Asset management
Buy-side physical FX clearing at LCH faces scepticism
Lack of clearing mandate and settlement wrangles mean demand for putative service remains weak
CanDeal ideal: could Canada make a sea-change in e-trading?
E-trading firm aims to capture all Canada’s electronic fixed income trade, requiring a culture shift
First P2P trade completed on Siege FX
Dark pool aims to match algo orders among its 30 buy-side clients
Covid-19 prompts buy-side rethink on stress tests and risk integration
FactSet explores why asset managers and owners are deploying novel bank-quality modelling and alternative datasets as they take aim at risk-informed portfolio management
UK snuffs out hopes of end to midpoint trading ban
Financial Conduct Authority resists calls to diverge from EU’s tick size regime
BlackRock: fix commercial paper before MMF meddling
Iosco official agrees that CP market needs to be considered alongside MMF reform
People moves: new CRO at LCH, changes at Natixis investment bank, and more
Latest job changes across the industry
Credit curves – Crucial in a crisis
The peak of the Covid-19 crisis in March 2020 underlined the need for superior data; when the tide goes out, the shortcomings of some datasets are cruelly exposed. Banks and asset managers will need to have confidence in the data fuelling their models…
Nordea CRO – a ‘controls freak’ meets Covid
Flexible checks and balances at bank's asset management arm kept risks within tolerance
Asia moves: Allianz adds two to China, Allen & Overy appoints new partner, and more
Latest job news across the industry
Risk Awards 2021: the winners
Final winners announced: Citi wins derivatives house, lifetime award for Ken Griffin
European funds fret over merits and risks of ethical labels
Managers unsure whether to “aspire to” or “run away” from new ESG classifications for funds
Libor transition – What is the endgame?
No-one expected the transition away from Libor to be easy. At the outset, some doubted whether the transition was even possible. However, with less than a year left before the expected cessation of Libor as a regulated benchmark, the transition certainly…
Trading heads call for reform of double volume caps
Asset managers endorse UK move on caps and back changes to EU’s unloved share trading restrictions
Markets search for FX factor as rates fall flat
Traders signal shift to currency strategies, but is it passing fad or permanent fixture?
Margin rules snare FX options users
US banks forced to post margin on ‘naked’ trades, with buy-side firms soon to follow
Diginex chief on taming the Wild East of cryptocurrencies
Asia Risk 25: Singapore-based digital exchange wants to bring respectability – and regulation – to the sector
People news: Yarian leaves HSBC, Goldman’s Lemkau joins MSD Partners, and more
Latest job changes across the industry
Time for the next-generation investment book of record – Eidos
Calypso Technologies’ end-to-end Ibor, decision and order support (Eidos) is the only effective and efficient way to bring together suppliers and consumers of enterprise investment data
Esma warns of UK-sized hole in Europe’s fund leverage radar
Executive at hedge fund AQR also urges reform of EU leverage measures to better assess risk
Model misfires raise questions over training data
Quants wrestle with how far into the past their machine learning models should peer
Thinking the unthinkable – Staying ahead of the crisis curve
Industry leaders discuss the increased value of stress-testing in a world rocked by its second financial crisis in 12 years, the likely emergence of non-financial risks, and how financial institutions can establish efficient and effective stress-testing…
What buy-side risk professionals can learn from the Covid‑19 crisis
The lessons learned from the pandemic so far, and how risk professionals are continuing to manage risks as the Covid-19 situation remains untamed.
Fulcrum hangs ESG designs on honing hard numbers
ESG risks will become part of investment and risk management processes across all funds at the firm