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When variation margin attacks
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When variation margin attacks

Blackadder, Archegos, well-meant regulatory snafus and financial Armageddon. Why system thinking is critical in, well, a system.
Regulatory margin attacking, yesterday

Any of the standard reference works will tell you that variation margin is a good thing, apt for ridding the world of the kinds of systemic risk that have the habit of building up in the financial system. Since, like Captain Redbeard Rum, your correspondent is going to run against the conventional wisdom, let us set…

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