Derivatives
SA-CCR’s sacrifice: who stands to lose from new capital rules
Risk.net research shows the potential for dealers to be left at a disadvantage to their foreign rivals
Sterling interest rate ETDs plummet 28% in Q2
Investors cut open interest in futures and options contracts as crises piled up
Quant house of the year: Crédit Agricole CIB
Asia Risk Awards 2022
Credit derivatives house of the year: Credit Suisse
Asia Risk Awards 2022
Derivatives law firm of the year: Linklaters
Asia Risk Awards 2022
RMB house of the year: Standard Chartered
Asia Risk Awards 2022
Derivatives house of the year, Asia ex-Japan: Societe Generale
Asia Risk Awards 2022
Interest rate derivatives house of the year: Standard Chartered
Asia Risk Awards 2022
Derivatives exchange of the year: SGX
Asia Risk Awards 2022
Virtus, FT boosted sold single-stock calls amid Q2 contraction
Counterparty Radar: US mutual fund managers cut $4.3 billion in individual equity options
Bailed-out Uniper suffered €14bn derivatives markdown in H1
Company cut value of gas forwards contracts due to risk of reduced deliveries from Russia
House of the year, China: CICC
Asia Risk Awards 2022
Automatic implicit function theorem
New technique can improve use of adjoint algorithmic differentiation in calibration problems
Nomura’s swaptions volume jumps in Q2 on Pimco trades
Counterparty Radar: Japanese bank triples size of US mutual funds book despite market contraction
Lag in the SOFR-linked non-linear derivatives market: three barriers to transition
Risk.net explores three themes in SOFR non-linear derivatives discussed by experts in a webinar sponsored by Numerix
European pension funds must start clearing next year – EC
Exemption preventing pension funds from mandatory clearing will come to an end permanently in June 2023
HSBC claims top FX forwards spot as US banks fall back
Counterparty Radar: Morgan Stanley slips for first time since Q2 2021 amid wider volume decline
Bypassing consent may aid CCP porting – report
CPMI-Iosco report says clearing houses cannot reasonably accommodate client preference; brokers favour rule book harmony
XVAs boost Helaba trading income but inflate hedging costs
Expense from non-trading hedges reaches highest since at least 2016
EU Parliament creates multiverse of SA-CCR outcomes
Some MEPs want to ease rules further than EC draft; others want return to undiluted Basel text
Credit checks, what credit checks? How crypto lending ate itself
Collapse of hedge fund Three Arrows Capital exposes “sloppy and irresponsible” credit standards among crypto lenders
Optimal exercise of callable bonds
Citi quants and structurers present a term-structure model for callable bonds' work
How Citi is handling topsy-turvy rates markets
Talking Heads 2022: Rate hikes and inflation have forced a rethink of the US bank’s hedging strategies
Time to shine: corporate FX’s surprise glow-up
Corporate FX enjoys its time in the sun as currency headwinds spark corporate hedging needs