Celeste Tamers
Celeste is a London-based reporter on the investing desk at Risk.net. She earned a bachelor’s in economics and French from the University of Miami in 2019 and a master’s in international political economy from the London School of Economics in 2022. She completed her master’s dissertation on the implementation of bitcoin as legal tender in El Salvador.
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Articles by Celeste Tamers
For a growing number of banks, synthetics are the real deal
More lenders want to use SRTs to offload credit risk, but old hands say they have a long road ahead
People: Isda taps four new directors, O’Callaghan joins CA, Berlinski quits Goldman, and more
Latest job changes across the industry
Hedge funds must race the clock to check their dealer-rule status
Working out whether a firm is caught by SEC registration requirement could take months
Risk transfer and the shift from camaraderie to competition
The risk transfer market could be moving into a more competitive, more transactional and, some fear, riskier cycle
The race to build hyper-personalised investing
Direct indexing is taking off, but how far can it scale?
EU reporting regime a ‘hurdle’ for risk transfer deals, say investors
Onerous disclosure templates could deter US banks from marketing synthetic securitisations to European buyers
Beating the drum on cyber risk: the battle for boardroom attention
Delays patching financial sector vulnerabilities highlight the need for more internal clout for cyber chiefs
Hedge funds find plenty to dislike in SEC’s dealer-rule rewrite
‘Nobody knows’ for certain which investing strategies might lead to firms being forced to register as dealers
Allen & Overy adds to CLO team with new hires
Firm poaches five lawyers from Milbank as it expands structured credit team
Hot topic: SEC climate disclosure rule divides industry
Proposal likely to flounder on First Amendment concerns, lawyers believe
Bond funds made losing derivatives bets as rates climbed
Some managers’ use of interest rate derivatives looks like ill-timed speculation, study finds
The unknown risk on the flip side of the basis trade
US mutual funds have amassed record notionals in Treasury futures that in some cases exceed their AUM
SEC expected to protect CRT in conflicts of interest rule
Decision could come as early as today; high hopes for credit risk transfer exemption
SEC to delay US Treasury clearing mandate, dealer rule
A final vote on proposed US Treasury market reforms is now expected in early 2024
People: Estrada, Horne out in Credit Suisse rout, Belsher to Barclays, and more
Latest job changes across the industry
Investors cheer Fed guidance on bank credit risk transfers
Institutions say clarification of regulations could jump-start US market
Could excessive regulation make bank stocks uninvestable?
JP Morgan's EMEA CFO says capital requirements will mean banks lose business to non-banks
Court showdown looms for SEC private adviser rules
Legal victory for the regulator would establish new powers of prohibition, critics claim
‘Restricted lists’ on private-equity backed loans irk investors
Privately owned companies are limiting who can buy their debt, hampering liquidity
How Bloomberg got liquidity seekers to trust its machine learning models
Recent liquidity squeezes have proved the worth of advanced models, argues the tech giant. Now the task is to explain their inner workings to machine learning sceptics
Iosco warns of leveraged loan ‘vulnerabilities’
As recovery rates plummet, report calls for clearer covenants and more transparency on addbacks
SEC rewrite of criteria for investor ‘group’ alarms buy-siders
Hedge funds fear it will freeze out activists and have chilling effect on everyday discussions
‘The nature of stress propagation has changed’
Leverage begets leverage, says BIS research chief Hyun Song Shin
Buy-siders cheer SEC climbdown on loans
Agency stays silent in court case considering whether syndicated loans are securities