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Luke Clancy
Editor-at-large, Emea
Luke Clancy is the London-based editor-at-large for Risk.net.
Over the past 20 years spent in financial journalism, his previous positions have included: supplements editor, Risk magazine; editor of Hedge Funds Review, ETF Risk and Custody Risk (all formerly published by Incisive Media (now Infopro Digital)); senior investment writer, Investment Week (published by Incisive Media); deputy editor, Global Investor (Euromoney); managing editor, Engaged Investor and Pensions Insight (Newsquest Specialist Media); editor, World Mining Stocks (Aspermont UK); editor, Global Pensions and deputy editor, Professional Pensions (MSM International); online editor, Private Wealth Advisor and Offshore Red (Camden Publishing).
Luke was the 2023 Headline Money investment journalist of the year (B2B), and has been journalist of the year in four categories at the State Street Institutional Press Awards (regulation, 2023; investment, 2022; active investment, 2019; data & innovation, 2016). In 2022, Luke won Infopro Digital’s ‘feature/research article of the year’ award.
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Articles by Luke Clancy
Margin or membership? Regulators react to Nasdaq default
Six supervisors – from Bafin to the MAS – downplay idea of mandatory increase in futures MPOR
A threat to the Ion throne?
Banks need connections to e-trading venues; they don’t want the other services that come with them
BIS slams Nasdaq Clearing for risk management failures
Clearing member says it is giving notice to quit bourse, citing concerns over concentration of risk on venue
UK pension funds may have to clear, post-Brexit
Delays to Emir review raise fears that UK schemes may lose exemption
Banks demand greater scrutiny of CCP margin add-ons
Nasdaq Clearing blow-up prompts questions over CCPs’ methods of applying top-ups to concentrated positions
After Nasdaq, cracks appear in foundation of clearing
Default fund loss triggers debate on risk sharing, auction rules and ‘skin in the game’ at CCPs
EU’s further intragroup clearing relief: banks want more
Esma proposes to extend exemptions from clearing obligation but industry wants permanent solution
Hackathon finds pre-trade gold in Isda’s post-trade project
Dealers’ derivatives trade processing costs could be cut by at least $3 billion per year
Lawyers blast Basel on funding of STM swaps
'Daft' guidance would see settled-to-market derivatives caught by NSFR and LCR liquidity ratios
Improved credit loss estimates proposed for IFRS 9
New smoothing technique claims to overcome flaws in risk rating scales
Nasdaq slow to share defaulter info with peer CCPs
“Why didn’t you tell us earlier?” other clearers want to know
Spotlight on auction in €114m Nasdaq clearing blow-up
Four-member auction may have turned 39% margin breach into huge default fund loss
Brexit deal talk ‘too late’ for departing brokers
Contingency plans are past point of no return, say venues
New statistical approach proposed to tackle internal fraud
Tests improve on methods to identify anomalous data created by fraudsters
Quants tout improved expected shortfall backtest
Measure aims to provide better gauge of VAR violations
Kyte follows broker herd to Europe as Brexit looms
OTF provider lines up contingency plan to transfer London business to Paris entity
New credit risk modelling approach touted to reduce CCAR bias
Academic aims to address gaps in existing LGD forecast method with two-equation fix
Risktech start-ups: survival of the fittest?
A new breed of vendors could change the face of risk management, if they can hang around long enough
Risktech start-ups struggle to clinch big-bank contracts
Light on cash, risk management fintechs face an extended gauntlet most won’t survive
CLS seeking legal fix for Brexit settlement threat
Market infrastructure firm wants EU27 to protect trades in insolvency by tweaking local laws
Paper calls for action on payment ‘free-riding’ in Colombia
Country’s financial corporations most likely to prefer to rely on others’ liquidity to fund payments
Quants tout exposure-based approach to op risk modelling
Ebor especially suited to modelling loss events such as legal claims, say proponents
Banks fear loss of Emir intragroup exemptions
Firms would have to clear or margin transactions with affiliates in non-equivalent jurisdictions
EU prime brokers hit by new rules on collateral reuse
Draft AIF and Ucits regulation would oblige more stringent record-keeping along custody chain