Post-trade
The post-trade patch‑up: revamping processes in volatile times
A Risk.net Rapid Read survey report: how efficiency in post-trade services at financial firms influences risk management, and how it is expected to evolve
Growing use of ‘carte blanche’ keeps FCMs ‘awake at night’
Executing brokers want to speed up trade processing, but practice is deemed risky by clearers
FTX proposal could prompt wider clearing changes
FCMs say current clearing structure could end up adopting parts of crypto exchange’s novel approach
Is DLT post-trade a solution without a problem?
Sources question landmark projects' ability to use technology at scale as further delay besets ASX deployment
BlackRock calls for blockchain to fix futures processing snags
Asset manager wants industry to move faster in adopting “single source of truth” model
Platforms bring structured products to the masses
Simon, Luma and Halo fuel 80% rise in volume of structured investments in US
Banks turn to analytics playbook to take on FX platforms
Dealers aim to lure clients from high-fee multi-dealer platforms with improved investment analytics
Currency derivatives house of the year: UBS
Risk Awards 2022: T-Pricer platform enabled bank to gain technological edge
Futures standards body seen as first step to utility
FIA project could usher in new hub to connect trading parties and guard against derivatives logjams, experts say
Barclays looks to woo CCPs with CDM prototype
Plan to save billions in post-trade costs relies on the creation of central data utilities
Capitolis to acquire LMRKTS
Deal for multilateral compression provider latest in wave of post-trade tie-ups, as SA-CCR bites
BNP inks back-office clearing deal with FIS
Vendors jostle to offer collateral management services amid negative rates and shrinking returns for FCMs
Esma weighs delay to review of repo reporting rules
Expectations grow that a review of SFTR scheduled for April will be postponed due to Covid
Optimisation firms prep for SA-CCR boom
Flush with new cash, vendors ready rebalancing services ahead of risk-sensitive leverage framework
March’s clearing failures give new life to an old idea
Futures industry snubbed chance to build post-trade utility before. Now, it really needs one
OTC infrastructure service of the year: Capitalab
Risk Awards 2021: valiant effort to solve swaptions discounting problem wins praise from clients
CLS: can’t live with ’em, can’t live without ’em?
FX settlement giant not fast on its feet, say dealers and challengers, but hard to knock down
Toward reducing the operational risk of emerging technologies adoption in central counterparties through end-to-end testing
This paper discusses the software-testing challenges of traditional central counterparties as well as the risks, biases and problems related to new technologies. It also outlines a set of requirements for an end-to-end validation and verification…
Common domain model needs infrastructure push, says Barclays
Bank wants market infrastructures to drive adoption of Isda CDM
FCMs feared systemic incident during March back-office meltdown
Trade breaks following Covid-19 spike in futures volumes required massive clean-up job, says BofA exec
FX traders sound alarm on tagging ‘abuse’
Front running and tag refreshing concerns abound on semi-anonymous trading platforms
Industry adoption scenarios for authoritative data stores using the International Swaps and Derivatives Association Common Domain Model
In this paper the authors explore opportunities for the post-trade industry to standardize and simplify in order to significantly increase efficiency and reduce costs.
Initial margin – A regulatory bottleneck
With the recent announcement of an extended preparation period for those smaller entities needing to post initial margin under the uncleared margin rules, the new timetable could cause a bottleneck for firms busy repapering derivatives contracts linked…
Opening the buy-side liquidity pool
Vikash Rughani, business manager at triReduce and triBalance, outlines a new approach enabling buy- and sell-side participants to optimise the transition of legacy Libor over-the-counter swaps contracts to alternative reference rates