Listed products
Spotlight on auction in €114m Nasdaq clearing blow-up
Four-member auction may have turned 39% margin breach into huge default fund loss
JP exec calls for derivatives margin changes
Move follows 13 significant margin breaches in 2018, with one breaching by as much as 245%
Swaps data: OTC margin up; futures margin down
Swaps initial margin jumps 22% year-on-year, against surprise fall in futures margin, writes Amir Khwaja of Clarus FT
End-users fear loss of Mifir’s open-access promise
Exchange groups have 30-month exemption from access rules; listed derivatives users concerned it will become permanent
Month of higher vol spurs equity derivatives trading
Turmoil benefits total return futures, cross-asset arbitrage and dispersion
Volatility trap: how gamma roused a market monster
Rates market is exposed to some of the same factors that caused equity volatility to explode in February
Equities flow market-maker of the year: Citadel Securities
Risk Awards 2018: Chicago firm makes big hires and pushes into new derivatives products
Monthly swaps data review: ETD vs OTC margin totals
New disclosures from big CCPs show listed market consumes more margin than cleared swaps
Exchange innovation of the year: CME Group
Risk Awards 2017: Patience pays off with spectacular success of Ultra 10 Treasury futures
Mifid equivalence delay threatens Hong Kong dual-listed stocks
HSBC, Stan Chart and Prudential shares could face trading disruption in 2018
‘Wrong type of liquidity’ spells trouble for energy hedges
Cyclical lull conceals structural shift as liquidity becomes shorter-dated and more flighty
A referendum on clearing
Brexit margin calls show swaps CCPs are relying on funding strength of a handful of banks
LSE forced to rework Curve deal over merger risks
Banks demand LSE use its own cash while awaiting verdict on Deutsche Börse tie-up
Firms leaving the uncleared swaps market have nowhere to go
Buy side says cleared or listed products fail to meet their needs
Futurisation facing headwinds as cleared swaps evolve
Panellists at FIA conference say cleared OTC market is holding off futures challenge
Eurex margin flaws claimed in Swedish bank collapse case
CCP failed to properly capture vega, strike and wing risk, expert report claims
Structured products house of the year: SG CIB
Banks needed agility as well as scale to succeed in structured products in 2015
Basel Committee 'will move' to more sensitive leverage ratio
Regulators want to switch CEM for SA-CCR, conference told
EU members of US options CCP face $30bn capital hit
OCC fears approval will be held up by absence of SEC clearing rules
Swap futures face loss of capital edge
SA-CCR likely to treat swaps and swap futures equally, says Barclays' Kahn
Ice considers moving Brent contract to avoid EU margin hike
Ice says move is “not an outcome we want to see” but Emir margin could drive users away
CME has “no plans” to corner invoice spread market
Dealers still worried exchange has motive and means to create monopoly
Massad: CFTC will not challenge CME invoice spread rule
No progress on SLR changes, but ‘good chance’ of uncleared margin deadline extension
CME price limits caught out by Swiss franc surge
Exchange bins month-old rule after it led to huge spot-futures basis