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Credit Suisse and Commerz latest banks to ditch hold times
Mizuho also confirms zero last look add-on but MUFG’s policy unclear on the controversial FX practice
France floats U-turn on Mifid’s dark pool restrictions
Leaked doc shows UK competition threat weighs on minds of EU lawmakers over non-exchange trading
CME to reinforce term SOFR with swap inputs
Inclusion would leapfrog a 25% OTC liquidity threshold embedded in methodology
Curbs on hedging threaten to short-circuit Bulb sale
Insolvent energy supplier is barred from holding long-dated forwards – which could deter potential buyers
Private equity is finding ways to attract smaller investors
Platforms and funds of funds make it easier to get money out, but opacity and liquidity risk remain
OCC sees sharp drop in ransomware attacks on US banks
OpRisk North America: drop-off confounds expectations and mystifies regulators
Emir data may have exposed Archegos, but not in real time
Entity-level reports were limited to supervisors, leaving counterparty banks in the dark
Credit risk capital models hanging by a thread in the US
Industry insiders expect Fed to drop IRB and IMM when adopting Basel III, but market risk models may survive
Fed hiring more staff to examine cloud providers
OpRisk North America: regulator wants to put more “boots on the ground” at firms such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft
Asia moves: Senior hires at Barclays, Crédit Agricole and more
Latest job news from across the industry
LCH plans two-part US Libor swap conversion
CCP to ditch pre-emptive basis splitting in April and May switchover, but retains overlay swaps
Ruble turmoil prompts calls to fix NDF contracts
Some market participants want to see offshore fixings as an option in all standard documentation
JP Morgan appoints new head of derivatives clearing
Richardson promoted to top job as Rustad takes leave of absence
Boaz Weinstein picks Ukraine bonds as a tail-risk strategy
Saba Capital bought debt for as little as 20 cents on the dollar, anticipating explosive payoff
Lack of supply keeps short-end euro rates vol high
Hedge funds and corporates rush to hedge potential rises in euro interest rates – but sellers aren’t there, say traders
Ukraine crisis ‘made VM three times IM’ on CME commodities
Isda AGM: Margins spiked in April following rises in oil, gas and wheat prices triggered by Russia’s Ukraine invasion
CME chief’s arguments at FTX hearing raise eyebrows
Terry Duffy’s criticism of exchange’s direct clearing proposal revives debate over ‘skin in the game’
Podcast: Lipton on (un)stablecoins and FX market-making
Veteran quant has long warned about fundamental flaws in algorithmic stablecoins
As geopolitical risk spikes, a major index gets a revamp
Geovol risk gauge built by Nobel laureate Robert Engle to become Global Covol
Basel chair stands by tough capital rules for crypto assets
Isda AGM: Hernandez de Cos is unmoved by arguments that high risk weights will push banks out of crypto
LGIM blasts ‘dangerous’ netting of short positions on carbon emitters
Netting shorts on big polluters distracts investors from task of persuading firms to slow climate change
Netting law to push slew of Chinese clients into IM regime
Isda AGM: HSBC legal exec says internal approval process for netting opinion could buy more time to prepare
Crypto market-maker B2C2 weighs US swap dealer registration
Isda AGM: Move would see firm become second crypto trading outfit to obtain designation
JPM: EU corporate CVA exemption could split swaps liquidity
Isda AGM: Market may price in permanent lower capital charge if exemption retained in CRR III