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Franklin Templeton affiliates make inflation play
Counterparty Radar: Western AM, Legg Mason lead way as US funds regain interest in inflation swaps
EC ignores pleas to extend clearing consultation deadline
Despite industry appeals for more time on EU-wide clearing consultation, EC refuses an extension
Legacy Libor swaptions face day of reckoning
Holders of physically settled swaptions in sterling and yen must switch to new risk-free rates, but it’s not simple
Market halts clearing shift to Eurex ahead of EU consultation
Participants hit ‘pause’ after proposed three-year equivalence extension for UK clearing houses
Liquidity risk rose at most CCPs in Q3
JSCC, CME, Ice and Eurex among those that revised their VM estimates
US dollar Libor transition: a new countdown in motion
With almost all Libor settings discontinued at the end of 2021, Philip Whitehurst, head of service development, rates at LCH, addresses what’s ahead for the final US dollar Libor transition to risk-free rates, what has and hasn’t been achieved so far,…
CCPs to review conversion blueprint ahead of SOFR switch
Rising rates vol expected to push US transition to the wire, but process likely to follow previous runs
LSEG beefs up non-cleared ambitions with Quantile deal
Agreement to buy optimisation firm for £274m strengthens LCH’s FX foothold as SA-CCR bites
Looking ahead to the post-Libor landscape
Libor’s days are coming to an end, so what does the future hold? A Risk.net expert panel discusses the original dream of a multi-benchmark world, and whether it is still alive
At LCH, required IM rose over Q3
Required minimum demanded of clients increased at ForexClear, RepoClear and EquityClear, but fell at SwapClear
Review of 2021: Default, revolt, reform
Archegos, GameStop, the last days of Libor – markets just about coped in a bleak and disorderly year
Interest rate swap activity surges ahead of Fed tightening
Counterparty Radar: Managers react to fastest rise in inflation in three decades
CCPs unlikely to be wiped out by op losses, research suggests
Former LCH risk chief says sharing loss data would help CCPs avoid risk of holding too little capital, or too much
US mutual funds paused inflation bets in Q3
Counterparty Radar: Uncertainty over inflation appears to have dampened trading activity
McLaughlin departs London Stock Exchange Group
Former CRO and head of financial risk left the group in October
Clearing of legacy Libor swaps
Phillip Whitehurst, LCH, discusses the most disruptive aspects of all the conversions of non-US dollar Libor trades that will have happened by the end of the year, how LCH is dealing with legacy swaptions that settle into cleared swaps and how this…
CCPs’ successful Libor switch raises hopes for sterling move
Optimism follows hitch-free conversion of cleared yen, Swiss franc and euro Libor swaps to RFRs
Libor Telethon: looking ahead
In this Libor countdown clinic, a panel of experts explores the future landscape in a post-Libor world
Libor Telethon: interviews with Tom Wipf and Elisabeth Kirby
This Libor countdown clinic features interviews with Tom Wipf, vice-chairman of institutional securities at Morgan Stanley and chair of the Alternative Reference Rates Committee, and Elisabeth Kirby, managing director and head of market structure at…
Libor Telethon: leaving Libor behind and clearing legacy Libor swaps
This Libor countdown clinic explores the impacts of moving on from Libor and how to clear legacy Libor swaps, and features an interview with Phillip Whitehurst, head of service development, rates, at LCH
Libor Telethon: interview and Q&A
In this Libor countdown clinic, an interview with Edwin Schooling-Latter, director of markets and wholesale policy at the Financial Conduct Authority is followed by a Q&A with Nicolas Cerrajero, Irina Ursachi and Nicolas Millot from audit, tax and…
LCH to clear BSBY swaps from November 29
Addition of much-maligned benchmark follows methodology enhancements and jump in SOFR trading
SOR liquidity drought complicates SGD benchmark shift
Asia Risk Congress: SMBC exec says exiting SOR trades is becoming harder as Sora liquidity surges
US megabanks lead push for agency clearing in Europe
Clearing through agency model would cut US lenders’ G-Sib capital surcharges