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Clearing capacity, margin adequacy and bank capital emerge as top concerns for agricultural end users
Summary
Industry and committee members warned clearing capacity is strained and called for margin frameworks and coordination with banking regulators so farmers and other end users retain access to affordable hedging tools.
Members from farm states and industry witnesses told the committee they worry clearing capacity and margin practices increasingly threaten end-user access to derivatives that producers use to hedge price risk.
Alicia Crichton of the Futures Industry Association highlighted two pressures on capacity: margin adequacy and bank capital rules that may reduce intermediaries'…
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