RBA: Assessment of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. against the Financial Stability Standards for Central Counterparties Standard 21: Regulatory Reporting

A central counterparty should inform the Reserve Bank in a timely manner of any events or changes to its operations or circumstances that may materially impact its management of risks or ability to continue operations. A central counterparty should also regularly provide information to the Reserve Bank regarding its financial position and risk controls on a timely basis.

21.1 A central counterparty should inform the Reserve Bank as soon as reasonably practicable if:

  1. it breaches, or has reason to believe that it will breach:
    1. a CCP Standard; or
    2. its broader legislative obligation to do, to the extent that it is reasonably practicable to do so, all things necessary to reduce systemic risk;
  2. it becomes subject to external administration, or has reasonable grounds for suspecting that it will become subject to external administration;
  3. a related body to the central counterparty becomes subject to external administration, or if the central counterparty has reasonable grounds for suspecting that a related body will become subject to external administration;
  4. a participant becomes subject to external administration, or if the central counterparty has reasonable grounds for suspecting that a participant will become subject to external administration;
  5. a participant fails to meet its obligations under the central counterparty's risk control requirements or has its participation suspended or cancelled because of a failure to meet the central counterparty's risk control requirements;
  6. it fails to enforce any of its own risk control requirements;
  7. it plans to make significant changes to its risk control requirements or its rules, policies and procedures;
  8. it or a service it relies on from a third party or outsourced provider experiences a significant operational disruption, including providing the conclusions of its post-incident review;
  9. any internal audits or independent external expert reviews are undertaken of its operations, risk management processes or internal control mechanisms, including providing the conclusions of such audits or reviews;
  10. its operations or risk controls are affected, or are likely to be affected, by distress in financial markets;
  11. it has critical dependencies on utilities or service providers, including providing a description of the dependency and an update if the nature of this relationship changes;
  12. it proposes to grant a security interest over its assets (other than a lien, right of retention or statutory charge that arises in the ordinary course of business);
  13. it proposes to incur or permit to subsist any loans from participants or members unless such loans are subordinated to the claims of all other creditors of the central counterparty; or
  14. any other matter arises which has or is likely to have a significant impact on its risk control arrangements (see also CCP Standards 1.6, 16.10 and 19.3).

21.2 A central counterparty should also provide to the Reserve Bank, on a timely basis:

  1. audited annual accounts;
  2. management accounts on a regular basis, and at least quarterly;
  3. risk management reports, including detailed information on margining and stress testing, on a regular basis, and at least quarterly;
  4. periodic activity, risk and operational data, as agreed with the Reserve Bank; and
  5. any other information as specified by the Reserve Bank from time to time.

CME has undertaken in the Bank's favour to meet the reporting requirements set out in this CCP Standard.