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By Steven Anderson
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What the Filing Actually Does. FICC filed advance notice SR-FICC-2025-801 in December 2025, seeking SEC no-objection under…
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Implementation Remains Open. The no-objection to the advance notice does not mean cross-margining for customers starts…
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The Securities and Exchange Commission issued a notice of no objection on April 10, 2026, to an advance notice from the Fixed Income Clearing Corporation seeking to expand its…
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Until now, the FICC-CME cross-margining setup only covered proprietary positions of clearing members and their eligible affiliates.
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Less collateral tied up means more capital available for trading. That's the pitch, and for firms running large Treasury books alongside interest rate futures, the math could be…
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FICC filed advance notice SR-FICC-2025-801 in December 2025, seeking SEC no-objection under Section 806(e)(1) of the Dodd-Frank Act.
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Separately, FICC filed a proposed rule change (SR-FICC-2025-025) to amend its Government Securities Division rules and incorporate the new agreement.
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Two filings, two tracks. The advance notice cleared. The rule change has not.
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The DTCC, which is FICC's parent organization, has been working on the cross-margining expansion for months.
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For the broader Treasury clearing landscape, the timing matters. The SEC has been pushing toward mandatory central clearing for Treasury securities, with compliance dates already…
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FICC filed Partial Amendment No. 2 to the advance notice on March 4, 2026, addressing some of these operational details.
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The SEC has not published a timeline for its decision on the proposed rule change SR-FICC-2025-025.
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