The Clearing House needs to provide robust and prudent risk management in order to meet its overriding objective: to provide Clearing Members with a central counterparty of the highest quality and to safeguard the interests of the company's shareholders and contributors to its Clearing Funds.
In order to guarantee the net positions of Clearing Members and to be able to manage the risk of a default, LCH.Clearnet SA requires its members the deposit of an initial margin.