacted relationships to the industry.
Client Engagement
Determine your trading partners, establish jurisdictional compliance and exchange responses for your bilateral margin requirements.
Rule Distillation
Complete an internal examination of the rules per jurisdiction, identify gaps, risks and create mitigation plans as part of self-attestation.
Legal Agreements
Negotiate and match eligible collateral schedules and utilise golden terms to drive processing.
Custodial onboarding
Agree how to pledge Initial Margin through your custodian and onboard with your counterparty's agent. Negotiate, execute, test and configure internally and externally.
Technology
Determine the impact on collateral processing, settlement, reconciliations, connectivity to internal functions and the external collateral ECO system.
Operations
Operating model design and implementation to support new processes, increased volumes and the management of risk and compliance.
Optimisation
Understand the impact of collateral usage on your balance sheet, funding and liquidity metrics. Transform and mobilise collateral in support of P&L generation.
IM Model Ownership
Determine the IM model and calculation approach. Develop, integrate and test all requirements including any backtesting, benchmarking, documentation, governance and validation.
THE WHEEL OF PAIN
For firms impacted by UMR regulatory change needs to be solved over short period of time. This requires a fundamental re-design of your collateral management model to recalibrate, enhance and optimise your approach from the traditional credit mitigation role and springboard collateral as a key value driver for the firm.
Self disclosure
Identify subjected products and trades, calculate your group AANA and formally self-disclose all impacted relationships to the industry.
Client Engagement
Determine your trading partners, establish jurisdictional compliance and exchange responses for your bilateral margin requirements.
Rule Distillation
Complete an internal examination of the rules per jurisdiction, identify gaps, risks and create mitigation plans as part of self-attestation.
Legal Agreements
Negotiate and match eligible collateral schedules and utilise golden terms to drive processing.
Custodial onboarding
Agree how to pledge Initial Margin through your custodian and onboard with your counterparty's agent. Negotiate, execute, test and configure internally and externally.
Technology
Determine the impact on collateral processing, settlement, reconciliations, connectivity to internal functions and the external collateral ECO system.
Operations
Operating model design and implementation to support new processes, increased volumes and the management of risk and compliance.
Optimisation
Understand the impact of collateral usage on your balance sheet, funding and liquidity metrics. Transform and mobilise collateral in support of P&L generation.
IM Model Ownership
Determine the IM model and calculation approach. Develop, integrate and test all requirements including any backtesting, benchmarking, documentation, governance and validation.
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Chetan Joshi
Founder,
COO
Chetan Joshi
Founder,
COO
Chetan Joshi is the Founder, COO of Margin Reform. Chetan has over 20 years’ experience across the margin and collateral domain, having held roles at RBS, JPMorgan Chase, Barclays, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Standard Chartered in operations, change management, technology and front office and a previous consultancy role with Baringa Partners.
Shaun Murray
Managing Director,
CEO
Shaun Murray
Managing Director,
CEO
Shaun Murray is the Managing Director, CEO of Margin Reform. Shaun is a seasoned professional with over 30 years of international experience working in Europe, Asia, Australia and the US where he has focused on enterprise-wide collateral management, credit risk, funding, liquidity and strategy at BT, RBS, Greenwich Capital and SCB.

AcadiaSoft
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Cassini Systems
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CloudMargin
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CubeLogic
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D2 Legal Technology
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OpenGamma
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OpenRisk Technologies
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Pirum
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