TradeMech: A Method to Multilaterally Net Trades Without Altering Counterparty Exposure (opens in new tab)

Financial markets such as bond, derivatives, and repo markets form networks of interdependent obligations. Existing multilateral netting methods typically trade off the extent of netting against preservation of counterparty exposure: central clearing reallocates exposure to a central counterparty, while trade compression may alter bilateral counterparty relationships. TradeMech is a mechanism for markets in which one or two homogeneous fungible ...