BlackRock
BlackRock appoints Pierre Sarrau as chief risk officer
Current CRO Edward Fishwick will be head of research at BlackRock’s RQA group
Fed official dismisses de-dollarisation talk
Speakers at IIF conference believe dollar selloff is cyclical rather than a structural decline
BlackRock, BGI and the big quant pivot
How the world’s largest asset manager revived the fortunes of its struggling west coast unit
People: Nomura’s rates rebuild continues, DB USA’s new CEO, and more
Latest job changes across the industry
Europe’s Ucits funds: Made in the USA
Counterparty Radar: EU retail funds market is a prime example of Trump’s miscalculation on trade
Pimco’s $19 billion Sonia swaptions trade
Counterparty Radar: Bond giant springs up as largest player in space among US mutual fund managers, with Guggenheim shadowing its move
Vanguard is new kid on the CDS options block
Counterparty Radar: Passive behemoth held a quarter of reported notional among US retail funds in Q4 2024
Market whipsaw spurs calls to rethink buy-side stress-testing
Risk Live Boston: Morgan Stanley and BlackRock urge rethink of scenario assumptions and top-down factor models
Top 10 op risks: For change management, the cloud is its own weather front
As lenders move legacy banking to the cloud, the risks of getting it wrong are exponentially greater
BlackRock bucks trend in shrinking IRS market for Ucits
Counterparty Radar: Pimco boosts pay-fixed book by $27.5 billion in H1 2024
BlackRock tests ‘quantum cognition’ AI for high-yield bond picks
Study uses Qognitive machine learning model to find liquid substitutes for hard-to-trade securities
TD, Goldman make strides with Ucits in FX forwards trades
Counterparty Radar: JP Morgan AM notional crossed $100 billion threshold in first half of 2024
LCH expects to boost deliverable FX clearing with new adds
Onboarding of dealers and link-up with CLS could swell interbank deliverable FX clearing volumes
People: All shook up at the SEC, Krens succeeds Litvack at Isda, and more
Latest job changes across the industry
Pimco and Vanguard slash FX forwards trading with BNP Paribas
Counterparty Radar: French bank sees its notional with mutual funds halve
BlackRock on how modern portfolio theory is misunderstood
Standard asset allocation is likely sub-optimal in a changing world, say strategists
BlackRock preps managed futures ETF
Asset manager’s plans could open strategy to $400 billion-plus new asset pool
Investment house of the year: BlackRock
Risk Awards 2025: World’s largest investor is undergoing its biggest transformation in more than a decade
BlackRock exec pushes for FX swaps Clob
FX head Chaudhry says all-to-all venue could boost TCA, price discovery and spur algo trading
Knives out: court cases cleave apart creditor expectations
Diverging court rulings show pitfalls and potential of challenging controversial restructuring transactions
US MMF investments near $7trn amid short-term yield chasing
Surging inflows led some managers to turn to Fed’s RRP facility for risk-free cash allocation