Repo
SOFR futures volumes surge as overnight repo rates spike
Daily trading volume of one-month contracts climbs 156% between September 16-17
Watchdogs ask EC to delay repo haircut floors. Will it?
EBA says hedge funds will skirt the rules, but Basel and FSB want haircut minimums in place
US G-Sibs shun unsecured short-term funding
Trend towards borrowings secured by high-quality collateral accelerates
How collateral scarcity reshaped the US yield curve
QE and demand for high-quality liquid assets have suppressed short-term rates, argue IMF economists
Peripheral EU banks free encumbered assets
Ratio of encumbered assets to total assets at Greek banks falls to 23.9% from 31.6%
EU public funds buoy Italian lenders
European facilities cover almost 10% of Italian bank funding
Mifid redux? Esma insists on LEIs for repo collateral
Mifid-style ruling will bar firms from using securities without identifiers in financing transactions
Two US dealers grow appetite for counterparty risk
JP Morgan sees risk weight of portfolio climb to 41.5%
Esma proposal may limit short-selling
Reporting requirement would bar securities without LEIs from being used in financing transactions
EU banks relax credit terms for OTC trades – ECB
Price and non-price trade conditions likely to ease for most firms in Q3
Gaps emerge in US plan to regulate non-bank systemic risk
Former regulators say FSOC may struggle to measure systemic risk in repo, loan markets
Risk Technology Awards 2019: Making machines more helpful
Machine learning can be too efficient; now, vendors are looking for ways to make it more accurate. Clive Davidson looks at the stories behind this year’s Risk Technology Awards
Fed turns up heat on dollar repo dodge
New liquidity rules for foreign banks’ US branches may be hard to stop, but can be softened
2022 – A market risk odyssey
Though January’s final version of FRTB offered no great surprises to those who have followed the regulation since its inception, banks now have a greater idea of what is required of them. Bloomberg explores the importance for banks to have FRTB…
Risk and finance – Better together
Changing regulations and new accounting standards are creating enormous challenges for financial organisations. Thorsten Hein, principal product marketing manager, risk research and quantitative solutions at SAS, explores why, to successfully meet these…
Top CCPs’ liquidity pools hardly grow in Q1
LCH SA the only outlier as most clearing houses see cash, collateral and credit on hand shrink
Avoid floating rates on non-cleared repo – ICMA
€STR won’t be published until October, but its next-day publication will make settling complicated