Document ID: SEC-2019-1852-0001
Agency: sec
Document Type: Notice
Title: Self-Regulatory Organizations; Proposed Rule Changes: The Options Clearing Corp.
Posted Date: 2019-12-12T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 239 (Thursday, December 12, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 67981-67985]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-26727]

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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

[Release No. 34-87673; File No. SR-OCC-2019-807]

Self-Regulatory Organizations; The Options Clearing Corporation; 
Notice of No Objection To Advance Notice Related to Proposed Changes to 
The Options Clearing Corporation's Rules, Margin Policy, Margin 
Methodology, Clearing Fund Methodology Policy, and Clearing Fund and 
Stress Testing Methodology To Address Specific Wrong-Way Risk

December 6, 2019.

I. Introduction

    On October 10, 2019, The Options Clearing Corporation (``OCC'') 
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (``Commission'') 
advance notice SR-OCC-2019-807 (``Advance Notice'') pursuant to Section 
806(e)(1) of Title VIII of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and 
Consumer Protection Act, entitled Payment, Clearing and Settlement 
Supervision Act of 2010 (``Clearing Supervision Act'') \1\ and Rule 
19b-4(n)(1)(i) \2\ under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 
(``Exchange Act'') \3\ to revise OCC's Rules, margin policy and 
methodology, Clearing Fund policy, and Clearing Fund and stress testing 
methodology to adopt new margin charges and other risk measures to 
address the specific wrong-way risk presented by certain cleared 
positions.\4\ The Advance Notice was published for public comment in 
the Federal Register on November 12, 2019,\5\ and the

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Commission has received no comments regarding the changes proposed in 
the Advance Notice.\6\ The Commission is hereby providing notice of no 
objection to the Advance Notice.
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    \1\ 12 U.S.C. 5465(e)(1).
    \2\ 17 CFR 240.19b-4(n)(1)(i).
    \3\ 15 U.S.C. 78a et seq.
    \4\ See Notice of Filing infra note 5, at 84 FR 61114.
    \5\ Securities Exchange Act Release No. 87476 (Nov. 6, 2019), 84 
FR 61114 (Nov. 12, 2019) (File No. SR-OCC-2019-807) (``Notice of 
Filing''). On October 10, 2019, OCC also filed a related proposed 
rule change (SR-OCC-2019-010) with the Commission pursuant to 
Section 19(b)(1) of the Exchange Act and Rule 19b-4 thereunder 
(``Proposed Rule Change''). 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(1) and 17 CFR 240.19b-
4, respectively. In the Proposed Rule Change, which was published in 
the Federal Register on October 29, 2019, OCC seeks approval of 
proposed changes to its rules necessary to implement the Advance 
Notice. Securities Exchange Act Release No. 87387 (Oct. 23, 2019), 
84 FR 57890 (Oct. 29, 2019). The comment period for the related 
Proposed Rule Change filing closed on November 19, 2019.
    \6\ Since the proposal contained in the Advance Notice was also 
filed as a proposed rule change, all public comments received on the 
proposal are considered regardless of whether the comments are 
submitted on the Proposed Rule Change or the Advance Notice.
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II. Background \7\
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    \7\ Capitalized terms used but not defined herein have the 
meanings specified in OCC's Rules and By-Laws, available at https://www.theocc.com/about/publications/bylaws.jsp.
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    As a central counterparty (``CCP''), OCC is exposed to its Clearing 
Members' positions. To the extent that the value of a Clearing Member's 
positions is positively correlated with the creditworthiness of the 
Clearing Member, OCC faces specific wrong-way risk (``SWWR'').\8\ OCC 
proposes changes to address such SWWR. Specifically OCC proposes to: 
(1) Adopt a new SWWR margin add-on charge for OCC's margin methodology 
(``SWWR Add-on''); (2) introduce stress test scenarios to measure the 
SWWR, to the extent not addressed in margin, of cleared positions 
involving Clearing Member-issued exchange-traded notes (``ETNs''); and 
(3) impose restrictions on stock lending activity cleared by OCC.\9\
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    \8\ SWWR arises when an exposure to a participant is highly 
likely to increase when the creditworthiness of that participant is 
deteriorating. See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 78961 
(September 28, 2016), 81 FR 70786, 70816, n. 317 (October 13, 2016) 
(S7-03-14) (``Covered Clearing Agency Standards'').
    \9\ OCC also proposes clarifying and conforming changes to the 
Clearing Fund Methodology Policy (``CFM Policy'') and Stress Testing 
and Clearing Fund Methodology Description (``Methodology 
Description'').
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A. SWWR Margin Add-on

    As a general matter, OCC uses its System for Theoretical Analysis 
and Numerical Simulations (``STANS'') methodology for calculating 
Clearing Member margin requirements. OCC also incorporates add-on 
charges to address risks not otherwise addressed by its STANS 
methodology.\10\ OCC proposes to adopt a new margin add-on to address 
SWWR at the Clearing Member account level (i.e., the SWWR Add-on). The 
SWWR Add-on would address SWWR presented by cleared positions involving 
equities and ETNs issued by a Clearing Member and its affiliates and 
would comprise three components: (1) ``SWWR Equity Charge,'' (2) ``SWWR 
ETN Charge,'' and (3) ``SWWR Residual.'' Each of these components is 
discussed below.
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    \10\ See e.g. Securities Exchange Act Release No. 86119 (Jun. 
17, 2019), 84 FR 29267 (Jun. 21, 2019) (approving implementation of 
an add-on charge ``to guard against potential shortfalls in margin 
requirements that may arise due to the costs of liquidating the 
portfolio of a defaulted Clearing Member.'')
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1. SWWR Equity Charge
    The proposed SWWR Equity Charge is based on the assumption that, 
when a Clearing Member defaults, the value of any equity security 
issued by the Clearing Member or its affiliates would fall to zero. For 
purposes of calculating the SWWR Equity Charge, OCC would value a 
Clearing Member's positions accordingly (i.e., all stocks, single stock 
futures, call options, and put options would be valued at zero).\11\ 
Any potential gain from the SWWR positions would be excluded by 
defining the minimum SWWR Equity Charge as zero. OCC stated that the 
purpose of the SWWR Equity Charge would be to provide protection from 
the risk of potential market exposure to products based on a Clearing 
Member Group's own equity in a default or bankruptcy scenario.\12\
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    \11\ Because the SWWR arising from equities issued by a Clearing 
Member or its affiliates would be fully covered as part of margins, 
OCC proposes to remove such positions from Clearing Fund 
calculations under OCC's Clearing Fund methodology and would revise 
its Methodology Description accordingly.
    \12\ See Notice of Filing, 84 FR at 61116.
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2. SWWR ETN Charge
    The SWWR ETN Charge would be designed to address the risk that the 
value of open positions related to uncollateralized ETNs issued by a 
Clearing Member or its affiliates would be correlated with the Clearing 
Member's credit quality. Similar to the SWWR Equity Charge, the SWWR 
ETN Charge assumes that a degradation in the value of securities issued 
by a Clearing Member or its affiliates would occur concurrently with 
the Clearing Member's default. The SWWR ETN Charge, however, would not 
assume a complete loss of value for the relevant securities (i.e., ETNs 
issued by the Clearing Member or its affiliates). OCC states that such 
uncollateralized ETNs are generally equivalent to unsecured senior 
debt.\13\ OCC, in turn, proposes to utilize an industry standard 
recovery rate assumption designed to reflect potential losses to ETN 
positions for the purpose of setting the SWWR ETN Charge component of 
the SWWR Add-on.
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    \13\ See Notice of Filing, 84 FR at 61117.
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3. SWWR Residual
    The SWWR Residual would ensure that implementation of the SWWR Add-
on would not reduce a Clearing Member's overall margin 
requirements.\14\ To determine the SWWR Residual, OCC would first 
calculate a ``base margin'' under on OCC's current methodology (i.e., 
not assuming any specific degradation in the value of securities issued 
by a Clearing Member or its affiliates). Next, OCC would calculate a 
``residual margin,'' which would represent the Clearing Member's margin 
requirement for only those positions unaffected by the SWWR Equity 
Charge and SWWR ETN Charge. Finally, the SWWR Residual would be the 
difference between the residual margin and the base margin; however, 
OCC would adjust the value of the SWWR Residual if the sum of the SWWR 
Equity Charge, SWWR ETN Charge, and SWWR Residual would otherwise 
reduce a Clearing Member's margin requirement.
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    \14\ OCC noted that where a customer of a Clearing Member has 
net short positions referencing that Clearing Member's issued 
equities, such positions may actually present ``right-way risk,'' 
whereby the position would result in a gain or margin credit for 
that account as the credit quality of the Clearing Member 
deteriorates. See Notice of Filing, 84 FR at 61117, n. 20.
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B. SWWR Stress Test Scenarios

    As noted above, the proposed SWWR ETN Charge would not assume a 
complete loss of value for ETNs issued by a Clearing Member or its 
affiliates. The SWWR Add-on, in turn, would not generate margin 
requirements designed to cover a scenario in which the recovery rate 
for such ETNs would be zero. To address such a scenario, OCC proposes 
to introduce new scenarios into the set of stress tests that OCC uses 
to test the sufficiency of its financial resources (``SWWR Sufficiency 
Scenarios''). To construct the SWWR Sufficiency Scenarios, OCC would 
revise certain of its existing stress test scenarios by assuming a 
value of zero for ETNs issued by a Clearing Member or its affiliates. 
OCC stated that the introduction of SWWR Sufficiency Scenarios would 
enable OCC to more accurately measure its credit risks as they relate 
to SWWR and better test the sufficiency of its overall financial 
resources as well as to call for additional resources as 
appropriate.\15\

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OCC believes, therefore, it would have sufficient financial resources 
to cover the SWWR associated with SWWR ETN positions if such positions 
were to be liquidated for less than the assumed recovery rate.\16\
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    \15\ See Notice of Filing, 84 FR 61117. OCC's current rules 
authorize OCC to call for additional resources based on the results 
of stress scenarios used to test the sufficiency of OCC's financial 
resources. See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 83735 (Jul. 27, 
2018), 83 FR 37855 (Aug. 2, 2018) (SR-OCC-2018-008). OCC's rules 
also authorize adjustments to OCC's monthly Clearing Fund sizing 
process based on the results of stress scenarios used to test the 
sufficiency of OCC's financial resources. OCC believes, however, 
that SWWR is more appropriately charged to the Clearing Member 
presenting the risk. See Notice of Filing, 84 FR at 61118. Based on 
that belief, OCC proposes to revise the CFM Policy such that the 
results of the SWWR Sufficiency Scenarios would not be used to 
adjust OCC's monthly Clearing Fund sizing.
    \16\ See Notice of Filing, 84 FR at 61117.
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C. Stock Lending Restrictions

    Through its stock loan programs,\17\ OCC novates stock loan 
transactions and becomes the lender to each Borrowing Clearing Member 
and the borrower to each Lending Clearing Member. OCC is exposed to 
SWWR in such programs when a Clearing Member lends equity securities or 
ETNs issued by the Clearing Member or its affiliates. To mitigate such 
risks, OCC proposes prohibiting Clearing Members from lending equity 
securities or ETNs issued by the Clearing Member or its affiliates 
within OCC's stock loan programs. OCC does not believe that the 
proposed prohibition would have a material impact on Clearing Members 
because Clearing Members do not typically lend their own equity 
securities, and borrowers do not typically accept equity securities 
issued by their lending counterparty.\18\ Further, market participants 
are able to engage in, and would continue to be able to engage in, 
securities lending on an uncleared basis outside of OCC.\19\
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    \17\ OCC operates programs for clearing stock loan transactions 
initiated either bilaterally between market participants or through 
anonymous matching by a Loan Market. See Notice of Filing, 84 FR at 
61115-16.
    \18\ See Notice of Filing, 84 FR at 61116.
    \19\ The proposed restrictions on lending activity cleared by 
OCC would not prevent Clearing Members from lending equities or ETNs 
issued by the Clearing Member or any affiliate outside of OCC.
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    OCC proposes to implement the prohibition on Clearing Members 
lending their own securities only on a going-forward basis. The 
proposal would not affect stock lending activity cleared by OCC before 
the implementation of the prohibition. Existing stock loan transaction 
would, however, be subject to the SWWR Add-on described above.

III. Commission Findings and Notice of No Objection

    Although the Clearing Supervision Act does not specify a standard 
of review for an advance notice, the stated purpose of the Clearing 
Supervision Act is instructive: To mitigate systemic risk in the 
financial system and promote financial stability by, among other 
things, promoting uniform risk management standards for systemically 
important financial market utilities (``SIFMUs'') and strengthening the 
liquidity of SIFMUs.\20\
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    \20\ See 12 U.S.C. 5461(b).
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    Section 805(a)(2) of the Clearing Supervision Act \21\ authorizes 
the Commission to prescribe regulations containing risk-management 
standards for the payment, clearing, and settlement activities of 
designated clearing entities engaged in designated activities for which 
the Commission is the supervisory agency. Section 805(b) of the 
Clearing Supervision Act \22\ provides the following objectives and 
principles for the Commission's risk-management standards prescribed 
under Section 805(a):
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    \21\ 12 U.S.C. 5464(a)(2).
    \22\ 12 U.S.C. 5464(b).
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     To promote robust risk management;
     to promote safety and soundness;
     to reduce systemic risks; and
     to support the stability of the broader financial system.
    Section 805(c) provides, in addition, that the Commission's risk-
management standards may address such areas as risk-management and 
default policies and procedures, among other areas.\23\
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    \23\ 12 U.S.C. 5464(c).
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    The Commission has adopted risk-management standards under Section 
805(a)(2) of the Clearing Supervision Act and Section 17A of the 
Exchange Act (the ``Clearing Agency Rules'').\24\ The Clearing Agency 
Rules require, among other things, each covered clearing agency to 
establish, implement, maintain, and enforce written policies and 
procedures that are reasonably designed to meet certain minimum 
requirements for its operations and risk-management practices on an 
ongoing basis.\25\ As such, it is appropriate for the Commission to 
review advance notices against the Clearing Agency Rules and the 
objectives and principles of these risk management standards as 
described in Section 805(b) of the Clearing Supervision Act. As 
discussed below, the Commission believes the changes proposed in the 
Advance Notice are consistent with the objectives and principles 
described in Section 805(b) of the Clearing Supervision Act,\26\ and in 
the Clearing Agency Rules, in particular Rules 17Ad-22(e)(4) and 
(6).\27\
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    \24\ 17 CFR 240.17Ad-22. See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 
68080 (October 22, 2012), 77 FR 66220 (Nov. 2, 2012) (S7-08-11). See 
also Covered Clearing Agency Standards, 81 FR 70786. The Commission 
established an effective date of December 12, 2016 and a compliance 
date of April 11, 2017 for the Covered Clearing Agency Standards. 
OCC is a ``covered clearing agency'' as defined in Rule 17Ad-
22(a)(5). The Commission established an effective date of December 
12, 2016 and a compliance date of April 11, 2017 for the Covered 
Clearing Agency Standards. OCC is a ``covered clearing agency'' as 
defined in Rule 17Ad-22(a)(5).
    \25\ 17 CFR 240.17Ad-22.
    \26\ 12 U.S.C. 5464(b).
    \27\ 17 CFR 240.17Ad-22(e)(4) and 17 CFR 240.17Ad-22(e)(6).
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A. Consistency With Section 805(b) of the Clearing Supervision Act

    The Commission believes that the proposal contained in OCC's 
Advance Notice is consistent with the stated objectives and principles 
of Section 805(b) of the Clearing Supervision Act. Specifically, as 
discussed below, the Commission believes that the changes proposed in 
the Advance Notice are consistent with promoting robust risk management 
in the area of credit risk, promoting safety and soundness, reducing 
systemic risks, and supporting the stability of the broader financial 
system.\28\
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    \28\ 12 U.S.C. 5464(b).
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    First, the Commission believes that the adoption of the SWWR Add-on 
would be consistent with the promotion of robust risk management at 
OCC. To the extent that the value of a Clearing Member's positions is 
positively correlated with the creditworthiness of the Clearing Member, 
OCC faces SWWR. OCC's current margin methodology does not incorporate a 
specific component designed to address SWWR for cleared positions. As 
described above, the proposed SWWR Add-on would address SWWR arising 
out of equities and ETNs issued by the relevant Clearing Member or its 
affiliates underlying a Clearing Member's cleared positions. Further, 
the SWWR Add-on would be designed to avoid any unintended reduction in 
margin requirements resulting from ``right-way risk'' in a Clearing 
Member's accounts.\29\ Adopting an add-on charge to address a risk not 
captured elsewhere in OCC's margin methodology would provide for more 
comprehensive management of OCC's risks, consistent with the promotion 
of robust risk management.
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    Second, the Commission believes that introduction of the SWWR 
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promotion of robust risk management at OCC. The ETN component of the 
SWWR Add-on would not address the exposures presented by a complete 
loss of value for ETNs issued by the Clearing Member or its affiliates. 
To address the potential credit exposure represented by the value of 
such ETNs going to zero, OCC proposes to introduce the new SWWR 
Sufficiency Scenarios described above. OCC would use the SWWR 
Sufficiency Scenarios to test its total financial resources. 
Introducing new scenarios to test the sufficiency of OCC's financial 
resources generally and to address assumptions underlying OCC's margin 
methodology more specifically (i.e., a non-zero ETN recovery rate), 
would be consistent with the promotion of robust risk management.
    Third, the Commission believes that the collection of resources to 
address the exposures discussed above and the proposed prohibition of 
certain stock lending activity as described above would be consistent 
with the promotion of safety and soundness at OCC. The collection of 
additional financial resources, whether in margin or Clearing Fund 
contributions, would better enable OCC to manage the potential losses 
arising out of a Clearing Member default. Prohibiting certain stock 
loan activity that could generate losses in the event of a Clearing 
Member default would avoid those potential losses all together. 
Avoiding or holding resources to address such losses would promote 
OCC's safety and soundness.
    Finally, the Commission believes that the proposal is generally 
consistent with reducing systemic risk and supporting the broader 
financial system. As discussed above, OCC proposes to identify and 
manage SWWR posed by the cleared positions of its Clearing Members. OCC 
proposes to collect resources to address such risks as margin and, for 
more extreme scenarios, as Clearing Fund contributions. Additionally, 
OCC would prohibit stock loan transactions that give rise to SWWR. 
Prohibiting such activity and collecting additional margin to 
collateralize exposures created by permitted activity could reduce the 
probability that OCC would mutualize a loss arising out of the close-
out of a defaulted Clearing Member that generated SWWR. While 
unavoidable under certain circumstances, reducing the probability of 
loss mutualization during periods of market stress could reduce the 
transmission of financial risks arising from a Clearing Member default 
to non-defaulting Clearing Members, their customers, and the broader 
options market. Further, OCC maintaining additional Clearing Fund 
contributions would further reduce the potentiality that OCC would need 
to call for additional resources from Clearing Members in times of 
market stress. The Commission believes, therefore, that the proposed 
changes would be consistent with the reduction of systemic risk and 
supporting the stability of the broader financial system.
    Accordingly, and for the reasons stated above, the Commission 
believes the changes proposed in the Advance Notice are consistent with 
Section 805(b) of the Clearing Supervision Act.\30\
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    \30\ 12 U.S.C. 5464(b).
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B. Consistency With Rule 17Ad-22(e)(4) Under the Exchange Act

    Rule 17Ad-22(e)(4) under the Exchange Act requires, in part, that a 
covered clearing agency establish, implement, maintain, and enforce 
written policies and procedures reasonably designed to effectively 
identify, measure, monitor, and manage its credit exposures to 
participants and those arising from its payment, clearing, and 
settlement processes.\31\
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    \31\ 17 CFR 240.17Ad-22(e)(4).
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    As described above, OCC proposes to prohibit each Clearing Member 
submitting for clearing any stock loan activity involving the lending 
of equity securities or ETNs issued by such a Clearing Member or its 
affiliates going forward. Under the proposal, OCC would identify those 
stock loan transactions presenting SWWR and avoid any potential 
exposures arising out of such transactions through the proposed 
prohibition. Further, for those transactions that would not be affected 
by the prohibition (i.e., existing transactions), OCC proposes to 
measure, monitor, and manage its exposures through the use of the SWWR 
Add-on described above and discussed below. Accordingly, the Commission 
believes that OCC's proposal in the Advance Notice to prohibit certain 
stock loan transactions is consistent with Rule 17Ad-22(e)(4) under the 
Exchange Act.\32\
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    \32\ 17 CFR 240.17Ad-22(e)(4).
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    Rules 17Ad-22(e)(4)(i) and (iii) under the Exchange Act require 
that a covered clearing agency's policies and procedures meet the 
requirements of Rule 17Ad-22(e)(4) by maintaining financial resources 
at the minimum to enable OCC to cover a wide range of foreseeable 
stress scenarios that include, but are not limited to, the default of 
the participant family that would potentially cause the largest 
aggregate credit exposure for OCC in extreme but plausible market 
conditions.\33\ Further, Rule 17Ad-22(e)(4)(vi) under the Exchange Act 
requires that a covered clearing agency's policies and procedures meet 
the requirements of Rule 17Ad-22(e)(4) by testing the sufficiency of a 
covered clearing agency's total financial resources available to meet 
the minimum financial resource requirements under Rules 17Ad-
22(e)(4)(i) through (iii).\34\
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    \33\ 17 CFR 240.17Ad-22(e)(4)(i) and 17 CFR 240.17Ad-
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    \34\ 17 CFR 240.17Ad-22(e)(4)(vi).
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    As described above and discussed below, the proposed SWWR Add-on is 
designed to measure and manage OCC's credit exposures to Clearing 
Members to the extent those exposures arise out of SWWR related to 
cleared positions. One component of the SWWR Add-on--the SWWR ETN 
Charge--would not, however, fully cover OCC's potential exposure 
through margin because it would not assume a complete loss of value for 
ETNs issued by the Clearing Member or its affiliates. To address the 
potential credit exposure represented by the value of ETNs issued by 
the Clearing Member or its affiliates going to zero, OCC proposes to 
introduce the new SWWR Sufficiency Scenarios described above. OCC would 
use the SWWR Sufficiency Scenarios to test its total financial 
resources and to call for additional resources as necessary to ensure 
the resources it holds would be sufficient to enable OCC to cover 
exposures arising under the relevant stress scenarios. Accordingly, and 
for the reasons stated above, the Commission believes the changes 
proposed in the Advance Notice are consistent with Rule 17Ad-
22(e)(4)(i), (iii), and (vi) under the Exchange Act.\35\
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    \35\ 17 CFR 240.17Ad-22(e)(4)(i); 17 CFR 240.17Ad-22(e)(4)(iii); 
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C. Consistency With Rule 17Ad-22(e)(6) Under the Exchange Act

    Rule 17Ad-22(e)(6)(i) under the Exchange Act requires that a 
covered clearing agency establish, implement, maintain, and enforce 
written policies and procedures reasonably designed to cover, if the 
covered clearing agency provides central counterparty services, its 
credit exposure to participants by establishing a risk-based margin 
system that, at a minimum, considers, and produces margin levels 
commensurate with, the risks and particular attributes of each relevant 
product, portfolio, and market.\36\
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    \36\ 17 CFR 240.17Ad-22(e)(6)(i).
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    As noted above, OCC faces SWWR to the extent that the value of a 
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correlated with the creditworthiness of the Clearing Member. OCC 
proposes to cover its exposure to such SWWR posted by its Clearing 
Members through the introduction of the SWWR Add-on. The SWWR Add-on 
consists of three components. Two of those components--the SWWR Equity 
Charge and SWWR ETN Charge--are designed to produce margin levels 
commensurate with the particular attributes of certain products that 
OCC clears in terms of the likely recovery available in the event of a 
default by the issuing Clearing Member. Further, the SWWR Residual 
would ensure that the introduction of the SWWR Add-on could not 
inadvertently weaken OCC's current margin methodology due to the 
potential existence of ``right-way risk'' in a Clearing Member's 
accounts.\37\ Accordingly, and for the reasons stated above, the 
Commission believes the adoption of a margin add-on charge designed to 
cover exposures arising out of SWWR is consistent with Rule 17Ad-
22(e)(6)(i) under the Exchange Act.\38\
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    \37\ See infra at note 14.
    \38\ 17 CFR 240.17Ad-22(e)(6)(i).
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IV. Conclusion

    It is therefore noticed, pursuant to Section 806(e)(1)(I) of the 
Clearing Supervision Act, that the Commission does not object to 
Advance Notice (SR-OCC-2019-807) and that OCC is authorized to 
implement the proposed change as of the date of this notice or the date 
of an order by the Commission approving proposed rule change SR-OCC-
2019-010 whichever is later.

    By the Commission.
Jill M. Peterson,
Assistant Secretary.
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