Infrastructure
Thin-skinned: are CCPs skimping on capital cover?
Growth of default funds calls into question clearers’ skin in the game
Derivatives funding: smart solutions for a complex environment
Eurex’s cleared repo and GC Pooling offerings are helping market participants overcome challenges in the funding, financing and collateral markets
Real-time and historical market data: priorities, preferences and the cloud
This paper, commissioned by LSEG, focuses on firms’ current market data priorities, the asset classes and geographies they are looking to focus on in the near future, and the benefits they can expect by moving their historical market data storage and…
Taming the systemic risk Hydra: 10 years of mandatory clearing
Regulators, clearers and market participants reflect on a decade of the clearing requirement
KYC data and solutions 2023: market update and vendor landscape
This Chartis report updates previous research into the KYC solutions landscape and provides a concise overview of the main findings and insights
Revealed: where banks are (literally) warehousing their swaps
As derivatives notional grows, dealers experiment with novel storage solutions
Data to anchor a new age of risk management
The growth of artificial intelligence and real-time compliance drives new requirements in data and analytics
Data analytics set to fuel change in the oil market
Privileged data insight is no longer the sole preserve of the world’s oil conglomerates. Access to insightful analytics is providing a new competitive edge for smaller and mid-sized commercial and trading firms in the oil market, helping them navigate…
Data-driven execution: looking back to see forward
Reviewing favourable outcomes and attempting to replicate them is by no means a new concept across the capital markets. Portfolio managers, execution professionals and risk managers use this principle to drive their decisions, although it is really only…
Solving the data challenge: technical solutions for optimisation of risk management, capital and liquidity resources
Since the financial crisis that began in 2007–08, regulatory pressure on requirements around capital adequacy, liquidity, funding, balance sheet size and leverage has become increasingly intense. As a consequence, financial institutions need to manage…
Data and AI: addressing increasing regulation for smarter compliance
This webinar features leading compliance and risk management professionals and focuses on how firms can handle regulatory change management, fraud prevention, AML and other compliance needs through the use of an optimal data and AI foundation built for…
Big data challenges: unlocking opportunities for banks to rethink their data structures
Revisions to banks’ mandatory capital requirement regulations, to be implemented in a few jurisdictions in January 2023 and globally in 2024, will present these institutions with a massive challenge as the volumes of data they must manage and analyse…
Helping firms make the most informed business decisions
Stephane Rio, founder and CEO of Opensee, discusses the extent of the data challenges facing all capital markets firms
The need for share data as firms invest in large volumes of equities internationally
Russell Ironside, pricing and reference services propositions manager at Refinitiv, discusses what is driving the need for more data in the area of shareholding disclosure
Connected data for financial services
Unlocking hidden value in market and reference data across the organisation
Lessons from the past – The evolving importance of historical tick data (Part I)
A recent Risk.net webinar in association with Refinitiv examined the opportunities and challenges for using historical tick data in today’s volatile markets. Panellists outlined the variety of ways the industry is harnessing historical tick data, but…
Lessons from the past – Overcoming historical tick-data challenges with the cloud (Part II)
The panel at a recent Risk.net webinar in association with Refinitiv outlined some of these challenges, including the expense of data cleaning, maintenance and storage; access to relevant data; and dataset integration. They agreed that cloud-based…
Confidence in pricing data is essential in a distressed market
Jason Waight, head of regulatory affairs, Europe at MarketAxess, explores the key role of reliable data sources in offering a commercial advantage to traders during the March crisis
Switching CCP – How and why?
As uncertainty surrounding Brexit continues and the impacts of Covid-19-driven market volatility are analysed, it is essential for banks and their end-users to understand their clearing options, and how they can achieve greater capital and cross…
E-trading takes hold for FX swaps – sort of
Bulk of trades are being executed over screen, but bolder changes have stalled