We use payments data for the period 2006-09 to study the impact of the global financial crisis on payment patterns in CHAPS, the United Kingdom's large-value wholesale payments system. CHAPS functioned smoothly throughout the crisis and all CHAPS settlement banks continued to meet their payment...

Designated market makers (DMMs) have traditionally been a source of liquidity for exchange-traded securities and financial contracts. Recent regulatory and technological developments, however, have changed the environment in which DMMs operate, raising questions about their place in the new...

Over-the-counter derivatives (OTCDs) have been at the centre of regulators' and policymakers' attention owing to widespread concerns that these markets contributed to the build-up of systemic risk in the 2007/08 financial crisis. In 2009 the G20 initiated a reform programme that aims to increase...

In the event of a clearing member's default, and as part of its default management process, a central counterparty (CCP) will need to hedge the defaulter's portfolio and to close-out its positions. However, the CCP may not be able to do this without incurring additional losses if the market is...

Using primary dealer transactional data from the UK government bond (gilt) market, we identify a new channel through which dealer funding constraints may impair liquidity in two-tiered OTC markets. The key finding is that funding constraints also inhibit dealers' ability to accommodate each...

We use transactional data from the USD and EUR segments of the plain vanilla interest rate swap market to assess the impact of the Dodd-Frank mandate that US persons must trade certain swap contracts on Swap Execution Facilities (SEFs). We find that, as a result of SEF trading, activity...