Securities Central Counterparties Regulations

KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA
Capital Market Authority
SECURITIES CENTRAL COUNTERPARTIES REGULATIONS English Translation of the Official Arabic Text Issued by the Board of the Capital Market Authority Pursuant to its Resolution Number 3-127-2019 Dated 21/3/1441H Corresponding to 18/11/2019G Based on the Capital Market Law issued by Royal Decree No. M/30 dated 2/6/1424H Arabic is the official language of the Capital Market Authority Important Notice: The current version of these Regulations, as may be amended, can be found at the CMA website: www.cma.org.sa

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part 1: General Provisions
Article 1 – Preliminary
Article 2 – Definitions
Article 3 – Compliance with the Regulations and Rules
Article 4 – Compliance with the Principles for Financial Market Infrastructures
Article 5 – Waivers
Part 2: Authorisation
Article 6 – General Provisions
Article 7 – Requirements for Authorisation of a CCP Established in the Kingdom
Article 8 – Ownership Structure of a CCP Established in the Kingdom
Article 9 – Procedure and Powers of the Authority in relation to an Application for
Authorisation of a CCP Established in the Kingdom
Article 10: Requirements for Authorisation of a CCP Established out of the Kingdom
Article 11: Maintenance of Authorisation
Article 12 – Variation or Amendment to Authorisation
Article 13 – Right of Appeal
Article 14 – Fees
Article 15 – Governance
Article 16 – Withdrawal of Clearing Services or Cancellation of Authorisation
Part 3: Clearing
Article 17 – Effecting Clearing
Article 18 – Designated Securities
Part 4: Capital Base
Article 19 – General Business Risk Management
Article 20 – Capital Base
Part 5: Clearing Members
Article 21 – Categories of Clearing Members
Article 22 – Minimum Requirements

Article 23 – Clearing Membership
Article 24 – Monitoring the Compliance of Clearing Members
Article 25 – Exchange Members with no Clearing Memberships
Part 6: Collateral
Article 26 – Method of Delivering Collateral
Article 27 – Acceptable Collateral
Article 28 – Collateral Guaranteed by the Clearing Member or its Group
Article 29 – Haircuts and Valuation Practices
Article 30 – Avoiding Concentration of Collateral
Article 31 – Management of Collateral
Article 32 – Reuse of Collateral
Part 7: Custody and Investment Risks
Article 33 – Use of Custodians
Article 34 – Investment Policy
Part 8: Margin
Article 35 – Margin Requirement
Article 36 – Initial Margin Methodology
Article 37 – Variation Margin Methodology
Article 38 – Margin Calls
Article 39 – Testing Margin Coverage
Part 9: Credit Risk
Article 40 – Measuring, Monitoring and Mitigating Credit Risk
Article 41 – Default Fund
Article 42 – Dedicated own Resources Allocated from CCP’s own Capital
Article 43 – Testing the Sufficiency of the CCP’s Total Financial Resources
Part 10: Liquidity Risk
Article 44 – Measuring and Monitoring Liquidity Risk
Article 45 – Stress Testing Liquidity Needs and Resources

Part 11: Settlement Finality
Article 46 – Settlement Finality
Article 47 – Money Settlements
Article 48 – Physical Deliveries
Article 49 – Exchange-of-value Settlement System
Part 12: Segregation and Portability
Article 50 – Account Types
Article 51 – Framework for the Porting of Positions
Article 52 – Requirement to Disclose
Part 13: Clearing Member Default Management
Article 53 – Designation of Clearing Member as Defaulting
Article 54 – Default Rules and Procedures
Article 55 – Periodic Testing and Review of Default Procedures
Part 14: CCP Recovery
Article 56 – CCP Recovery Plan
Article 57 – Approving the CCP Recovery Plan
Part 15: Other CCP Obligations
Article 58 – Communication Procedures and Standards
Article 59 – Control Systems
Article 60 – Record Keeping
Article 61 – Disclosure of CCP Rules and Material Costs to Clearing Members
Part 16: Oprational Risk
Article 62 – Identifying Sources of Operational Risk
Article 63 – Operational Risk Management
Article 64 – Business Continuity Management
Part 17: Links between CCPs
Article 65 – Interoperability Arrangements
Article 66 – Risk Management of Interoperability Arrangements

Article 67 – Provision of Margin among CCPs
Part 18: Qualifying Central Counterparty
Article 68 – Recognition of Qualifying Central Counterparty Status
Part 19: Publication and Entry Into Force
Article 69 – Publication and Entry Into Force

PART 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 1 : Preliminary
a) The purpose of these Regulations is to regulate Securities Clearing activities in the Kingdom and specify the procedures and conditions for obtaining an authorisation to carry out such activities. b) The provisions of these Regulations shall apply to each CCP authorised in accordance with the Capital Market Law and these Regulations and to any applicant applying for authorisation in accordance with the provisions of these Regulations. c) The provisions of these Regulations shall not apply to the clearing services provided by SAMA to Local Banks. d) The memorandum of cooperation between the Authority and SAMA shall specify the cooperation mechanism in the implementation of regulatory powers over the CCPs and Clearing Members that are Local Banks subject to SAMA oversight and supervision
Article 2 : Definitions
a) Any reference to the “Capital Market Law” in these Regulations shall mean the Capital Market Law issued by the Royal Decree No. M/30 dated 2/6/1424H. b) Subject to paragraph (c) of this Article, expressions and terms in these Regulations have the meaning which they bear in the Capital Market Law and the Glossary of Defined Terms Used in the Regulations and Rules of the Capital Market Authority, unless the context indicates otherwise. c) For the purpose of implementing these Regulations, the following expressions and terms shall have the meaning they bear as follows, unless the context indicates otherwise:
Novation: a process whereby the original contract between one party and another party is discharged and replaced with two new contracts, one between the CCP and the first party and the other between the CCP and the second party. Designated Securities: Securities in respect of which the CCP has issued a notice designating such Securities as not benefitting from the Clearing service.

Backtesting: an ex-post comparison of observed outcomes with expected outcomes derived from the use of margin models. Interoperability Arrangement: an arrangement between two or more CCPs that involves a cross system execution of transactions. Procyclical: the changes in risk-management requirements or practices that are positively correlated with business or credit cycle fluctuations and that may cause or exacerbate financial instability. Pass Through Service: a service offered by the CCP in respect of Designated Securities to facilitate their settlement without providing Clearing services. Liquid Net Assets: assets funded by equity (common stock, disclosed reserves or other retained earnings) which are not otherwise encumbered and freely available to cover General Business Risk. Open Offer: a process whereby the CCP extends an open offer to act as a counterparty to market participants and is immediately interposed as counterparty in a transaction where the two parties agree on the terms when the pre-agreed conditions of the CCP are satisfied. Independent Member: a non-executive member of the board who enjoys complete independence in his position and decisions, including having no business, family or other relationship that raises a conflict of interests regarding the CCP, its management or its Clearing Members, and who has had no such relationship during the five years preceding his membership of the board. Clearing Member: a Direct Clearing Member or a General Clearing Member. General Clearing Member: has the meaning specified in paragraph (a) of Article 21 of these Regulations. Direct Clearing Member: has the meaning specified in paragraph (a) of Article 21 of these Regulations. Convertible Currency: a currency that can be bought or sold without restrictions imposed by any governmental authority in the Kingdom or in the jurisdiction which has issued the currency. Client: a natural or legal person which:

is not a Clearing Member; and
has a contractual relationship with a Clearing Member which enables that
person to clear its transactions with the CCP.
Appropriate Close-out Period: the time period to close all open positions of the defaulting Clearing Member which starts from the last collateral provided by the defaulted clearing member until the closing of his positions. Principles for Financial Market Infrastructures: the international standards for financial market infrastructures issued by the Committee on Payment and Market Infrastructures (CPMI) and the Technical Committee of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO). General Business Risk: the risks and potential losses arising from the CCP’s operation as a business, but excluding risks and losses related to a Clearing Member default. General Business Risk includes any potential impairment of the CCP’s financial position as a consequence of a decline in its revenues or an increase in its expenses. Wrong-Way Risk: the risk arising from exposure to a counterparty when the collateral provided by that counterparty is highly correlated with the credit quality of that counterparty. Qualifying Central Counterparty: a CCP that has demonstrated that it is established and operating consistently with the Principles for Financial Market Infrastructures. Clearing: the process of establishing each party's rights and obligations arising from Securities trading, including the calculation of net obligations, and ensuring that financial instruments or cash are available to secure the exposures arising from such obligations. Margin: a Variation Margin or an Initial Margin. Variation Margin: margin that is collected to cover the current exposure resulting from actual changes in market prices which affects the value of the Clearing Member’s position. Initial Margin: margin that is collected to cover the potential future exposure resulting from potential changes in the value of the Clearing Member’s position over the appropriate close-out period in the event that Clearing Member defaults.

Article 3 : Compliance with the Regulations and Rules
a) The CCP must comply with the Capital Market Law, these Regulations and the other relevant regulations and rules. The CCP must provide to the Authority without delay any information, records or documents that the Authority may require for the purpose of implementing the Capital Market Law and its Implementing Regulations. b) The Governing Body and employees of the CCP must comply with any request issued by the Authority to appear to explain any matter or to assist in any enquiry relating to implementing the Capital Market Law and its Implementing Regulations.
Article 4 : Compliance with Principles for Financial Market Infrastructures
The CCP authorised in accordance with these Regulations shall be designated as a systematically important financial institution in the Kingdom. In this regard, the CCP is required to adhere to the Principles for Financial Market Infrastructures on an ongoing basis, including any related supplemental guidance issued from time to time by the Committee on Payment and Market Infrastructures and the International Organization of Securities Commissions.
Article 5 : Waivers
a) The Authority may waive a provision of these Regulations in whole or in part as it applies to an applicant or a CCP either on an application from the applicant or the CCP or on its own initiative. b) The Authority will make an announcement of the waiver of any provisions where it believes that:

the waiver of the provision may be of application to more than one CCP; and
the publication of the waiver will not materially prejudice the CCPs.

PART 2: AUTHORISATION
Article 6 : General Provisions
a) The CCP must have rules, procedures and contracts that are clear, understandable and consistent with the provisions of the Capital Market Law and these Regulations. b) The CCP, upon obtaining an authorisation from the Authority in accordance with the Capital Market Law and these Regulations, shall be considered an exempt person in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Business Regulations. c) The CCP shall submit an annual report to the Authority to ensure its compliance with all provisions of these Regulations.
Article 7 : Requirements for Authorisation of a CCP Established in the Kingdom
a) For the purposes of this Article, an applicant for authorisation means the person that is applying for authorisation to provide Securities Clearing services in the Kingdom. An applicant for authorisation becomes subject to these Regulations from the date of submission of its application. b) An applicant for authorisation as a CCP Established in the Kingdom must demonstrate to the Authority that:

it has Liquid Net Assets greater than the higher of:
a. SAR 100,000,000; b. six months anticipated operating expenses, excluding depreciation and amortization expenses; or
c. such other amount as determined by the Authority in its absolute discretion;
it is fit and proper and has adequate expertise and resources to carry out Securities
Clearing services in the Kingdom;
it has managerial expertise, financial systems, risk management policies and
systems, technological resources, policies, procedures, and operational systems that are sufficient to fulfil its business and regulatory obligations;
its Governing Body and employees who will be involved in its Clearing services
have the necessary qualifications, skills, experience and integrity;
the identities of the shareholders that have direct or indirect holdings of 5% or more
of the capital and the amounts of those holdings, whether they are natural or legal persons;
it will, upon authorisation, be in compliance with the Principles for Financial
Market Infrastructures including, without limitation, the disclosure framework and assessment methodology;
the time span for the CCP recovery in accordance with the provisions of Article 20
of these Regulations; and
it will be in compliance with such requirements as may be determined by the
Authority, in its discretion, from time to time. c) In addition to the authorisation requirements set out above, the Authority may stipulate additional authorisation requirements to be met by, or specific conditions or limitations to be applied to either all applicants for authorisation, or particular applicants or categories of applicants, as it considers appropriate. d) An application for authorisation may be submitted by the founders or controlling shareholders of an applicant if the applicant is not yet established. The founders or controlling shareholders become subject to the provisions that apply to an applicant from the date of submission of the application. e) The form and contents of the application and all information and documents filed with it must be as prescribed by the Authority. f) An applicant for authorisation must notify the Authority immediately of any material changes to the information provided to the Authority for the purposes of application for authorisation. g) As a condition for authorisation as a CCP Established in the Kingdom, the applicant must be a joint stock company established in the Kingdom. h) If the applicant has close links with another natural or legal person, the Authority must be satisfied with the integrity, regulatory status, business record and financial soundness of any such natural or legal person, and that such close links will not impair the effective supervision of the applicant, or its operations and compliance with these Regulations.

Article 8 : Ownership Structure of a CCP Established in the Kingdom
a) The Authority may refuse an application where it is not satisfied as to the suitability of the substantial shareholders of the applicant. b) The CCP established in the Kingdom shall be required to obtain prior approval from the Authority for any change that exceeds 5% in its ownership structure. c) The CCP established in the Kingdom must notify the Authority, in such form as the Authority may prescribe, that a person is intending to establish close links with the CCP at least 30 days in advance of the proposed effective date, or if such advance notice is not possible, immediately on the CCP becoming aware of any change in close links. The notice must include such information as the Authority requires to satisfy itself of the identity of the person with whom the CCP proposes to establish close links, its integrity, regulatory status, business record and financial soundness. d) The CCP established in the Kingdom must not establish close links with another person unless the Authority has approved the close links in writing. e) Before approving any close links, the Authority must be satisfied that such links will not impair the effective supervision of the CCP established in the Kingdom or its operations and compliance with the Capital Market Law and its Implementing Regulations. f) Clearing Members, and Clients of Clearing Members, shall have no recourse to the equity of the CCP established in the Kingdom, save as provided in these Regulations and in the relevant CCP Rules. The liability of such CCP to its Clearing Members and their Clients is limited as set out in these Regulations and in the relevant CCP Rules.
Article 9 : Procedure and Powers of the Authority in relation to an Application for
Authorisation of a CCP Established in the Kingdom a) In considering an application, the Authority may:

carry out any enquiries that it considers appropriate;
require the applicant, or its representative, to attend before the Authority to answer
questions and explain any matter the Authority considers relevant to the application;
require the applicant to provide such additional information as the Authority
considers appropriate within 30 days of the request; and
verify any information furnished by the applicant.
b) The Authority may refuse to consider an application for authorisation where an applicant has failed to provide information requested from it, or has failed to provide information requested from it within the time requested. c) The Authority shall, upon receipt of all information and documents required, notify the applicant in writing of the same, and shall take any of the following decisions within a maximum period of 30 days from the date of the notice:
approve the application in whole or in part; or
approve the application subject to such conditions and limitations as it considers
appropriate; or
refuse the application, giving reasons.
d) The Authority may extend the period for assessment of an application for authorisation referred to in paragraph (c) of this Article if the applicant for authorisation intends to outsource any of its functions in accordance with paragraph (j) of Article 15 of these Regulations. e) If the Authority resolves to authorise the applicant, it will inform the applicant of this in writing and of any conditions and limitations that the Authority may consider appropriate. f) If the Authority resolves to refuse the application, it will notify the applicant in writing. g) An applicant must not provide, or hold itself out as providing, Securities Clearing services in the Kingdom prior to receiving the Authority's decision referred to in paragraph (e) of this Article.
Article 10 : Requirements for Authorisation of a CCP Established out of the Kingdom
a) For the purposes of this Article, an applicant for authorisation means a legal person incorporated as a joint stock company out of the Kingdom that is applying for authorisation to provide Securities Clearing services in the Kingdom. An applicant for

authorisation becomes subject to these Regulations from the date of submission of its application. b) An applicant for authorisation as a CCP established out of the Kingdom must demonstrate to the Authority that:

it is authorised or otherwise subject to regulatory oversight by a regulatory
authority and incorporated in a jurisdiction that applies regulatory and monitoring standards equivalent to those of the Authority or acceptable to it. For the purpose of this paragraph, the Authority may, at its absolute discretion, determine whether the regulatory and monitoring standards are equivalent to those of the Authority or acceptable to it;
it has given notice to its foreign regulator of its intention to provide Clearing
services in the Kingdom;
by providing Clearing services in the Kingdom it will not violate any laws or
regulations to which it is subject or any relevant requirements imposed by its foreign regulator;
its foreign regulator is either willing, or has already, put in place cooperation
arrangements which provide for the exchange of information between the foreign regulator and the Authority regarding the applicant; and
it complies with all relevant requirements set out in the Principles for Financial
Market Infrastructures. c) Based on the application submitted in accordance with paragraph (b) of this Article and any additional documents requested by the Authority, the Authority shall have the discretion to determine whether to approve the application. The Authority may stipulate additional authorisation requirements to be met by, or specific conditions or limitations to be applied to either all applicants for authorisation as a CCP established out of the Kingdom, or particular applicants or categories of applicants, as it considers appropriate.
Article 11 : Maintenance of Authorisation
a) As a condition for the maintenance of authorisation, the CCP must continue to be fit and proper to carry out Securities Clearing services in the Kingdom.

b) The skills, experience, competence and integrity of a CCP’s or applicant’s employees and officers is an important factor in assessing whether it is fit and proper. The skills, experience, competence and integrity of the employees and officers will be assessed against the following criteria:

they must possess adequate qualifications and professional experience to carry out
their responsibilities, including appropriate technical knowledge and skills;
they must have probity and soundness of judgement commensurate with their
positions;
they must fulfil their responsibilities with diligence and to protect the interests of
Clearing Members and Clients in accordance with these Regulations and the Implementing Regulations;
they must not have committed an offence involving fraud or dishonesty; and
they have not been insolvent.
c) Each CCP shall develop a code of conduct which will define acceptable and unacceptable behaviours and, at a minimum, should:
make clear that employees are expected to conduct themselves ethically and
perform their job with skill, due care and diligence in addition to complying with all the relevant laws, regulations and policies;
require the CCP Board to oversee the investigation in suspicion of violation of the
code of conduct, and approve by whom it shall be investigated and how it will be addressed. d) The Authority may require, as it considers appropriate, the CCP to maintain a minimum rating from an internationally recognised rating agency as a condition to maintaining authorisation.
Article 12 : Variation or Amendment to Authorisation
a) The CCP must apply to the Authority for approval of any proposed variation or amendment to its authorisation.

b) The Authority has all the powers set out in this Part to consider a proposed variation or amendment, and may also require some or all of the information or documents referred in this Part to be updated. c) The Authority will aim to process an application to vary or amend an authorisation within 30 days from receiving all information that it considers necessary. d) After considering an application to vary or amend an authorisation, the Authority may:

approve the application for variation or amendment in whole or in part;
approve the application subject to such conditions and limitations as it considers
appropriate;
defer making a decision for such period as it may consider necessary to carry out
further study or examination or to allow for the provision of additional information; or
refuse the application, giving reasons.
e) If the Authority resolves to approve an application for an amendment in authorisation, it will inform the CCP of this in writing and provide it with the new authorisation, including any conditions and limitations that the Authority may consider appropriate. f) The CCP must not provide (or hold itself out as providing) the amended Clearing services before receiving the Authority’s notification under paragraph (e) of this
Article.
g) If the Authority resolves to refuse the application for variation or amendment, it will notify the CCP in writing.
Article 13 : Right of Appeal
An applicant for authorisation or the CCP may appeal to the Committee in respect of any decision or action that the Authority takes under these Regulations.
Article 14 : Fees
a) The applicant for authorisation must pay such fees as may be prescribed by the Authority.

b) The CCP must pay all such fees as the Authority may prescribe for the maintenance of the CCP’s authorisation. c) The CCP must obtain prior approval from the Authority for all fees for Clearing services provided by the CCP.
Article 15 : Governance
a) The CCP shall have documented governance arrangements which clearly and directly define the structure of the CCP Board, how management operates, division of responsibilities and reporting lines. The Authority will consider the CCP’s governance arrangements as part of the authorisation process. In addition, the CCP shall disclose such arrangements to Clearing Members and the public. b) As a minimum, the CCP’s written governance arrangements shall include:

the composition of the CCP Board and its committees and their responsibilities;
the Senior Executives structure;
reporting lines between Senior Executives and the CCP Board;
the ownership structure;
internal governance policy;
the policies and systems of risk management and internal controls;
procedures for the appointment of board members and Senior Executives; and
procedures for ensuring performance accountability.
c) Governance arrangements should ensure sufficient independence for key functions such as risk management and internal audit. d) The number of Independent Members in the CCP Board shall not be less than two members or one-third of the CCP Board members, whichever is greater. The CCP Board members should have a clear understanding of their roles in corporate governance, be able to devote sufficient time to their roles, ensure to continuously develop their skills, and have appropriate incentives to fulfil their roles.

e) The CCP shall establish an audit committee in accordance with the Capital Market Law and the Companies Law and their Implementing Regulations. In addition, the CCP Board shall establish the committees referred to in paragraph (f) of this Article at a minimum, which shall be composed of suitable members that have the appropriate skills, experience, and knowledge of the CCP activities. Such committees may include the CCP Board members where needed. f) The CCP Board shall establish, as a minimum, the following committees:

an information technology technical committee;
a nomination and remuneration committee;
a regulatory compliance committee; and
a risk committee.
All such committees, and any other committees the CCP Board considers appropriate, shall have clearly assigned responsibilities and procedures and shall document all decisions reached and any supporting rationale for such decisions. g) The CCP Board policies and procedures shall include procedures to identify, address, and manage potential conflicts of interest of the CCP Board members. h) The CCP Board shall establish a clear, documented risk-management framework that includes the CCP’s risk-tolerance policy, assigns responsibilities and accountability for risk related decisions, and addresses decision making in crises and emergencies. The CCP Board shall regularly monitor the CCP’s risk profile to ensure that it is consistent with the CCP’s business strategy and risk-tolerance policy. i) The CCP Board shall ensure that there is adequate governance surrounding the adoption and use of technical models, such as for the models of the credit, collateral, margining, and liquidity risk-management systems. The CCP shall validate, on an ongoing basis, the technical models and their methodologies used to quantify, aggregate, and manage its risks. The validation process should be independent of the development, implementation, and operation of the technical models and their methodologies, and the validation process should be subjected to an independent review of its adequacy and effectiveness. j) The CCP may outsource specific functions to an external party provided that:
the appropriate safeguards are in place, which shall include a requirement that the
external party implements equivalent business continuity requirements as are imposed on the CCP and undertakes to cooperate with the Authority in connection with the outsourced function;
the Authority approval is obtained prior to the outsourcing of any material CCP
functions, and
none of its risk management functions are outsourced to an external party.
The CCP Board should ensure that outsourced functions meet the same requirements they would need to meet if they were provided internally by the CCP. The CCP shall have robust arrangements for the selection, close monitoring of the performance and substitution of such external parties and shall provide all information necessary to enable the Authority to assess the compliance of the performance of any outsourced functions with these Regulations. k) The outsourcing of any function by the CCP will not derogate from the CCP’s regulatory obligations. l) The CCP Board shall take into consideration the interests of all relevant stakeholders, including those of Clearing Members and the Clients of Clearing Members, in making major decisions, including those relating to the CCP’s design, rules, and overall business strategy.
Article 16 : Withdrawal of Clearing Services and Cancellation of Authorisation
a) The CCP that proposes to cease providing Securities Clearing services in the Kingdom must notify the Authority in writing of the date on which it intends to cease providing such Clearing services and the reasons for the decision:
at least 45 days in advance of that date; or
immediately on making such decision if such advance notice is not possible
because cessation is caused by an external event of which the CCP was not aware. b) Where the CCP decides to cease providing certain Clearing services, it must ensure that any such Clearing business that is outstanding is properly completed or, after obtaining the Authority prior approval, is transferred to an appropriate service provider. The CCP

shall provide reasonable notice to its Clearing Members of the cessation of Clearing services. c) The CCP may request the cancellation of its authorisation, and must in this case submit a written request to the Authority not less than three months prior to the proposed date of the cancellation. d) A request to cancel an authorisation must include sufficient information concerning the circumstances of the cancellation to enable the Authority to determine whether to accept the cancellation, to postpone the date of the cancellation, or to require other measures that it considers necessary for the protection of Clearing Members of the CCP. e) The Authority may refuse a request to cancel an authorisation if it considers that the maintenance of the authorisation is necessary to investigate any matter affecting the CCP, to protect the interests of a CCP’s Clearing Members, or to impose a prohibition or requirements on such CCP under the Capital Market Law or its Implementing Regulations. f) The Authority may suspend the CCP’s authorisation on its own initiative if the CCP does not offer Securities Clearing services in the Kingdom for a period of 12 months, or 6 months following the date on which the CCP has ceased to offer any such Securities Clearing services after notification to the Authority in accordance with paragraph (a) of this Article. g) The CCP continues to be subject to the jurisdiction of the Authority in respect of any act or omission that occurred before the cancellation of its authorisation and for two years thereafter. If at any time during this period the Authority commences any enforcement investigation or proceedings, the CCP shall continue to be subject to the jurisdiction of the Authority until the end of the enforcement investigation or proceedings.

PART 3: CLEARING
Article 17 : Effecting Clearing
a) The CCP shall provide the services required to clear Securities transactions entered into on an Exchange or over-the-counter basis in accordance with the provisions of these Regulations. The CCP, after obtaining the Authority’s approval, may provide any other services to Clearing Members. b) The CCP shall prescribe the process through which it effects Clearing. Such processes may include:

Open Offer; or
Novation.
c) The CCP may employ in its CCP Rules different processes to effect Clearing depending on the type of Securities or type of transactions it is Clearing.
Article 18 : Designated Securities
a) The CCP may determine that certain Securities are not appropriate to clear, including where Securities are unlisted or illiquid. Where the CCP makes such a determination, it must notify the Authority of its intention not to clear such Securities, and it shall issue a notice on its website specifying such Securities as Designated Securities which shall not benefit from its Clearing service but shall be capable of benefiting from a Pass Through Service. b) The CCP shall not be permitted to become a counterparty to trades referencing Designated Securities, whether by way of Open Offer, Novation or otherwise. The CCP shall ensure Designated Securities will be excluded from the determination of a Clearing Member’s default fund contribution. c) The CCP may determine the appropriate margin requirements for Designated Securities that benefit from the Pass Through Service, with any Pass Through Service being outside of the remit of the margining provisions set out in Part 8 of these Regulations.

PART 4: CAPITAL BASE
Article 19 : General Business Risk Management
a) The CCP shall have robust management and control systems to identify, monitor and manage General Business Risk. Such management and control systems shall include the following:

identifying the sources of General Business Risk and their potential impact on the
CCP’s operations and services, taking into account past loss events and financial projections where possible; and
considering a combination of tools, such as risk management and internal control
assessments, scenario analysis and sensitivity analysis to manage General Business Risk. b) The CCP shall notify the Authority immediately of any material changes to its General Business Risk management policy.
Article 20 : Capital Base
a) As part of its management of General Business Risks, the CCP shall hold Liquid Net Assets so that enable it to continue operations as a going concern if it incurs general business losses. b) When determining the amount of Liquid Net Assets to be held by the CCP, the CCP must take into consideration the time span required to achieve a recovery of the CCP’s critical operations and services. c) In order to determine the time span referred to in paragraph (b) o this Article, the CCP shall submit to the Authority its estimate of the appropriate time span for recovering its activities as a condition of its authorisation. The estimated time span shall be sufficient to ensure restructuring of its activities or reorganising its operations. The CCP shall update its estimate of the appropriate time span for recovery whenever there is a material change in the assumptions underlying the estimation and submit this updated estimate to the Authority for approval. d) In order to estimate the amount of Liquid Net Assets required, the CCP shall regularly analyse and understand how its revenue and operating expenses may change under a

variety of adverse business scenarios as well as how it might be affected by extraordinary losses. e) At a minimum, the CCP must hold Liquid Net Assets greater than the higher of:

SAR 100,000,000;
expected operating expenses of the time span required to achieve a recovery of the
CCP’s critical operations and services for, at a minimum, six months, excluding depreciation and amortization expenses; or
such other amount as required by the Authority in its absolute discretion.
f) If at any time the amount of Liquid Net Assets held by the CCP is lower than the amount required pursuant to paragraph (e) of this Article, the CCP shall immediately notify the Authority and provide a periodic update at least weekly or as the Authority may otherwise specify, until the amount of Liquid Net Assets held by such CCP returns above the approved amount. g) Assets held by the CCP to cover General Business Risk should be of high quality and sufficiently liquid and include cash denominated in SAR, Convertible Currencies and liquid securities. When calculating Liquid Net Assets available to cover General Business Risk, the CCP shall not include any assets held to cover risks or losses relating to:
the default of a Clearing Member; or
the default of a third party, such as a settlement bank, payment system or other
intermediary entity.

PART 5: CLEARING MEMBERS
Article 21 : Categories of Clearing Members
a) The CCP shall establish, at a minimum, two categories of Clearing Members consisting of:

Direct Clearing Member: a Clearing Member who is authorised to clear Securities
which it has traded in its capacity as a member of an Exchange, including Securities it has traded on its own account or on behalf of its Client(s). A Direct Clearing Member shall not be permitted to clear for Exchange members with no clearing memberships; and
General Clearing Member: a Clearing Member who is authorised to clear Securities
on behalf of its Client(s), including Exchange members with no clearing memberships. A General Clearing Member, to the extent that it is a member of an Exchange, shall be permitted to clear Securities which it has traded in its capacity as a member of an Exchange, including Securities it has traded on its own account or on behalf of its Client(s). b) The CCP Rules may introduce classes of Direct Clearing Members and General Clearing Members per type of Securities or transactions cleared.
Article 22 : Minimum Requirements
a) The CCP Rules shall establish requirements applicable to Direct Clearing Members and General Clearing Members, which at a minimum must satisfy the following requirements:
a Direct Clearing Member must be, at all times, a member of the Exchange in
respect of which it clear Securities;
a General Clearing Member shall have the necessary additional financial resources
and operational capacity to perform the activity of Clearing Securities on behalf of Exchange members with no clearing memberships (in addition to Clearing Securities it has traded on its own account); and
Requiring for the Clearing Member to enter into a contract with the CCP
summarising the key terms of their relationship, and to agree to be bound by such CCP Rules as such may be amended from time to time.

b) In establishing the minimum requirements set out in paragraph (a) of this Article, the CCP shall consider risk-related considerations to ensure the relevant Clearing Member meets appropriate legal, operational and functional requirements to allow it to fulfil its obligations to such CCP on a timely basis and so as to ensure fair and open access to services of the CCP. c) The CCP Rules may impose specific additional obligations on Clearing Members, such as the requirement to participate in auctions of a defaulting Clearing Member’s position. Such additional obligations shall be proportional to the risk brought by the relevant Clearing Member and shall not restrict participation to certain categories of Clearing Members.
Article 23 : Clearing Membership
In addition to the requirements set out in Article 22 of these Regulations, Direct Clearing Members and General Clearing Members must satisfy one of the following requirements:

be an Authorised Person authorised by the Authority to carry on dealing activity;
be an exempt person in accordance with the Securities Business Regulations; or
be a Local Bank which has received non-objection letters from both the Authority
and SAMA to act as a Clearing Member. Upon becoming a Clearing Member, such Local Bank will be exempted from the authorisation requirement to carry on securities business in relation to its Securities clearing activities.
Article 24 : Monitoring the Compliance of Clearing Members
a) The CCP shall ensure the application of the requirements referred to in Article 22 of these Regulations is satisfied on an on-going basis, and shall ensure its CCP Rules require delivery of timely and accurate information from Clearing Members. In addition, the CCP shall require the Clearing Members to deliver to the CCP information regarding the arrangements they adopt to allow their Clients access to services of the CCP, including in the case of General Clearing Members the arrangements they adopt to allow Exchange members with no clearing memberships access to services of the CCP. Responsibility for ensuring that Clients comply with their obligations shall remain with the relevant Clearing Member. b) The CCP shall conduct, at least once a year, a comprehensive review of compliance with the CCP Rules (including the requirements referred to in Article 22 of these

Regulations) by its Clearing Members. The CCP shall have objective and transparent procedures for the suspension and orderly exit of Clearing Members that no longer meet the requirements set out in their CCP Rules, in addition to the procedures implemented for the voluntary termination by a Clearing Member of its membership.
Article 25 : Exchange Members with no Clearing Memberships
a) The CCP shall not permit the Exchange member with no clearing membership to clear Securities it has traded in its capacity as a member of an Exchange except through a General Clearing Member. b) The CCP may require the Exchange member with no clearing membership to satisfy additional requirements, which may include without limitation:

entering into a direct contractual relationship with the CCP; and
providing additional information regarding its Clients on whose behalf it has traded
transactions. c) The CCP may permit the Exchange member with no clearing membership who has satisfied any additional requirement specified by such CCP in accordance with paragraph (b) of this Article to access certain services of the CCP including without limitation:
Opening, in its name, account(s) at the CCP detailing the positions of its Clients;
and
Obtaining reports relating to the positions of its Clients.
d) At all times the Exchange member with no clearing membership shall be required to have a contractual relationship with a General Clearing Member, and such General Clearing Member shall remain liable to the CCP for all contracts cleared and attributable to such Exchange member. In this regard, such Exchange member shall not be required to:
contribute to the default fund in accordance with Article 41 of these Regulations;
and
provide the CCP with margin in accordance with Part 8 of these Regulations,

which shall each remain obligations of the such Exchange Member’s General Clearing Member.

PART 6: COLLATERAL
Article 26 : Method of Delivering Collateral
The CCP shall require each Clearing Member to deliver collateral. Any method permitted for the delivery of collateral by a Clearing Member to the CCP as specified in the CCP Rules must ensure that:

any collateral delivered to the CCP shall be in accordance with these Regulations;
and
the CCP’s ability to liquidate collateral to cover the positions of a Clearing Member
to which such collateral relates is not restricted.
Article 27 : Acceptable Collateral
a) The CCP shall limit the assets it accepts as collateral to those with low market, liquidity and credit risks. It shall apply appropriate haircuts to such assets to reflect the risk that the collateral value may decline in the event of liquidation, particularly in stressed market conditions where the time taken to liquidate collateral may increase. The CCP shall take into consideration concentration risks when determining acceptable collateral and the haircuts to be applied to such collateral. b) The CCP may accept the following assets as a collateral:
cash denominated in SAR, EUR and USD;
cash denominated in currencies other than those specified in paragraph (1) above,
provided that it is a Convertible Currency and the CCP publishes procedures specifying how such currencies is accepted as collateral;
financial instruments issued or explicitly guaranteed by the government of the
Kingdom;
financial instruments issued or explicitly guaranteed by a government or
supranational organization recognised by the Kingdom, provided that the CCP can demonstrate they have a low market and credit risk based upon an internal assessment objectively carried out by the CCP and the CCP publishes procedures specifying such additional financial instruments as acceptable collateral; and
financial instruments other than those specified in paragraphs (3) and (4) above,
provided that the CCP can demonstrate they have low market and credit risk based upon an internal assessment objectively carried out by the CCP, such financial instruments are freely transferable without any regulatory or legal restrictions or third party claims that impair liquidation, such financial instruments have reliable price data published on a regular basis, and the CCP publishes procedures specifying such additional financial instruments as acceptable collateral.
Article 28 : Collateral Guaranteed by the Clearing Member or its Group
The CCP may not accept from a Clearing Member a collateral that is guaranteed by such Clearing Member or by the group to which the Clearing Member belongs.
Article 29 : Haircuts and Valuation Practices
a) The CCP shall establish and implement prudent valuation policies and procedures, and develop haircuts that take into account stressed market conditions. The CCP’s policies and procedures shall provide for marking the value of collateral to market at least on a daily basis. b) The CCP shall monitor on a regular basis, and at a minimum annually and each time a material change occurs that affects the CCP’s risk exposure, the adequacy of its valuation policies and procedures. Such monitoring should be carried out by persons independent to the persons who created and applied the valuation policies and procedures. c) Haircuts shall reflect the potential for asset values and liquidity to decline over the interval between their last revaluation and the time by which the CCP can reasonably assume that the assets can be liquidated. The CCP will establish stable and conservative haircuts that are calibrated to include periods of stressed market conditions in order to reduce the need for Procyclical adjustments. d) In determining the haircut to be applied to each collateral asset, the CCP shall produce a confidence level of at least 99% for cash and Securities traded in an Exchange and 99.5% for Securities traded over the counter, considering the following criteria:
the type of asset and level of credit risk associated with such asset based upon an
internal assessment objectively carried out by the CCP;
the maturity of the asset;
the historical and hypothetical future price volatility of the asset in stressed market
conditions. For this purpose, the CCP shall use 10 years of historical data if such data is available;
the liquidity of the underlying market. For this purpose, the CCP shall, at a
minimum, assume a holding period of at least 2 days;
the foreign exchange risk, if any; and
any potential wrong-way risk associated with the collateral.
Article 30 : Avoiding Concentration of Collateral
a) The CCP shall maintain policies and procedures regarding concentration limits to ensure collateral received remains sufficiently diversified to allow its liquidation quickly without significant market impacts. Such policies and procedures shall also detail the techniques to be employed by the CCP when concentration limits are breached. b) The CCP shall monitor on a regular basis the adequacy of its concentration limit policies and procedures. The CCP shall review its concentration limit policy and procedure at least annually and whenever a material change occurs that affects the CCP’s risk exposure. c) The concentration limits will consist of:
minimum limit to be applied on the amount of SAR denominated cash to be
provided as collateral; and
maximum limit to be applied on all other asset classes. With respect to financial
instruments, such maximum limits shall be developed by the CCP on the basis of:
a. individual issuer, taking into account the level of credit risk of the financial instrument issued by the issuer or the credit risk of the issuer itself, based upon an internal assessment objectively carried out by the CCP. In any event, no more than 10% of the total collateral received by the CCP may be guaranteed by a single issuer or by a legal person that is part of the same group as such issuer, save that such limitation shall not be applicable to financial instruments issued or guaranteed by the government of the Kingdom;

b. issuers of the same type in terms of economic sector, activity, geographic region;
c. the liquidity and the price volatility of the financial instruments;
d. each Clearing Member; and e. all Clearing Members. d) The CCP shall inform Clearing Members of the applicable concentration limits and of any amendment to these limits. If the CCP materially breaches a concentration limit set out in its policies and procedures, it shall rectify the breach as soon as possible.
Article 31 : Management of Collateral
a) The CCP shall establish and implement policies and procedures to continuously monitor the handling of collateral, including recording the reuse of collateral. Such policies and procedures will enhance the effectiveness, efficiency and flexibility of the systems operationally, which also allows to accommodate the timely deposit, withdrawal, substitution and liquidation of collateral. b) The CCP shall review its policies and procedures regarding the management of collateral at least annually and each time a material change occurs that affects the CCP’s risk exposure.
Article 32 : Reuse of Collateral
The CCP shall be permitted to use collateral provided to it by Clearing Members if:

the CCP Rules to which such Clearing Member is bound explicitly permit the use
of such collateral by the CCP;
the CCP has clear rules and procedures regarding the reuse of collateral, which
specify when such CCP may reuse collateral and the process of returning such collateral to Clearing Members; and
at all times the CCP is in adherence with its investment policy, in accordance with
Article 34 of these Regulations.

PART 7: CUSTODY AND INVESTMENT RISKS
Article 33 : Use of Custodians
a) The CCP shall establish rules and procedures to ensure that assets are held with authorised, supervised and regulated legal persons, and must undertake a risk assessment prior to holding assets with them, to ensure that the custodian has in place adequate arrangements to safeguard the assets, and is subject to appropriate standards of regulatory oversight. The CCP must conduct such assessment as frequently as necessary to ensure that the requirements stated in this paragraph are met on a continuing basis. b) The CCP shall ensure that assets are held in a manner that assures the CCP of prompt access to such assets. c) To mitigate the custody risk, the CCP must ensure that assets held in custody will be protected against claims of a custodian’s creditors, provide for the segregation of assets. d) Without prejudice to the requirements for custodians as set out in paragraph (a) of this
Article, the CCP may only hold assets with:

Depositories Centres for assets held in the Kingdom, and central securities
depositories and securities settlement systems for assets held out of the Kingdom that the CCP considers offer equivalent protections and safeguards as the Depositories Centres in the Kingdom;
banks or operators of payment systems where such assets are cash, either in the
Kingdom and falling within the remit of SAMA or out of the Kingdom and in respect of which the CCP considers equivalent protections and safeguards are maintained, without prejudice to SAMA’s authority in supervising and regulating payment systems in the Kingdom;
Authorised Persons authorised by the Authority to carry on custody business for
assets held in the Kingdom, and persons authorised out of the Kingdom for assets held out of the Kingdom that the CCP considers offer equivalent protections and safeguards as the Authorised Persons in the Kingdom. Where assets are held with custodians, the CCP shall ensure that assets belonging to Clearing Members are segregated from the assets belonging to the CCP by means of differently titled

accounts on the books of the custodian or any other equivalent measures that achieve the same level of protection; or
4) any other person approved by the Authority.
Article 34 : Investment Policy
a) The CCP shall maintain policies and procedures to ensure that the financial instruments in which its financial resources are invested are at all times consistent with its overall risk management strategy, and disclose them to the Clearing Members. b) The CCP shall invest its financial resources only in cash or in highly liquid financial instruments with minimal market and credit risk. The CCP’s investments shall be capable of being liquidated rapidly with minimal adverse price effect. c) The CCP shall determine concentration limits and monitor the concentration of its financial resources as they apply to investments at the level of:

individual financial instruments, taking into account the liquidity and the price
volatility of such financial instruments;
individual issuer, taking into account the level of credit risk being taken on the
issuer and the group to which such issuer belongs based upon an internal assessment objectively carried out by the CCP; and
issuers of the same type in terms of economic sector, activity and geographic
region. d) The CCP shall monitor on a regular basis the adequacy of its concentration limit policies and procedures as they apply to investments. The CCP shall review its concentration limit policy and procedure at least annually and whenever a material change occurs that affects its risk exposure. e) The CCP shall inform Clearing Members of the applicable concentration limits and of any amendment to these limits. If the CCP materially breaches a concentration limit set out in its policies and procedures, it shall rectify the breach as soon as possible.

PART 8: MARGIN
Article 35 : Margin Requirement
a) The CCP Rules shall specify margin requirements with clear models and parameters, and the CCP shall impose, call and collect margin to limit its credit exposure to its Clearing Members. The CCP’s margin requirements shall establish margin levels commensurate with the risks and particular attributes of each product and market it serves and must reflect the availability of timely, high-quality pricing data. b) The models and parameters adopted by the CCP must provide for Initial Margin and, where appropriate, Variation Margin and the CCP shall regularly monitor and, if necessary, revise its models and parameters to reflect current market conditions. Any such revisions shall take into account any potentially Procyclical effects. In addition, the CCP may provide, where a Clearing Member has breached limits set by the CCP, for the provision of additional margin as set out in the CCP Rules. c) In calculating margin requirements, the CCP may allow offsets or reductions in required margin amounts between financial instruments that it clears if the risk of one product is significantly and reliably correlated with the risk of another product. The CCP shall base such offsets on a methodology that reflects the degree of price dependence between the products. Such methodology shall be documented and shall at least provide that the correlation, or an equivalent statistical parameter of dependence, between two or more products cleared is shown to be reliable over any specified lookback periods. Notwithstanding the foregoing, offsets or reductions in required margin amounts between financial instruments shall only be permitted to the extent such financial instruments are covered by the same default fund.
Article 36 : Initial Margin Methodology
a) The CCP shall adopt a risk-based Initial Margin model that generates margin requirements that are sufficient to cover its potential future exposures to a Clearing Member in the interval between the last margin collection and the close out of positions following a Clearing Member default. Initial Margin should meet an established singletailed confidence level of at least 99 percent with respect to the estimated distribution of future exposure. b) As part of its risk-based Initial Margin model, the CCP shall:

select an appropriate close-out period for each product that it clears, which shall be
no less than 2 days for transactions concluded on an Exchange and 5 days for transactions concluded over the counter, and document the close-out periods and related analysis for each product type. It shall base its determination upon historical price and liquidity data, as well as reasonably foreseeable events in a default scenario;
select an appropriate sample period to calculate required Initial Margin for each
product that it clears and document the period and related analysis for each product type. Selection of the period should be carefully examined based on the theoretical properties of the model and empirical tests on these properties using historical data;
identify and mitigate any credit exposure that may give rise to specific wrong-way
risk, where an exposure to a Clearing Member is highly likely to increase when the creditworthiness of that Clearing Member is deteriorating; and
address Procyclicality in its margin arrangements to limit the need and likelihood
of large or unexpected margin calls in times of market stress. c) Following the application of offsets and reductions in accordance with paragraph (c) of
Article 35 of these Regulations and without prejudice to the provisions of this Article,
the CCP needs to ensure that Initial Margin meets or exceeds the single-tailed confidence level of at least 99 percent with respect to the estimated distribution of the future exposure of the portfolio.
Article 37 : Variation Margin Methodology
a) The CCP must:
ascertain its current exposure to each Clearing Member by marking each Clearing
Member’s outstanding positions to current market prices;
collect Variation Margin from Clearing Members whose positions have lost value;
and
pay Variation Margin to Clearing Members whose positions have gained value.
b) The CCP has the right to settle any Variation Margin collected against gains and losses. Where the CCP intends to exercise such right, this must:
be provided for in the CCP Rules; and
shall also specify which Securities are subject to such right.
Article 38 : Margin Calls
a) The CCP shall have the right and operational capacity to make both end of day and intraday margin calls, both scheduled and unscheduled, to Clearing Members. Such right shall be included in the CCP Rules. b) Margin calls are transmitted to Clearing Members through an electronic system or other channels that are defined in CCP Rules. Clearing Members are obliged to meet each margin call within the stipulated deadlines determined by the CCP.
Article 39 : Testing Margin Coverage
a) The CCP shall have a reliable source of timely price data as well as procedures and sound valuation models for addressing circumstances in which pricing data or thirdparty sources are not readily available or reliable. The valuation models used by the CCP shall be validated under a variety of market scenarios at least annually by a qualified and independent party to ensure that any such models accurately produce appropriate prices, and where necessary, the CCP should adjust its calculation of Initial Margin to reflect any identified model risk. b) The CCP shall analyse and monitor its model performance and overall margin coverage by conducting rigorous daily backtesting and, on at least a monthly basis, sensitivity analysis. The CCP shall regularly conduct an assessment of the theoretical and empirical properties of its margin model in respect of all products it clears. c) The CCP shall backtest its margin coverage using Clearing Members’ positions from each day in order to evaluate whether there are any exceptions to its margin coverage. This assessment of margin coverage should be considered an integral part of the evaluation of the model’s performance. In case backtesting indicates that the model did not identify the appropriate amount of Initial Margin necessary to achieve the intended coverage, the CCP should have clear procedures for recalibrating its margining system. d) The CCP should test the sensitivity of its margin model coverage using a wide range of parameters and assumptions that reflect possible market conditions in order to understand how the level of margin coverage might be affected by highly stressed market conditions and should ensure that the range of parameters and assumptions captures a variety of historical and hypothetical conditions, including the most-volatile

periods that have been experienced by the markets it serves and extreme changes in the correlations between prices. e) The CCP shall report the results of its backtesting and sensitivity analysis to the Authority on a regular basis, and at a minimum quarterly.

PART 9: CREDIT RISK
Article 40 : Measuring, Monitoring and Mitigating Credit Risk
a) The CCP shall identify sources of credit risk and effectively measure and monitor its credit exposures to Clearing Members and those arising from its payment, Clearing, and settlement processes. In particular, it shall regularly measure and monitor its credit risks throughout the day using timely information. b) The CCP shall establish a robust framework to manage its credit exposures to Clearing Members and the credit risks arising from its payment, Clearing, and settlement processes. In order to estimate the potential future exposures that could result from Clearing Member defaults, the CCP should identify risk factors and monitor potential market developments and conditions that could affect the size and likelihood of its losses in the close out of a defaulting Clearing Member’s positions. c) The CCP shall mitigate its credit risks to the extent possible. d) The CCP shall at all times maintain sufficient financial resources to cover its credit exposure to each Clearing Member fully with a high degree of confidence. In addition, the CCP shall maintain additional financial resources sufficient to cover a wide range of potential stress scenarios that should include, but not be limited to, the default of the two Clearing Members and their affiliates that would potentially cause the largest aggregate credit exposure to the CCP in extreme but plausible market conditions. The CCP shall document its rationale for determining its aggregate levels of total financial resources, and shall share this rationale with the Authority upon request. e) The CCP is entitled to impose risk limits on each of its Clearing Members.
Article 41 : Default Fund
a) To limit the CCP’s credit exposure to its Clearing Members and reduce systemic risk in the market, the CCP shall maintain a pre-funded default fund to cover losses that exceed the losses covered by the margin requirements provided for in Part 8 of these Regulations. b) The CCP may establish more than one default fund for the different classes of instrument that it clears. The level of the default fund shall be sufficient to enable the CCP to withstand the default of its largest Clearing Member or the default of its second and third largest Clearing Members (whichever is greater), each under extreme but

plausible market conditions. The CCP shall develop scenarios of extreme but plausible market conditions, which shall include the most volatile periods that have been experienced by the markets for which the CCP provides its services and a range of potential future scenarios. c) The determination of the size of the default fund in accordance with paragraph (b) of this Article shall be revalued on at least a monthly basis and each time a material change occurs that affects the CCP’s risk exposure. d) The CCP Rules shall establish the minimum size of contributions to the default fund and the criteria to calculate the contributions of each Clearing Member. e) The contributions of each Clearing Member to the default fund shall be proportional to its risks. f) All contributions provided by a Clearing Member to satisfy its default fund contribution must be provided from such Clearing Member’s own balance sheet. The Clearing Member shall not be permitted to use any assets attributable to an Individual Client Account or an Omnibus Client Accounts, or otherwise legally or beneficially owned by a Client, to satisfy such Clearing Member’s default fund contributions to the CCP. g) The CCP shall open and operate separate accounts to maintain the default fund contributions of its Clearing Members.
Article 42 : Dedicated own Resources Allocated from CCP’s own Capital
a) The CCP shall maintain a certain level of financial resources to cover potential losses that exceed the losses covered by the margin requirements provided for in Part 8 of these Regulations and the default fund as provided for in Article 41 of these Regulations. b) The CCP Board shall allocate the quantum of the additional financial resources referred to in paragraph (a) of this Article, but at a minimum shall be no less than 10% of the minimum capital requirement of the CCP as determined in accordance with Article 20 of these Regulations, and shall not be double counted as forming part of the capital base. c) To the extent the CCP has more than one default fund, it shall allocate financial resources in accordance with this Article in proportion to the size of each such default fund.

d) The CCP Board shall review on an annual basis the amount of dedicated own resources. In addition, it shall review on an annual basis, if applicable, the allocation to each default fund.
Article 43 : Testing the Sufficiency of the CCP’s Total Financial Resources
a) The CCP should regularly test the sufficiency of its total financial resources available in the event of a default or multiple defaults in extreme but plausible market conditions through rigorous stress testing. The CCP should have clear procedures to report the results of its stress tests to appropriate internal decision makers at the CCP and to use these results to evaluate the adequacy of and adjust its total financial resources. b) The CCP shall conduct reverse stress tests, as appropriate, aimed at identifying the extreme default scenarios and extreme market conditions in which its total financial resources would be insufficient. c) In conducting stress testing, the CCP shall consider the effect of a wide range of relevant stress scenarios in terms of both defaulters’ positions and possible price changes in liquidation periods. Scenarios should include relevant peak historic price volatilities, shifts in other market factors such as price determinants and yield curves, multiple defaults over various time horizons, simultaneous pressures in funding and asset markets, and a spectrum of forward-looking stress scenarios in a variety of extreme but plausible market conditions. d) Stress tests should be performed on a daily basis using standard and predetermined parameters and assumptions. The CCP, on a regular basis and at least monthly, shall perform a comprehensive and thorough analysis of stress-testing scenarios, models, and underlying parameters and assumptions used to ensure they are appropriate for determining the CCP’s required level of default protection in light of current and evolving market conditions. e) The CCP shall report the results of its stress test to SAMA and notify the Authority of it on a regular basis, and at a minimum quarterly.

PART 10: LIQUIDITY RISK
Article 44 : Measuring and Monitoring Liquidity Risk
a) The CCP shall at all times have access to adequate liquidity and maintain sufficient liquid resources in all relevant currencies to settle its payment obligations on time with a high degree of confidence under a wide range of potential stress scenarios. Such scenarios should include, but not be limited to, the default of the Clearing Member and its affiliates that would generate the largest aggregate payment obligation to the CCP in extreme but plausible market conditions. b) To measure its liquidity requirements, the CCP shall identify its sources of liquidity risk. Such sources shall include, but not to be limited to, the following:

potential defaults of Clearing Members;
the value and concentration of its daily settlement and funding flows through its
settlement banks, payment systems, any bank at which currency is held (whether denominated in SAR or otherwise) and other intermediaries;
the risk that the CCP’s investment activity does not generate the return expected;
payments to settle required margin and other payment obligations over multiple
days to account for multiday hedging and close-out activities as directed by a CCP’s default procedures;
the concentration of its liquidity risks, including its exposures to legal persons in
the same group and interdependencies across different legal persons; and
foreign exchange risk, particularly where liquid resources and settlement
obligations of the CCP are denominated in different currencies. c) On the basis of the measure of liquidity carried out in paragraph (b) of this Article, the CCP shall assess its current and potential future liquidity needs on a daily basis and have in place effective operational and analytical tools to identify, measure, and monitor its settlement and funding flows on an ongoing and timely basis, including its use of intraday liquidity. d) The CCP Rules of the CCP must explicitly enable it to effect same-day as well as, where appropriate, intraday and multiday settlement of payment obligations on time

following any individual or combined default among Clearing Members. The CCP Rules should address unforeseen and potentially uncovered liquidity shortfalls. e) The CCP shall carefully analyse its liquidity needs and shall maintain sufficient liquid resources in all relevant currencies to settle all payment obligations on time with a high degree of confidence under a wide range of potential stress scenarios. The CCP shall regularly assess the design and operation of their liquidity management framework, including considering the results of the stress tests carried out in accordance with
Article 45 of these Regulations.
f) For the purposes of this Part, the following assets shall be considered liquid resources:

the CCP’s cash deposited at SAMA;
the CCP’s cash deposited at commercial banks;
committed lines of credit or equivalent arrangements, save that where such
arrangement is with a defaulting Clearing Member it shall not longer be treated as a liquid resource;
highly marketable financial instruments held in custody and investments that are
readily available and convertible into cash with prearranged and highly reliable funding arrangements, even in extreme but plausible market conditions;
other assets as described and provided for in the CCP Rules.
g) The CCP shall have detailed procedures, which shall be approved by its CCP Board, for using its liquid resources to complete settlement during a liquidity shortfall. Such procedures should clearly document the sequence for using each type of liquid resource.
Article 45 : Stress Testing Liquidity Needs and Resources
a) To ensure that the CCP has sufficient liquid resources to effect settlement of payment obligations with a high degree of confidence under a wide range of potential stress scenarios, the CCP shall regularly test the sufficiency of its liquid resources through rigorous stress testing and shall have clear procedures to report the results of its stress tests to appropriate, internal, decision makers and to use these results to evaluate the adequacy of, and adjust its, liquidity risk management framework. In addition, the CCP

should regularly test its procedures for accessing its liquid resources, including by drawing down test amounts from committed credit facilities. b) In conducting stress testing, the CCP should consider a wide range of relevant scenarios. Such scenarios should include relevant peak historic price volatilities, shifts in other market factors such as price determinants and yield curves, multiple defaults over various time horizons, simultaneous pressures in funding and asset markets, and a spectrum of forward-looking stress scenarios in a variety of extreme but plausible market conditions. c) The CCP shall conduct reverse stress tests aimed at identifying the extreme default scenarios and extreme market conditions for which its liquid resources would be insufficient. d) Liquidity stress testing shall be performed on a daily basis using standard and predetermined parameters and assumptions. The CCP, on a regular basis and at least monthly, shall perform a comprehensive and thorough analysis of stress testing scenarios, models, and underlying parameters and assumptions used to ensure they are appropriate for achieving its identified liquidity needs and resources in light of current and evolving market conditions.

PART 11: SETTLEMENT FINALITY
Article 46 : Settlement Finality
a) The CCP Rules shall clearly define the point at which settlement is final, including the irrevocable and unconditional transfer of an asset or financial instrument, or the discharge of an obligation by the CCP or its Clearing Members in accordance with the terms of the underlying contract. b) The CCP shall complete final settlement no later than the end of the date defined in the CCP Rules on which the payment, transfer instruction or other obligation is due and the associated funds and securities are typically available to the receiving party, and preferably intraday or in real time, to reduce settlement risk. This means that any payment, transfer instruction, or other obligation that has been submitted to, and accepted by, the CCP in accordance with its risk management and other relevant acceptance criteria should be settled on the intended date specified in the CCP Rules. c) The CCP Rules shall clearly define the point after which unsettled payments, transfer instructions, or other obligations may not be revoked by a participant and cut-off times and materiality rules for exceptions shall be clearly defined.
Article 47 : Money Settlements
a) To avoid credit and liquidity risks, the CCP shall conduct its money settlements using money held with SAMA, where practical and available. The CCP may use money made available to it by SAMA subject to SAMA’s policy, requirements, and conditions. b) Where the CCP use of money held or made available at SAMA is not practical or available, it shall conduct its money settlements with little or no credit or liquidity risk. If this involves the CCP settling using money held or made available at a settlement bank, the CCP should monitor, manage, and limit its credit and liquidity risks arising from such settlement banks. In particular, the CCP, in its relation with settlement banks, shall establish and monitor adherence to strict criteria that take account of, without limitation, their regulation and supervision, creditworthiness, capitalisation, access to liquidity and operational reliability. c) In cash settlements referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this Article, the timing of the finality of funds transfers should comply with Article 46 of these Regulations.

Article 48 : Physical Deliveries
The CCP Rules shall clearly state the CCP’s obligations with respect to the physical deliveries. The obligations that the CCP may assume with respect to physical deliveries vary based on the types of assets the CCP settles. The CCP shall clearly state which asset classes it accepts for physical delivery and the procedures surrounding the delivery of each.
Article 49 : Exchange-of-value Settlement System
If the CCP is an exchange-of-value settlement system, it shall have in place an appropriate settlement mechanism to eliminate principal risk by ensuring that the final settlement of one obligation occurs if and only if the final settlement of the linked obligation also occurs, regardless of when finality occurs. The final settlement of two linked obligations can be achieved either on a gross basis or on a net basis.

PART 12: SEGREGATION AND PORTABILITY
Article 50 : Account Types
a) The CCP shall ensure that it employs an account structure that enables it to readily identify positions of a Clearing Member’s Client and to segregate related collateral. b) The CCP shall provide for the benefit of each Clearing Member the following:

House Accounts: the CCP shall provide separate records and accounts that shall
enable it, at any time and without delay, to distinguish in accounts with such CCP the assets and positions held for the account of one Clearing Member from the assets and positions held for the account of any other Clearing Member and from its own assets. Clearing Members shall not be permitted to assign to such House Accounts assets and positions held for the benefit of its Clients (which must be recorded in either an Omnibus Client Account or Individual Client Account);
Omnibus Client Accounts: the CCP shall provide separate records and accounts
enabling such Clearing Member to distinguish in accounts with such CCP the assets and positions of that Clearing Member from those held for the accounts of its Clients. In the event of a shortfall attributable to an Omnibus Client Account, the CCP shall be permitted to apply any assets attributable to such account to cover any such shortfall, notwithstanding that the assets and positions may belong to different Clients held in the same Omnibus Client Account;
Individual Client Accounts: where the CCP provides for this type of account in the
CCP Rules, the CCP shall provide separate records and accounts enabling such Clearing Member to distinguish in accounts with such CCP the assets and positions of a Client from those held for the accounts of its other Clients, its own assets and positions and those of the CCP. The CCP shall have no recourse to the assets and positions attributable to such Individual Client Account in the event of a shortfall in any other account of the Clearing Member (whether it be the House Account, an Omnibus Client Account or another Individual Client Account); and
other account types that are defined in the CCP Rules.
c) The CCP shall offer the Clearing Member, upon request, the possibility to open more accounts in their own name or for the account of their Clients.

d) Collateral that is maintained in an Individual Client Account or Omnibus Client Account shall, at all times, be attributed by the CCP to the Clients named in such accounts and shall only be used by the CCP to cover losses attributable to such account. e) The Clearing Member shall keep separate records and accounts that enable it to distinguish both in accounts held with the CCP and in its own accounts its assets and positions from the assets and positions held for the account of its Clients at such CCP. Such records and accounts shall enable the Clearing Member to distinguish each Client’s assets and positions from other Clients with respect to each Individual Client Account and Omnibus Client Account maintained at the CCP. f) Where the CCP offers Individual Client Accounts, the Clearing Member shall offer its Clients the choice between Omnibus Client Accounts and Individual Client Accounts and inform them of the costs and level of protection associated with each option. The Client shall confirm its choice in writing. g) The requirement to distinguish assets and positions with the CCP in accounts is satisfied where:

the assets and positions are recorded in separate accounts;
positions recorded on different accounts are prevented from being offset; and
the assets covering the positions recorded in an account are not exposed to losses
connected to positions recorded in another account.
For the purposes of this Article, assets do not refer to default fund contributions.
Article 51 : Framework for the Porting of Positions
a) The CCP shall ensure that its account structure is structured to facilitate the transfer of the positions and assets of a defaulting Clearing Member’s Clients to a non-defaulting Clearing Member or, as the case may be, the orderly liquidation of the Clients’ positions and the return of excess collateral to the Clients. Where the positions and assets are those of Exchange members with no clearing memberships, the account structure shall be structured to facilitate the transfer of the positions and assets from the defaulting General Clearing Member to a non-defaulting General Clearing Member. b) The CCP shall not be required to guarantee that positions of a defaulting Clearing Member’s Clients will be ported and shall not be liable for any failure to effect porting.

Article 52 : Requirement to Disclose
a) The CCP shall disclose in its CCP Rules its segregation and portability arrangements in sufficient detail for Clients to understand:

the level of protection being provided, and in particular whether their positions and
collateral held at or through the CCP are segregated from positions and collateral of their Clearing Member and such CCP;
how segregation is achieved, including who holds the segregated assets and
whether such segregated assets are reflected on the books and records at the CCP or custodians that hold assets for the CCP;
under what circumstances Client collateral may be used by the CCP;
whether the CCP offers individual, as well as, omnibus Client segregation;
how portability is achieved; and
any risks or uncertainties associated with such Client segregation and portability
arrangements. b) The CCP Rules must mandate that each Clearing Member shall disclose to their Clients the costs associated with different levels of segregation they, and the CCP, provide and shall offer those services on reasonable commercial terms.

PART 13: CLEARING MEMBER DEFAULT MANAGEMENT
Article 53 : Designation of Clearing Member as Defaulting
a) The CCP Rules shall clearly specify what circumstances constitute a Clearing Member default, and shall address both financial and operational defaults. b) The CCP Rules shall specify whether a declaration of default is automatic or discretionary, and if discretionary, which person(s) exercise that discretion and shall set out the procedures to be followed if an event of default by a Clearing Member is not declared by the CCP. c) The CCP shall review the CCP Rules annually and disclose the key aspects of the default rules and procedures to the public. d) If the CCP designates a Clearing Member as defaulting, it shall immediately notify:

the Authority;
to the extent the defaulting Clearing Member is a Local Bank, SAMA;
the defaulting Clearing Member;
the relevant Exchange on which the cleared contracts of the defaulting Clearing
Member related; and
the Depository Centre, to the extent the cleared contract relates to the Exchange.
e) Without prejudice to the obligation of the CCP to notify the parties specified in paragraph (d) of this Article, if the CCP designates a Clearing Member as defaulting, it shall also promptly publish a notice on its website to this effect. Such notice will be deemed to have informed participants in the market of the designation of the Clearing Member as defaulting.
Article 54 : Default Rules and Procedures
a) Where the CCP considers that a Clearing Member is likely to default, including where it will not be able to meet its future obligations, the CCP shall promptly notify the Authority before the default procedure is declared. Such notification shall include a brief description of any measures taken or proposed to be taken by the CCP. Where

such Clearing Member is a Local Bank, the CCP shall also promptly notify SAMA and consult and collaborate with it before the default procedure is declared. b) The CCP’s default rules and procedures shall enable the CCP to take prompt action to contain losses and liquidity pressures, before, at and after the point at which the Clearing Member has defaulted. In taking any action, the CCP shall ensure that the closing out of any positions of such Clearing Member does not impact its operations or expose non-defaulting Clearing Members to losses they cannot anticipate or control. c) Without prejudice to paragraph (b) of this Article, the CCP Rules of the CCP may permit the CCP to:

require non-defaulting Clearing Members to agree in advance to bid on the
defaulting Clearing Member’s portfolio; and
should such auction fail, require the Clearing Member to accept an allocation of
the portfolio. d) Where used, such procedures should include consideration of the risk profile and portfolio of each Clearing Member before allocating positions so as to minimise additional risk for the non-defaulting Clearing Members. e) In the default of a Clearing Member, the CCP shall use the resources in the following order:
proprietary assets provided by such defaulting Clearing Member, which shall
include both collateral and the default fund contributions of that defaulting Clearing Member. The CCP shall not be entitled to use the assets of the Clients of such defaulting Clearing Member.
its dedicated own resources as provided for in Article 42 of these Regulations. Once
these dedicated resources are exhausted, a party will have no recourse to any other asset of the CCP, as provided in paragraph (f) of Article 8 of these Regulations, unless otherwise provided in the CCP Rules;
default fund contributions of non-defaulting Clearing Members provided in
accordance with Article 41 of these Regulations; and
additional default fund contributions from non-defaulting Clearing Members in
accordance with the terms of the CCP Rules of such CCP.

f) Upon the default of a Clearing Member who has cleared positions on behalf of Clients (including Exchange members with no clearing memberships), the CCP shall be required to trigger the process of dealing with the assets and positions recorded in the accounts of Clients of such defaulting Clearing Member as follows:

where the account is an Omnibus Client Account, the CCP shall be permitted to
apply any collateral attributed to the account to cover losses in such account notwithstanding that the collateral and losses may belong to different Clients held in the same Omnibus Client Account. To the extent another Clearing Member has agreed to accept the assets and positions attributable to such Omnibus Client Account, such assets and positions will be ported. If the transfer to another Clearing Member does not take place within the time specified in the CCP’s default rules and procedures, the CCP may take all steps permitted by its rules to actively manage its risks in relation to such positions, including liquidating the assets and positions for the account of the Clients of such Omnibus Client Account;
where the account is an Individual Client Account, the CCP shall port the assets
and positions in such Individual Client Account to the extent another Clearing Member has agreed to accept such assets and positions. If the transfer to another Clearing Member does not take place within the time specified in the CCP’s default rules and procedures, the CCP may take all steps permitted by its rules to actively manage its risks in relation to the positions in such Individual Client Account, including liquidating the assets and positions for the account of the Client of such Individual Client Account;
without prejudice to the provisions of this Article, where the account is an account
of an Exchange member with no clearing membership, the CCP may only permit porting of such assets and positions to another General Clearing Member; and
to the extent there is any balance owed by the CCP after the completion of the
defaulting Clearing Member’s default management process, such balance shall be readily returned to those Clients when they are known to the CCP or, if they are not, to the Clearing Member for the account of its clients. g) After the application of the proprietary assets of a defaulting Clearing Member, in accordance with paragraph (e) of this Article, the CCP shall use its default fund contributions, as provided for in Article 42 of these Regulations, before applying the default fund provided by non-defaulting Clearing Members.

Article 55 : Periodic Testing and Review of Default Procedures
The CCP shall test and review its default procedures to ensure that they are practical and effective. Such testing and review should be conducted at least annually or following material changes to the rules and procedures.

PART 14: CCP RECOVERY
Article 56 : CCP Recovery Plan
a) The CCP shall have a comprehensive and effective recovery plan designed to permit it to continue to provide its critical services. b) In determining its recovery plan, the CCP shall take into account the interests of all Clearing Members, Clients of Clearing Members and other stakeholders who are likely to be affected by the recovery plan and shall establish appropriate procedures to ensure consulting with them in the formulation of the recovery plan. c) For the purposes of developing its recovery plan, the CCP shall identify:

The critical services it provides, which shall at a minimum include its clearing,
settlement and recording functions;
scenarios that may prevent it from being able to provide its critical services, which
shall at a minimum include credit losses or liquidity shortfalls created by a Clearing Member default, general business losses, liquidity shortfalls, the realisation of investment losses and risks taken on third party providers, and on such basis identify:
a. the criteria that will trigger the implementation of part or all of the recovery plan; b. the appropriate recovery tools, the necessary steps and time needed to implement them and the associated risks to the CCP, its Clearing Members, Clients of Clearing Members and the market more generally if such tools are employed. d) The CCP should disclose, to those affected by the recovery plan, sufficient information about the recovery plan, including the degree of the CCP’s discretion to exercise judgement. e) The CCP shall be required to carry out periodic simulations and scenario exercises to test and review its recovery plan. Such testing must be carried out at least annually as well as following changes to the CCP Rules that would materially affect the recovery plan. The CCP shall update its recovery plan as needed after the completion of each test and review.

Article 57 : Approving the CCP Recovery Plan
a) The CCP Board must approve the CCP recovery plan and obtain the Authority’s and SAMA’s approvals of such plan. b) The CCP shall inform the Authority and SAMA immediately of any proposed changes to its recovery plan. Any proposed changes shall be subject to the Authority’s and SAMA’s approvals. c) The CCP shall obtain SAMA’s non-objection prior to the implementation of any part of the recovery plan, including the recovery tools to be employed as a result of such implementation, and shall also immediately notify the Authority.

PART 15: OTHER CCP OBLIGATIONS
Article 58 : Communication Procedures and Standards
The CCP shall use internationally accepted communication procedures to facilitate effective communication between its information systems, and those of its Clearing Members, their Clients, and others that connect to the CCP such as service providers. It shall also use internationally accepted communication standards, such as standardised messaging formats and reference data standards for identifying financial instruments and Clearing Members.
Article 59 : Control Systems
a) To establish a sound risk management framework, the CCP shall identify and regularly review the range of risks that arise within its system and the risks it directly bears from or poses to Clearing Members and Clients of Clearing Members. It shall identify those risks that could materially affect its ability to perform or to provide services as expected. b) The CCP shall identify and regularly review the material risks it bears from and poses to other legal persons (such as payment systems, settlement banks, liquidity providers and service providers) as a result of interdependencies and develop appropriate risk management tools to address such risks. c) The CCP Board and Senior Executives of a CCP are ultimately responsible for managing the CCP’s risks. The board should determine an appropriate level of aggregate risk tolerance and capacity for the CCP and shall establish policies, procedures, and controls that are consistent with the CCP’s risk tolerance and capacity. The CCP’s policies, procedures, and controls should address all relevant risks, including legal, credit, liquidity, general business, and operational risks. d) The CCP shall employ robust information and risk control systems to provide it with the capacity to obtain timely information necessary to apply risk management policies and procedures. In particular, these systems should allow for the accurate and timely measurement and aggregation of risk exposures across the CCP, the management of individual risk exposures and the interdependencies between them, and the assessment of the impact of various economic and financial shocks that could affect the CCP.

Article 60 : Record Keeping
a) The CCP shall retain the following for a period of ten years at a minimum (unless the Authority specifies otherwise):

all the records on the services and activity provided so as to enable the Authority
to monitor the CCP’s compliance with these Regulations; and
all information on all contracts it has processed following the termination of such
contracts. That information shall at least enable the identification of the original terms of a transaction before Clearing by the CCP. b) All records or information required to be kept by the CCP under these Regulations shall be provided to the Authority upon its request. The Authority may inspect the records directly or through a person it appoints for that purpose. c) The CCP shall maintain records with respect to all transactions in all contracts cleared by the CCP and ensure that its records include all information necessary to conduct a comprehensive and accurate reconstruction of the Clearing process for each contract. Each record on each transaction shall be uniquely identifiable and searchable by all fields concerning the CCP, Clearing Member, Client of a Clearing Member, if known to the CCP, and financial instrument. d) The CCP shall maintain records of positions held by each Clearing Member. Separate records shall be held for each account kept in accordance with Part 12 of these Regulations. The CCP shall ensure that its records include all information necessary to conduct a comprehensive and accurate reconstruction of the transactions that established the position. Each record shall be identifiable and searchable at least by all fields concerning the CCP, Clearing Member, Client of a Clearing Member, if known to the CCP, and financial instrument. e) At the end of each business day, the CCP shall make a record in relation to each position including the following details, to the extent they are linked to the position in question:
the identification of the Clearing Member and Client of a Clearing Member, if
known to the CCP;
the sign of the position; and
the daily calculation of the value of the position with records of the prices at which
the contracts are valued, and of any other relevant information. f) The CCP shall make, and keep updated, a record of the amounts of margins, default fund contributions and other financial resources called by the CCP and the corresponding amount actually provided by a Clearing Member at the end of day and changes to that amount that may occur intraday, with respect to each Clearing Member, Client of a Clearing Member, if known to the CCP. g) The CCP shall maintain a register of all derivative contracts cleared by the CCP and the underlying Securities or instruments to which such transactions relate. h) Records of the CCP may be recorded in any form, but must be capable of reproduction in hard printed form. i) When a Clearing Member of the CCP or a former Clearing Member of the CCP requests any records kept during the regulatory record-keeping period, the CCP must make available, within a reasonable period, any of the following:
any written material or records which relate to that Clearing Member; and
copies of any correspondence received from or sent to that Clearing Member
relating to Clearing services.
Article 61 : Disclosure of CCP Rules and Material Costs to Clearing Members
a) The CCP shall adopt clear and comprehensive rules and procedures and fully disclose them to Clearing Members. b) A CCP shall, at a minimum, publicly disclose free of charge the following:
information regarding its governance arrangements;
its CCP Rules;
its rights and obligations, as well as those of each Clearing Member;
key aspects of its default rules and procedures;
its fees at the level of individual services it offers as well as its policies on any
available discounts; and
basic data on transaction volumes and values.
c) The CCP shall have a clear process for proposing and implementing changes to the CCP Rules. d) The CCP shall make the information and data referred to in paragraph (b) of this Article available on its website in Arabic and any other language the Authority may require. The data should be accompanied by explanatory documentation that enables users to understand and interpret the data correctly.

PART 16: OPERATIONAL RISK
Article 62 : Identifying Sources of Operational Risk
The CCP shall identify, monitor, and manage the various sources of operational risk and establish clear policies and procedures to address them. As part of this process, it should:

identify all potential single points of failure in its operations, which shall include
internal processes (including, without limitation, deficiencies in its information systems, inadequate screening of its personnel and inadequate control of systems and processes) and external events (including, without limitation, the failure of critical service providers and the occurrence of natural disasters);
assess the evolving nature of the operational risk it faces on an ongoing basis, and
analyse its potential vulnerabilities and implement appropriate defence
mechanisms.
Article 63 : Operational Risk Management
a) The CCP Board, either directly or through a relevant committee, shall establish clear policies and procedures that mitigate and manage the CCP’s sources of operational risk. In particular, such policies and procedures must explicitly define the roles and responsibilities for addressing operational risk and endorse the CCP’s operational riskmanagement framework. The CCP’s operational risk-management framework should include setting operational standards, measuring and reviewing performance, correcting deficiencies, formal change-management and project-management processes to mitigate operational risk arising from modifications to operations and policies. A key competent to a sound operational risk-management framework is the requirement for the CCP to employ sufficient, well qualified, personnel who should be able to operate the system safely and efficiently during both normal and abnormal circumstances. b) The CCP shall test its arrangements with participants, including its operational policies and procedures, on a periodic basis. In order to minimise the effects of testing on operations, tests should be carried out in an environment which replicates, as far as possible, the environment under which such operations will need to adapt to abnormal circumstances and potential major incidents. This will include a periodic review to consider whether new technologies and business developments should be incorporated.

c) The CCP shall manage operation incidents carefully and have comprehensive and welldocumented procedures in place to record, report, analyse, and resolve all such incidents. The CCP shall undertake a review after every significant disruption to identify the causes and any required improvement to the normal operations or business continuity arrangements.
Article 64 : Business Continuity Management
a) The business continuity plan is a key component of the CCP’s risk management framework. All aspects of the business continuity plan should be clearly and fully documented. The business continuity plan must:

identify and address events that pose a significant risk of disrupting operations,
including events that could cause a wide-scale or major disruption;
focus on the impact on the operation of critical infrastructures and services if the
identified events, including both internal and external threats, were to occur;
include clearly stated objectives which deal with both measures that prevent
disruptions of critical operations and policies and procedures to mitigate the effect of such disruption events by allowing for the rapid recovery and timely resumption of the operations of the CCP following a disruption. In this regard, the CCP should be able to resume operations within two hours following disruption events and should be able to complete settlement by the end of the day even in extreme circumstances; and
include clearly defined procedures for crisis and event management.
b) To ensure that the CCP is able to meet its objectives, the CCP shall set up a secondary physical off-site with sufficient resources, capabilities, and functionalities and appropriate staffing arrangements that would not be affected by a wide-scale disruption and would allow the secondary physical off-site to take over operations if required. The secondary physical off-site should provide the level of critical services necessary to perform the functions consistent with the recovery time objective identified by the CCP, which at a minimum shall require that the information technology systems can resume operations within two hours following disruptive events. c) The business continuity plan and associated arrangements of the CCP shall be subject to periodic review and testing. Tests should address various scenarios that simulate wide-scale disasters and inter-site switchovers. The CCP, after every test or significant

disruption, shall undertake a review to identify the causes and any required improvement to its business continuity plan. d) The CCP shall be required to communicate with the Authority in the case of a major disruption to its operations or any event of a wider market distress that affects the CCP. The CCP shall also promptly inform the Authority of any material amendments to its business continuity plan to the extent permitted. The Authority, in its discretion, may require the CCP to resubmit a copy of its amended business continuity plan.

PART 17: LINKS BETWEEN CCPS
Article 65 : Interoperability Arrangements
a) The CCP may enter into an Interoperability Arrangement with other CCPs to enable its Clearing Members to clear transactions with participants in the other CCP and shall be permitted to do this where:

the requirements laid down in Article 66 and Article 67 of these Regulations are
fulfilled; and
such CCP demonstrates its compliance with these requirements, as well as being
able to demonstrate that the terms of the Interoperability Arrangement will provide for the smooth and orderly functioning of the market. In addition, the Authority approval must be obtained prior to such Interoperability Arrangement becoming effective. b) When establishing an interoperability arrangement with another CCP for the purpose of providing services to a particular trading venue, the trading venue must provide such CCP with the same level of access as afforded to other CCPs who satisfy the same operational and technical requirements mandated by the trading venue or its settlement systems.
Article 66 : Risk Management of Interoperability Arrangements
In order to enter into an Interoperability Arrangement, the CCP shall:
have in place policies, procedures and systems to identify, monitor and manage the
risk arising from such Interoperability Arrangement, including the risk that a participant of the other CCP, or the other CCP itself, may default and how this would impact such CCP;
agree on each party’s respective rights and obligations. Where the other CCP is
established outside of the Kingdom, this agreement must also include the governing law which will govern the terms of such Interoperability Arrangement; and
to the extent the determination of exposure for transactions between the two CCP’s
differs, identify such differences, assess the risks that may arise from such differences and take appropriate measure to limit such risks on the CCP’s operations.

Article 67 : Provision of Margin Among CCPs
a) The CCP and each CCP with whom the CCP has an Interoperability Arrangement shall distinguish in accounts the assets and positions held for the account of the other CCP. b) If the CCP with whom a CCP has an Interoperability Arrangement only provides initial margins to that other under a security financial collateral arrangement, the receiving CCP shall have no right of use over the margins provided by such CCP. c) Collateral received in the form of financial instruments shall be deposited with operators of securities settlement systems. d) The assets referred to in paragraphs (b) and (c) of this Article shall be available to the receiving CCP only in case of default of the CCP which has provided the collateral in the context of an Interoperability Arrangement. e) In case of default of the CCP which has received the collateral in the context of an Interoperability Arrangement, the collateral referred to in paragraphs (b) and (c) of this
Article shall be readily returned to the providing CCP.

PART 18: QUALIFYING CENTRAL COUNTERPARTY
Article 68 : Recognition of Qualifying Central Counterparty status
a) The CCP may apply to the Authority to be designated as a Qualifying Central Counterparty. b) The Authority shall publish on its website the CCPs that it designates as Qualifying Central Counterparties. c) To the extent the Principles for Financial Market Infrastructures are amended after the initial designation by the Authority, the Authority shall promptly review whether such changes impact a CCP’s qualification as a Qualifying Central Counterparty. The CCP shall be required to promptly respond to any requests of the Authority for information or access in order for the Authority to make such a determination. d) If the Authority revokes a CCP’s designation as a Qualifying Central Counterparty, it shall publish a notice on its website confirming this and confirming the date on which such designation will be revoked, which will be no earlier than 6 months from the date of designation. Until such time as the Authority publishes such notice, participants including Clearing Members shall be entitled to rely on the existing designation being in full force and valid.

PART 19: PUBLICATION AND ENTRY INTO FORCE
Article 69 : Publication and Entry into Force
These Regulations shall become effective upon their publication.

Securities Central Counterparties Regulations

Lineage: In force

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