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Manuela Veloso on how banks can make their AI dreams reality
Former JP Morgan head of AI research says open-ended enquiry will unlock technology’s full potential
Lifeline keeps Europe’s hopes afloat for single-sided reporting
Despite Esma’s proposal for delegated reporting of trades, the industry may yet get its wish
Deutsche Bank bad loan charge hits record on CRE woes
Allowance against higher-risk property loans tops €1bn for the first time
EU’s plan to get competitive faces big legislative hurdles
Large and controversial legislative package may be too amorphous to deliver results quickly
Sterling interest rate options climb to highest on record
Greater options use hints at uncertainty over BoE rate trajectory
Perps extend the menu to tempt TradFi diners
Expiry-less futures are spreading from bitcoin into gold, equities and FX. Institutions are watching, not buying
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Tokenisation
Risk managers grapple with hazards and benefits of intraday repo
Expected increase in collateral velocity and re-use could also boost leverage and risk in markets
Repo tokens won’t be cleared. Or will they?
Uncertainty lingers over clearing status of tokenised Treasuries, with decision likely devolved to DTCC
Stablecoin consortia may be ‘interim’ step to solo bank issuance
Former Citi payments head and Ubyx founder says all G-Sibs will issue their own coins
Rapid-fire repo raises hopes of cheaper, faster trading
Tokenised Treasuries piloted by DTCC could squash settlement cycles and enable 24/7 repo
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Deutsche Bank bad loan charge hits record on CRE woes
Allowance against higher-risk property loans tops €1bn for the first time
Counterparty Radar
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How US dealers flipped the script in OTC trading
Dealer Rankings 2026: After years of creeping specialisation, buy-side filings show top US houses expanding across the board, and squeezing European rivals
Capital requirements
Europe’s banks can’t agree on how to fix the output floor
Some want market risk excluded, while others push for greater savings from credit modelling
EU banks shrug off mooted minimum reserves increase
Doubling of unremunerated reserves would curb Eurosystem losses, but banks doubt it will pass
ECB finds gaps in geopolitical stress-testing frameworks
Current methods fail to properly capture impact of geopolitical stress on liquidity
BoE’s crisis lending plan hits buffers
Scepticism greets regulator’s proposal to increase releasable leverage capital buffers
Big investors turn to off-exchange prediction markets
Millions of OTC event contracts are being traded monthly, with individual deals as big as $10 million
Equity derivatives
AI trained on fundamentals says which stocks will crash in sync
Neural net models correlations without a returns history and could improve stress testing
Options vanna positioning echoes 2024 vol spike, banks warn
Extreme negative position could exacerbate vol response in US equity selloff
Traders remain on alert as Kospi-KRW decoupling wanes
Negative equity-FX correlation normalises as vol subsides, but funds poised for future opportunities
ETF surge shows ‘worst-of’ autocalls have life in them yet
Assets in older structures have caught up with vol target versions that looked set to dominate
How quants are getting the most out of Claude
Agentic tools boost productivity by multiples, but using them takes skill
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