Notice2025-14662

Self-Regulatory Organizations; The Options Clearing Corporation; Order Granting Approval of Proposed Rule Change by The Options Clearing Corporation Concerning Amendments to OCC's Comprehensive Stress Testing & Clearing Fund Methodology, and Liquidity Risk Management Description (“Methodology Description”) and Clearing Fund Methodology Policy (Together With the Methodology Description, the “Risk Policies”) To Enhance Its Stress Testing Methodology

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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 147 (Monday, August 4, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 36457-36461]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-14662]


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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

[Release No. 34-103597; File Nos. SR-OCC-2025-009]


Self-Regulatory Organizations; The Options Clearing Corporation; 
Order Granting Approval of Proposed Rule Change by The Options Clearing 
Corporation Concerning Amendments to OCC's Comprehensive Stress Testing 
& Clearing Fund Methodology, and Liquidity Risk Management Description 
(``Methodology Description'') and Clearing Fund Methodology Policy 
(Together With the Methodology Description, the ``Risk Policies'') To 
Enhance Its Stress Testing Methodology

July 30, 2025.

I. Introduction

    On June 11, 2025, the Options Clearing Corporation (``OCC'') filed 
with the Securities and Exchange Commission (``Commission'') the 
proposed rule change SR-OCC-2025-009, pursuant to Section 19(b) of the 
Securities Exchange Act of 1934

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(``Exchange Act'') \1\ and Rule 19b-4 \2\ thereunder, to enhance its 
stress testing methodology.\3\ The proposed rule change was published 
for public comment in the Federal Register on June 27, 2025.\4\ The 
Commission has received no comments regarding the proposed rule change. 
For the reasons discussed below, the Commission is approving the 
proposed rule change (hereinafter defined as ``Proposed Rule Change'').
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    \1\ 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(1).
    \2\ 17 CFR 240.19b-4.
    \3\ See Notice, infra note 4, at 90 FR 27739.
    \4\ See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 103308 (June 24, 
2025), 90 FR 27739 (June 27, 2025) (File No. SR-OCC-2025-009) 
(``Notice'').
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II. Background

    OCC is a central counterparty (``CCP''), which means that, as part 
of its function, it interposes itself as the buyer to every seller and 
the seller to every buyer for certain financial transactions. As the 
CCP for the listed options markets in the United States,\5\ as well as 
for certain futures and stock loans, OCC is exposed to certain risks 
arising from providing clearing and settlement services to its Clearing 
Members. Because OCC is obligated to perform on the contracts it 
clears, even where one of its Clearing Members defaults, OCC is exposed 
to credit risk \6\ and liquidity risk \7\ in the form of exposure to a 
Clearing Member's trading activities. OCC manages such risk, in part, 
by performing daily stress testing \8\ that covers a wide range of 
scenarios.\9\
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    \5\ OCC describes itself as ``the sole clearing agency for 
standardized equity options listed on a national securities exchange 
registered with the Commission (`listed options').'' See Securities 
Exchange Act Release No. 96533 (Dec. 19, 2022), 87 FR 79015 (Dec. 
23, 2022) (File No. SR-OCC-2022-012).
    \6\ Credit risk is the risk that a counterparty will be unable 
to meet fully its financial obligations when due, or at any time in 
the future. Bank for International Settlements & International 
Organization of Securities Commissions, Principles for Financial 
Market Infrastructures section 2.5, <a href="https://www.bis.org/cpmi/publ/d101a.pdf">https://www.bis.org/cpmi/publ/d101a.pdf</a>.
    \7\ Liquidity risk is the risk that a counterparty will have 
insufficient funds to meet its financial obligations as and when 
expected, although it may be able to do so in the future. Id. at 
section 2.6.
    \8\ Stress testing is the estimation of credit or liquidity 
exposures that would result from the realization of potential stress 
scenarios, such as extreme price changes, multiple defaults, or 
changes in other valuation inputs and assumptions. 17 CFR 240.17Aa-
22(a).
    \9\ See OCC Rule 1001, OCC's Rules and By-Laws, available at 
<a href="https://www.theocc.com/about/publications/bylaws.jsp">https://www.theocc.com/about/publications/bylaws.jsp</a>.
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    OCC groups its stress testing scenarios into different categories, 
including Sufficiency Scenarios, Adequacy Scenarios, Sizing Scenarios, 
and Informational Scenarios.\10\ OCC states that its current 
Sufficiency Scenarios are variations of historical scenarios that 
attempt to replicate historical events under current market 
conditions.\11\ These scenarios are designed to measure OCC's potential 
exposure to a Clearing Member Group's portfolios relative to OCC's 
resources so that OCC can determine whether to call for additional or 
different collateral.\12\
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    \10\ Capitalized terms used but not defined herein have the 
meanings specified in OCC's Rules and By-Laws, supra note 9.
    \11\ See Notice, 90 FR at 27740. For example, among the listed 
Sufficiency Scenarios are scenarios that replicate the most extreme 
rally and decline in 2008.
    \12\ Notice, 90 FR at 27740.
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    Adequacy Scenarios allow OCC to assess whether collected resources 
are adequate to cover OCC's risk tolerance of a 1-in-50 year 
statistical market event over a two-year lookback, while sizing 
scenarios help OCC size its financial resources.\13\ Finally, OCC uses 
Informational Scenarios to monitor and assess the size of OCC's 
prefunded financial resources against a wide range of stress scenarios 
for informational and risk monitoring purposes.\14\ Informational 
Scenarios are used for risk monitoring and informational purposes, and 
not used to determine the size and composition of OCC's financial 
resources, but OCC's Risk Committee may approve adjustments that 
recategorize an Informational Scenario as an Adequacy, Sufficiency, or 
Sizing Scenario.\15\
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    \13\ Id.
    \14\ Id.
    \15\ Id.
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II. Description of the Proposed Rule Change

    The Proposed Rule Change would make three groups of changes related 
to OCC's stress testing methodology in its Risk Policies. First, it 
would recategorize certain Informational Scenarios as Sufficiency 
Scenarios, while conversely also recategorizing certain Sufficiency 
Scenarios into Informational Scenarios. As a result, six recategorized 
scenarios would be promoted to determine potential calls for additional 
collateral as Sufficiency Scenarios. Eight current Sufficiency 
Scenarios, meanwhile, would be demoted and no longer used to determine 
such calls. Second, the Proposed Rule Change would modify the sample 
list of stress scenarios in the Methodology Description \16\ to 
streamline and more clearly present the sample of scenarios codified in 
the document and would add detail to OCC's Rules outlining 
circumstances under which OCC could require Clearing Members to 
contribute additional collateral due to the results of Sufficiency 
Scenarios. Third, OCC proposes to amend language in its Risk Policies 
related to scenario calibration to more clearly describe cadence and 
implementation. Such differences are described in more detail below.
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    \16\ The Methodology Description describes the Comprehensive 
Stress Testing & Clearing Fund Methodology and Liquidity Risk 
Management Description that OCC uses to analyze the adequacy of its 
financial resources and to challenge its risk management framework. 
See Exchange Act Release No. 100147 (May 15, 2024), 89 FR 44752, 
44753 n.5 (May 21, 2024 (File No. SR-OCC-2024-006).
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A. Recategorization of Scenarios

    As stated above, OCC is proposing to recategorize certain scenarios 
that are part of its Risk Policies.\17\ OCC's Methodology Description 
lists a subset of the Sufficiency Scenarios that have been implemented 
in OCC's stress testing system.
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    \17\ See Notice, 90 FR at 27740.
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    OCC proposes to promote six Informational Scenarios to Sufficiency 
Scenarios. OCC also proposes to demote eight historical Sufficiency 
Scenarios to Informational Scenarios. Four of the Informational 
Scenarios that OCC proposes to promote to Sufficiency Scenarios are 
sector-specific scenarios. The proposed sector-specific scenarios are 
hypothetical scenarios that apply price shocks based on a corresponding 
sector exchange-traded-fund's return during the selected time period. 
These would become OCC's first sector-specific Sufficiency Scenarios. 
OCC states that the proposed sector-specific scenarios yielded 
exposures that were generally in line with its current, most impactful 
Sufficiency Scenarios.\18\
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    \18\ See Notice, 90 FR at 27741. See also Securities Exchange 
Act Release No. 90827 (Dec. 30, 2020), 86 FR 659 (Jan. 6, 2021) 
(File No. SR-OCC-2020-015). OCC provided data and analysis 
concerning the proposed rule change in a confidential exhibit to 
File No. SR-OCC-2025-009, including the performance of the proposed 
scenarios relative to existing scenarios.
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    The other two Informational Scenarios that OCC proposes to promote 
to Sufficiency Scenarios represent the most extreme market rally and 
decline moves in 2020. OCC has already implemented Sufficiency 
Scenarios related to extreme 2020 market moves under its waterfall 
approach.\19\ The two scenarios now proposed for promotion

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would complement OCC's existing Sufficiency Scenarios by directly 
applying a risk driver beta-derived price shock instead of using the 
waterfall approach.\20\ OCC found that the proposed scenarios yielded 
exposures that were consistently higher than those generated by the 
corresponding Sufficiency Scenarios and were comparable to overall peak 
Sufficiency Scenario exposures.\21\
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    \19\ See Notice, 90 FR at 27741 n.11. For OCC's waterfall 
approach, the actual return of the risk factor during the historical 
event is used as the price shock, if available. If unavailable, a 
proxy market return from a corresponding sector is used as the price 
shock. Finally, if data is unavailable for both actual and sector 
returns, the price shock is determined by the beta of the risk 
factor to its assigned risk driver multiplied by the corresponding 
risk driver shock (the ``risk driver beta-derived price shock''). 
The beta is the sensitivity of the price of a security relative to 
the price of the risk driver. See Notice, 90 FR at 27741 n.10.
    \20\ OCC previously promoted Informational Scenarios that take a 
beta derived price shock approach to complement existing scenarios 
that rely on a waterfall approach for scenarios related to extreme 
market moves in 2008. See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 100147 
(May 15, 2024), 89 FR 44752 (May 21, 2024) (File No. SR-OCC-2024-
006).
    \21\ See Notice, 90 FR at 27741.
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    OCC states that the proposed rule change would enable OCC to test 
the sufficiency of its financial resources under a wider range of 
relevant stress scenarios and respond quickly when OCC believes 
additional financial resources are necessary.\22\ OCC would also be 
able to measure the exposure of OCC's Clearing Fund to the portfolios 
of individual Clearing Member Groups to determine whether to call for 
additional resources.\23\
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    \22\ See Notice, 90 FR at 27743.
    \23\ See Notice, 90 FR at 27741.
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    As stated above, OCC also proposes to demote certain Sufficiency 
Scenarios to Informational Scenarios. These eight scenarios attempt to 
replicate historical events that occurred between 1974 and 2008, but 
using current market conditions. OCC states that these scenarios 
consistently ranked the lowest in terms of shortfalls generated and had 
no impact on the amount of financial resources OCC collected from its 
members.\24\ OCC states that proposed changes would avoid unnecessary 
complexity in OCC's stress testing methodology by removing superfluous 
Sufficiency Scenarios.\25\
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    \24\ Id.
    \25\ Id.
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B. Streamlining the Methodology Description

    As stated above, OCC also proposes to streamline the sample of 
scenarios it presents in its Methodology Description.\26\ To do this, 
OCC proposes three specific changes. First, OCC proposes to change the 
format of its ``Clearing Fund Sizing and Stress Testing'' section 
within its Methodology Description into a narrative from the current 
list-format. OCC also proposes to make conforming changes to the 
Liquidity Stress Testing section. The proposed changes would allow OCC 
to add new scenarios approved through its internal governance 
processes.
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    \26\ Id.
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    Second, OCC proposes changes to clarify its authority to size the 
Clearing Fund. OCC establishes the size of its Clearing Fund to cover 
losses arising under a 1-in-80 year hypothetical market event.\27\ 
OCC's Clearing Fund Methodology Policy allows the Stress Testing 
Working Group (``STWG'') to recommend that a 1-in-90 year event be used 
in OCC's Sizing Scenarios, subject to applicable governance 
requirements.\28\ OCC proposes to clarify in the Methodology 
Description that OCC can size the Clearing Fund in accordance with a 
standard that exceeds a 1-in-80 year event, if the STWG, Management 
Committee, and Risk Committee determine a more extreme scenario is 
necessary.
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    \27\ See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 90603 (Dec. 8, 
2020), 85 FR 80829 (Dec. 14, 2020) (File No. SR-OCC-2020-015).
    \28\ See Notice, 90 FR at 27742.
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    Finally, OCC proposes to replace references to specific 
Informational Scenarios in its Clearing Fund Methodology Policy with a 
more general description of such scenarios. The Clearing Fund 
Methodology Policy already affords the STWG the authority to approve 
both the creation and retirement of Informational Scenarios. OCC 
proposes to describe the Informational Scenarios, but to remove 
references to specific scenarios entirely. Informational Scenarios have 
no impact on the amount of financial resources collected from OCC's 
members. Because these specific scenarios are not needed to understand 
how the model currently works, do not impact model results, and are 
subject to change from time to time based on market conditions, OCC 
does not believe that they need not be maintained in its rules.\29\
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    \29\ See Notice, 90 FR at 27742.
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C. Cadence and Implementation

    As stated above, OCC has also proposed additional changes regarding 
cadence and other administrative matters.\30\ In this regard, OCC's 
proposal generally consists of three larger categories of changes. 
First, OCC proposes to change how frequently it is required to 
calibrate stress scenarios. Currently, OCC's Methodology Description 
requires OCC to calibrate scenarios annually and to review them 
quarterly. OCC's practice, however, is to recalibrate scenarios at 
least quarterly.\31\ OCC proposes to amend the Methodology Description 
to require quarterly recalibration. Relatedly, OCC proposes changes 
regarding who determines whether more frequent calibration is required. 
The Methodology Description currently states that either OCC's 
Quantitative Risk Management team (``QRM'') or STWG determines that 
updates are necessary. OCC proposes to amend the Methodology 
Description consistent with its current practice for STWG to make such 
determinations.\32\
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    \30\ Id.
    \31\ Id.
    \32\ Id.
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    Second, OCC proposes changes to the Comprehensive Stress Testing 
Methodology to document two missing entries from the list of key tenors 
for computing volatility, specifically adding 1-week and 2-week tenors. 
OCC states that these entries were inadvertently excluded from 
previously approved changes made by OCC in connection with enhancements 
to its modelling approach for implied volatility.\33\
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    \33\ Id.
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    Finally, OCC proposes to correct errors in the Methodology 
Description. The Liquidity Stress testing section of the Methodology 
Description currently states that OCC adheres to a Cover 2 standard for 
liquidity stress testing. OCC proposes to correct the Methodology 
Description to state that OCC adheres to a Cover 1 standard for 
liquidity stress testing, which is OCC's practice. OCC also proposes 
changes to resolve typographical errors, such as grammatical changes 
and updating the list of references in the Methodological Description.

III. Discussion and Commission Findings

    Section 19(b)(2)(C) of the Exchange Act directs the Commission to 
approve a proposed rule change of a self-regulatory organization if it 
finds that such proposed rule change is consistent with the 
requirements of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations 
thereunder applicable to such organization.\34\ Under the Commission's 
Rules of Practice, the ``burden to demonstrate that a proposed rule 
change is consistent with the Exchange Act and the rules and 
regulations issued thereunder . . . is on the self-regulatory 
organization [`SRO'] that proposed the rule change.'' \35\
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    \34\ 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(2)(C).
    \35\ Rule 700(b)(3), Commission Rules of Practice, 17 CFR 
201.700(b)(3).
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    The description of a proposed rule change, its purpose and 
operation, its effect, and a legal analysis of its consistency with 
applicable requirements must all be sufficiently detailed and specific 
to support an affirmative Commission finding,\36\ and

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any failure of an SRO to provide this information may result in the 
Commission not having a sufficient basis to make an affirmative finding 
that a proposed rule change is consistent with the Exchange Act and the 
applicable rules and regulations.\37\ Moreover, ``unquestioning 
reliance'' on an SRO's representations in a proposed rule change is not 
sufficient to justify Commission approval of a proposed rule 
change.\38\
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    \36\ Id.
    \37\ Id.
    \38\ Susquehanna Int'l Group, LLP v. Securities and Exchange 
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    After carefully considering the Proposed Rule Change, the 
Commission finds that the Proposed Rule Change is consistent with the 
requirements of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations 
thereunder applicable to OCC. More specifically, the Commission finds 
that the Proposed Rule Change is consistent with Section 17A(b)(3)(F) 
of the Exchange Act,\39\ and Rules 17ad-22(e)(4) \40\ and 17ad-22(e)(7) 
\41\ as described in detail below.
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    \39\ 15 U.S.C. 78q-1(b)(3)(F).
    \40\ 17 CFR 240.17ad-22(e)(4).
    \41\ 17 CFR 240.17ad-22(e)(7).
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A. Consistency With Section 17A(b)(3)(F) of the Exchange Act

    Section 17A(b)(3)(F) of the Exchange Act requires, among other 
things, that a clearing agency's rules are ``designed to promote the 
prompt and accurate clearance and settlement of securities 
transactions, . . . derivative agreements, contracts, and transactions, 
. . . [and] to assure the safeguarding of securities and funds which 
are in the custody or control of the clearing agency or for which it is 
responsible.'' \42\
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    \42\ 15 U.S.C. 78q-1(b)(3)(F).
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    As discussed above, the proposed changes would allow OCC to (1) 
promote existing Informational Scenarios to Sufficiency Scenarios. 
Specifically, OCC would implement its first sector-specific Sufficiency 
Scenarios, as well as variations on existing Sufficiency Scenarios 
focused on extreme market moves in 2020. Once these scenarios are 
promoted to Sufficiency Scenarios, they would be used to determine 
whether it is necessary to call for additional margin intra-day or to 
increase the size of the Clearing Fund intra-month. By elevating these 
Informational Scenarios to Sufficiency Scenarios, OCC creates a wider 
range of stress scenarios. Similarly, OCC's proposed clarification 
regarding its existing authority to size the Clearing Fund would 
support OCC's ability to consider additional, more conservative 
scenarios when determining the resources to collect from its members. 
Having a wider range of stress scenarios should, in turn, increase the 
likelihood that OCC will have sufficient collateral on hand to address 
a default without resorting to loss mutualization through the use of 
non-defaulting Clearing Members' contributions to the Clearing Fund. 
Because it avoids loss mutualization, the Proposed Rule Change is 
consistent with the safeguarding of securities and funds which are in 
OCC's custody or control. While OCC also proposes demoting certain 
Sufficiency Scenarios, the data provided by OCC, which the Commission 
has reviewed and analyzed, demonstrates that such demotion would not 
impact the financial resources OCC collects from members.
    OCC also proposes to amend the Methodology Description by 
transitioning its scenario list to a narrative format and removing 
certain scenarios as outlined above. OCC has also proposed correcting 
certain errors, including to address typographical and grammatical 
errors, and to add certain tenors used for computing volatility which 
OCC failed to update in the policy as part of a prior rule filing. By 
streamlining the scenarios it presents in its Methodology Description, 
making minor edits, and correcting errors, OCC's proposed changes would 
help ensure that its Methodology Description document remains clear and 
effective so that the requirements under this document continue to be 
carried out properly. Similarly, the proposed changes to OCC's Clearing 
Fund Methodology Policy to reflect current practice will help ensure 
that document remains clear and effective.
    Based on the Commission's review of the record, and for the reasons 
described below, the changes described above are consistent Section 
17A(b)(3)(F) of the Exchange Act.\43\
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    \43\ 15 U.S.C. 78q-1(b)(3)(F).
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B. Consistency With Rule 17ad-22(e)(4) Under the Exchange Act

    Rule 17ad-22(e)(4) requires, in part, that a covered clearing 
agency establish, implement, maintain and enforce written policies and 
procedures reasonably designed to effectively identify, measure, 
monitor, and manage its credit exposures to participants and those 
arising from its payment, clearing, and settlement processes, including 
by (i) to the extent not already maintained pursuant to Rule 17ad-
22(e)(4)(i), maintaining additional financial resources at the minimum 
to enable it to cover a wide range of foreseeable stress scenarios that 
include, but are not limited to, the default of the participant family 
that would potentially cause the largest aggregate credit exposure for 
the covered clearing agency in extreme but plausible market 
conditions,\44\ and (ii) testing the sufficiency of its total financial 
resources available to meet the minimum financial resource requirements 
under Rules 17ad-22(e)(4)(i) through (iii) under the Exchange Act.\45\
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    \44\ 17 CFR 240.17ad-22(e)(4)(iii).
    \45\ 17 CFR 240.17ad-22(e)(4)(vi).
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    The Proposed Rule Change is consistent with Rule 17Ad-22(e)(4)(iii) 
because it clarifies the authority provided under OCC's rules to allow 
OCC to rely on more conservative stress scenarios when sizing its 
Clearing Fund. Allowing OCC, subject to internal governance, to rely on 
more conservative sizing scenarios increases the likelihood that OCC 
will foresee a wider range of stress scenarios and maintain sufficient 
financial resources to cover its exposures in such scenarios.
    The Proposed Rule Change is consistent with Rule 17Ad-22(e)(4)(vi) 
because it effectively broadens the scope of stress scenarios that OCC 
conducts to test the sufficiency its financial resources. As described 
above, OCC's Sufficiency Scenarios are designed to measure OCC's 
potential exposure to a Clearing Member Group's portfolios relative to 
OCC's resources so that OCC can determine whether to call for 
additional or different collateral. Expanding the scope of stress 
scenarios against which OCC monitors its financial resources would 
increase the likelihood that OCC maintains sufficient financial 
resources at all times. This Proposed Rule Change would expand the 
scope of stress scenarios by promoting six Informational Scenarios to 
Sufficiency Scenarios. This expansion could result in the collection of 
additional resources available for resolving a member default, which, 
in turn, would increase the likelihood that OCC maintains sufficient 
financial resources at all times. OCC also proposes to demote a set of 
existing Sufficiency Scenarios, but the data provided by OCC 
demonstrates that such demotion would not impact the financial 
resources OCC collects from members. Accordingly, the Proposed Rule 
Change is consistent with Rule 17ad-22(e)(4)(iii) and (vi) under the 
Exchange Act.\46\
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    \46\ 17 CFR 240.17ad-22(e)(4)(iii) and (vi).

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C. Consistency With Rule 17ad-22(e)(7) Under the Exchange Act

    Rule 17ad-22(e)(7)(vi) requires, in part, that a covered clearing 
agency establish, implement, maintain and enforce written policies and 
procedures reasonably designed to effectively measure, monitor, and 
manage the liquidity risk that arises in or is borne by the covered 
clearing agency, including measuring, monitoring, and managing its 
settlement and funding flows on an ongoing and timely basis, and its 
use of intraday liquidity by, at a minimum, determining the amount and 
regularly testing the sufficiency of the liquid resources held for 
purposes of meeting the minimum liquid resource requirement under Rule 
17ad-22(e)(7)(i) under the Exchange Act.\47\
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    \47\ 17 CFR 240.17ad-22(e)(7)(vi).
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    As discussed above in the context of credit stress testing, OCC has 
proposed changes to effectively broadens the scope of stress scenarios 
that it conducts to test the sufficiency its resources. Expanding the 
scope of stress scenarios against which OCC monitors its resources 
would allow OCC to test the sufficiency of its liquid resources under a 
wider range of stress scenarios. Also, as noted above, the proposed 
demotion of certain existing Sufficiency Scenarios would not impact the 
resources OCC collects from its members. The effective expansion of 
Sufficiency Scenarios would increase the likelihood that OCC maintains 
sufficient liquid resources at all times.
    Additionally, OCC has proposed changes to more accurately document 
its current practices both with regard to calibrating scenarios at 
least quarterly and meeting a Cover 1 standard for liquidity. The 
change with regard to calibration would not impact OCC's current 
practices, but would ensure a higher frequency of calibrations going 
forward than is required under the current Methodology Description. The 
change to a Cover 1 standard for liquidity is merely an error correct 
that improves the accuracy of OCC's rules.
    Accordingly, the Proposed Rule Change is consistent with Rule 17ad-
22(e)(7)(vi) under the Exchange Act.\48\
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    \48\ Id.
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IV. Conclusion

    On the basis of the foregoing, the Commission finds that the 
Proposed Rule Change is consistent with the requirements of the 
Exchange Act, and in particular, the requirements of Section 17A of the 
Exchange Act \49\ and rules 17ad-22(e)(4) and (e)(7) thereunder.\50\
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    \49\ In approving the Proposed Rule Change, the Commission has 
considered the proposed rules' impact on efficiency, competition, 
and capital formation. See 15 U.S.C. 78c(f).
    \50\ 17 CFR 240.17ad-22(e)(4) and 17 CFR 240.17ad-22(e)(7).
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    It is therefore ordered, pursuant to Section 19(b)(2) of the 
Exchange Act,\51\ that the Proposed Rule Change (SR-OCC-2025-009) be, 
and hereby is, approved.
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    \51\ 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(2).

    For the Commission, by the Division of Trading and Markets, 
pursuant to delegated authority.\52\
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    \52\ 17 CFR 200.30-3(a)(12).
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Sherry R. Haywood,
Assistant Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2025-14662 Filed 8-1-25; 8:45 am]
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