The people who run the Exchange, explaining the parts of it that rarely get explained.
Perspectives is a working conversation, not a promotional one. Each episode takes a single piece of market infrastructure — a margin model, a vault accreditation, a settlement panel — and asks the person responsible for it to walk through how it was built and where it strains.
Episodes are recorded in the Exchange's operating offices and released monthly. Transcripts are filed alongside each episode in the member record.
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Newest first. Each entry lists the desk in conversation and the running time; episode audio and transcripts are distributed through the member record.
The Default Waterfall Nobody Wants to Use
A clearing house is judged on the day something fails. We walk through the Exchange's default waterfall clause by clause — margin, member contribution, house capital — and what each layer is actually sized for.
Vault Economics
Why accredited vault capacity is expensive to build, cheap to under-use, and the single hardest constraint on opening a new corridor.
What Members Actually Ask For
Three years of admission interviews, summarised. The requests that come up in every corridor, and the ones we have declined to build.
Assay, Trust, and the Cost of a Second Opinion
What happens when two accredited laboratories return different numbers on the same consignment, and how a published tolerance band changes the negotiation.
Building a Settlement Bank Panel from Zero
The Exchange started with one panel bank and no track record. On convertibility windows, intraday limits, and persuading a treasury desk to carry corridor risk.
Corridors Are Institutions, Not Routes
A corridor is a rulebook, a custody chain, a settlement path and a register of who may act. The road is the least interesting part of it.
Margin in a Market That Has Never Had It
Introducing initial and variation margin to operators who have always settled principal-to-principal — what broke, what held, and what we changed.
