Helen Bartholomew
London bureau chief
Helen Bartholomew is London bureau chief for Risk.net.
She has written on a range of derivatives and markets topics including benchmark reform, margin rules, equity derivatives and structured products. Prior to joining Risk.net, she was derivatives editor for International Financing Review, part of Thomson Reuters, where she previously reported on debt and equity capital markets.
Helen holds a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from the University of Durham, UK.
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Brexit: listed derivatives face OTC mutation
No-deal would flip EU27 users into different regime for UK-listed trades
EU clients face axe from UK CCPs
But Esma’s Maijoor offers lifeline, calling for continued access for EU members
Paypals: Eurex members await their pay day
Profit-sharing scheme has created more competitive swaps landscape
Industry calls for 12-fold hike in margin threshold
Request to regulators would permanently exempt almost 1,000 firms from non-cleared margin rules
Buy side could be biggest voice in key margin decisions
Asset managers encouraged to join Simm’s daily polling mechanism – despite some dealers’ concerns
Brevan Howard is first non-bank caught by margin rules, sources say
Non-cleared exposures thought to exceed $1.5 trillion
LCH-Eurex basis falls 80% as insurers head to Frankfurt
Fixed rate available at Eurex has dropped from 1.35bp to 0.25bp in past two months
Clearing up Deutsche’s swaps ‘shift’
Reported move of euro business is not as straightforward – or as dramatic – as it seemed
Mattatia makes surprise move to MSCI
Former SG equity derivatives structurer was set to join BNP Paribas
Industry seeks smaller ‘big bang’ for margin
New study supports sixfold hike in 2020 compliance threshold to avoid “dormant” margin accounts
Brexit threatens some swaptions trades
Force majeure clauses could be triggered on physically settled contracts
Symphony bots march on Bloomberg
New chat system touted as sales and trading game-changer, as banks build hundreds of add-ons
The sharing economy comes to banking
A start-up some are calling the Airbnb of capital is bringing a Silicon Valley idea to Wall Street
EIB shrugs off term RFR worries with Sonia bond plan
Issuer to use daily compounded, backward-looking rate with time lag for sterling benchmark
Regulator calls for term Sonia as transition talk ramps up
Schooling Latter throws scepticism on Libor reform efforts
Isda faces member backlash on margin lobbying
Working groups were not consulted over Isda-funded paper that could threaten industry’s Simm
Duelling repack platforms find common ground
Standard documentation initiative mulls shared SPV model as founders seek to join rival
Local laws may save legacy swaps from Brexit migration
Exemptions from local authorisation may open a backdoor to servicing UK-EU contracts after Brexit
Brexit: banks consider four ways to move swaps en masse
Statutory business transfers in frame as bilateral novation may take too long
CFTC probed CDS market under last enforcement head
Goelman compares manufactured payouts to match-fixing, and says CFTC has jurisdiction to bring case
Mattatia heads to BNPP amid SG departures
Derivatives structurer to resurface at Paris rival; Quessette becomes latest to leave SG
Compression firms vie to ease Libor switch
Quantile and TriOptima launching services to tear up Libor swaps and replace with new rates
Swinburne: post-Brexit financial services deal could work
Isda AGM: Idea of comprehensive EU-UK deal immediately worries CFTC official