| 02.04.2015 Other Voices: What is compression (and why should you care)? |
| This article was authored by Stephen Loosley, Catalyst Development Ltd, a financial regulations and technology advisor in London. Compression is a technique to reduce gross notional in your OTC book without materially affecting risk, allowing you to use fewer trades and less notional to express the same risk, at less cost. The term is commonly used to mean three different, but related thin |