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Recital 58

Recital 58

(58)The financial crisis highlighted the fact that financial institutions greatly underestimated the level of counterparty credit risk associated with over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives. This prompted the G20, in September 2009, to call for more OTC derivatives to be cleared through a central counterparty. Furthermore, they asked to subject those OTC derivatives that could not be cleared centrally to higher capital requirements in order to reflect properly the higher risks associated with them.

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