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OTC trading platform of the year: Tradeweb
Asia Risk Awards 2021
Phase five margin queues spur calls for custody revamp
Custodians urged to update “antiquated technology” ahead of three-fold jump in phase six initial margin onboarding
Brainard: stablecoins ‘front and centre’ of regulatory focus
Contender for top Fed role also called for activation of countercyclical capital buffer
Bank-backed futures utility criticised as too ambitious
Osttra’s Joanna Davies urges industry to look for “quick wins”
House of the year, Hong Kong: Crédit Agricole
Asia Risk Awards 2021
Systemic US banks’ bail-in buffers rose in Q2
Morgan Stanley posts largest amount of headroom, while Citi, State Street and Wells Fargo trail behind
BNP hits top spot for FX options
Counterparty Radar: French bank ousts long-time leader Citi as biggest dealer for mutual funds
BSBY swap fallbacks too flimsy for BMR – FCA
Pressure piles on SOFR alternative as US, UK regulators axe their role in Isda replacement waterfall
Sonia/SOFR swaps jump ahead of ‘RFR First’ initiative
Cross-currency swaps increasingly seeing RFRs on both legs
Bank consortium seeks to cure post-trade data ills
Project led by Societe Generale uses privacy-enhancing technologies to tackle data management problems
Amundi, Axa urge boardroom pay cuts for climate laggards
Link remuneration to carbon-emission goals and companies will get serious, say large investors
SEC’s Gensler questions BSBY’s Iosco compliance
Bloomberg’s credit-sensitive Libor alternative draws more criticism as Iosco vows tougher scrutiny
Off-balance-sheet exposures at US systemic banks jump $42bn
JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs and Citi drove the overall increase in the second quarter
Level 3 assets at global systemic banks down 36% since 2014
Hard-to-value holdings down sharply over the past six years, but pandemic threw spanner in the works at some banks
Fund industry bristles at rush to re-write MMF rules
ICI questions regulators’ assumptions about the role MMFs played in Covid-19 liquidity crunch
Majority of US G-Sibs’ assets attract sub-100% risk-weighting
Risk Quantum analysis shows top US banks retrenched to lower-risk assets through the pandemic
Citi hits the Collins floor
Of the eight systemic banks in the US, Goldman Sachs remains the only one above the threshold
Overhyped green status is no longer a risk-free sales tool
Asset managers’ ESG claims will now be more closely scrutinised following DWS allegations
Iosco steps up scrutiny of credit-sensitive rates
Standard setter calls for rates to prove compliance through stress scenarios to retain hallmark
State Street to become world’s largest custodian
Brown Brothers Harriman Investor Services acquisition means Boston-based bank will leapfrog BNY Mellon and JP Morgan
RWA density at Goldman drops to seven-year low
Change to the distribution of the bank’s exposures by risk weighting likely contributed to the reduction
Jumbo trades propel BNPP, TD up forwards rankings
Counterparty Radar: In Q1 2021 data, outsiders are eating into US banks’ business with domestic funds
Renminbi splurge lifts BNPP, MSIM in Q1 options data
Counterparty Radar: Morgan Stanley IM is largest options user, following series of huge renminbi calls
Inflation hedges flat among US funds, while payers surge
Counterparty Radar: Total inflation-receiver positions inched up in Q1, while inflation-paying books leapt 44%