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Op risk data: Morgan Stanley, Capital One’s data breach double trouble
Also: Citi shells out $45m for misleading stock trading info; coding clangers cost Credit Suisse $9m. Data by ORX News
Product innovations push deal contingents beyond M&A
Banks entice new users with hedges related to IPOs and bankruptcy procedures
Banks rely on clients to police US Libor ban
Dealers say it’s “impossible” to verify end-user compliance with narrow Libor exceptions trade by trade
People moves: new Credit Suisse chair, and more
Latest job changes across the industry
Banks offer crypto clearing but, shhh, don’t tell
Top dealers clear crypto futures for select clients despite smorgasbord of risks
Starting salaries jump for top quant grads
Quant Guide 2022: Goldman’s move to pay postgrads more is pushing up incomes, says programme director
Shell-company registry might not halt US dirty money, say experts
Observers raise questions over verifying beneficial owner info on proposed FinCEN database
CFTC delays rewritten swaps reporting rules after industry plea
Firms still face multiple rounds of compliance to implement UPI and ISO standards
CCPs to review conversion blueprint ahead of SOFR switch
Rising rates vol expected to push US transition to the wire, but process likely to follow previous runs
US funds piled on index hedges ahead of stock selloff
Counterparty Radar: Filings show managers adding more than $5.5 billion of puts in Q3, setting new high
Foreign banks flocked to Treasuries and Fed in Q3
Claims rose at fastest annual pace since early pandemic amid inflation jitters
Autocalls in peril as Netflix breaches downside barriers
Options liquidity keeps hedging panic at bay as some investors double down on volatile tech stocks
All top US banks below Collins floor
None of the eight systemic banks in the country above the threshold for the first time since 2015
Quant Finance Master’s Guide 2022
Risk.net’s guide to the world’s leading quant master’s programmes, with the top 25 schools ranked
Top US banks released $18.5bn of credit reserves in 2021
JP Morgan reversed over $6bn of PCLs, the most of the group
Led by BofA, US banks doubled distributions in 2021
Stock buybacks and dividends hit $117.7 billion last year
Op risk data: Mouldy money makes big stink for NatWest
Also: Santander plays Santa; JPM in messaging mayhem; ‘Sterling Lads’ cost HSBC a couple of bricks. Data by ORX News
Bitcoin futures ETF loses 9% a year to fees and contango
Cost of rolling futures contracts from one month to another exacerbates ProShares ETF’s losses
Morgan Stanley curbs SA-CCR impact on core ratio
Impact of early implementation far below original estimates thanks to mitigatory action
Bank of America’s VAR drops 19% in Q4
Average one-day trading VAR falls to lowest point since Q1 2020
SA-CCR switch pushes Goldman below Collins floor
Early adoption at the end of 2021 adds $15 billion of RWAs
LSEG beefs up non-cleared ambitions with Quantile deal
Agreement to buy optimisation firm for £274m strengthens LCH’s FX foothold as SA-CCR bites
Wells Fargo RWAs drift apart
Standardised RWAs have increased for three consecutive quarters, putting pressure on the bank’s CET1 capital ratio
Princeton, Baruch and Berkeley top for quant master’s degrees
Eight of 10 leading schools for quantitative finance programmes are based in US, latest rankings show