The US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) proposal to mandate clearing for US Treasuries (UST) and UST repo comes with a section on Rule 15c3-3, often called the broker-dealer customer protection rule and also well-known as the margin or collateral rule. The impact of this change alone could be enough to encourage market adoption of UST and UST repo clearing even without a mandate.
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