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ETF options: the market’s latest credit hedge
Investors look to derivatives on fixed income exchange-traded funds to manage credit risk exposure
US MMFs invested more in riskier repo trades in December
Year-end surge also occurred in 2017 and 2019
The slow corporate embrace of CSAs
Risk.net research finds 28 of 50 large companies now have CSAs – but has the trend run its course?
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IBA, Refinitiv go live with regulated term Sonia rates
First deals linked to new benchmarks are likely to be in trade finance
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SLR relief here to stay?
A temporary adjustment to the calculation of the supplementary leverage ratio (SLR), which lowered capital requirements for top US banks, should be made permanent, executives at JP Morgan argue. In April 2020, the Federal Reserve allowed banks to carve out US Treasuries and excess reserves from the calculation of their total leverage, which acts as the denominator of the SLR. The adjustment was projected to cut $17 billion off top lenders’ binding Tier 1 capital requirements. The relief is due to expire on March 31.
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French regulator questions need for share trading equivalence
Esma’s reinterpretation ahead of Brexit reduces need for equivalence system, says AMF official
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