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‘Think like a farmer’: how Transtrend rode out the Hormuz shock
Talking Heads 2026: Transtrend’s Toni Budimir on shifting correlations, staying diversified – and knowing when to stop calculating
Dispersion trades weather AI selloff, for now
Gamma-weighted versions of the popular trade gained almost 7% as single-stock volatility surged
EU banks in India cut contingency costs after clearing deal
Esma MoU with two Indian regulators lifts threat to direct clearing for BNP, SocGen and Deutsche
Most dealers run central XVA desks, but remits vary
Risk Benchmarking: Many banks struggle to track XVA costs and share of derivatives compute
Bank Mandiri’s SFT exposures more than double in Q2
Surge in repo and derivative exposures adds pressure on leverage ratio
French yield surge sparks scramble to salvage range accruals
Dealers look to shift barriers and reference indexes after Tec10 notes breach upper barriers
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Rates
How hedge funds ‘hooked’ on carry fuelled rates mayhem in Europe
Short-volatility traders with ‘weak hands’ may have created a market that breaks easily under stress
Swap spread swings push US corporates to rethink locks
Volatile swap spreads have issuers weighing a shift from swap locks to costlier Treasury locks for pre-issuance hedges
Hedge funds shelved yen basis bet on US deal
Funds exited USD/JPY flatteners tied to Japan’s $550bn pledge and new funding may not revive the trade
Kalshi seeks CFTC approval for 10-year US Treasury perp
Extended review period for first-of-its-kind contract will run until November 29
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Bank Mandiri’s SFT exposures more than double in Q2
Surge in repo and derivative exposures adds pressure on leverage ratio
Risk Benchmarking
Most dealers run central XVA desks, but remits vary
Risk Benchmarking: Many banks struggle to track XVA costs and share of derivatives compute
Artificial intelligence
Regulators must think bigger to tackle tech risks, says Hong Kong SFC
Leung warns AI adoption and recent cyber scares show new threats require global co-operation
Why a hybrid approach works best for AI in credit risk modelling
AI helps models look beyond quarterly reports, but CRO says governance curtails full automation
Barclays built a system to spot AI agents that might go rogue
Research setup ‘reads the mind’ of LLM-based agents and flags if they’re about to do something risky
Podcast: Ariye Shater and Hariom Tatsat on AI explainability
Barclays quants discuss their method for monitoring AI with mechanistic interpretability
Rewriting the output floor: how EU reform options would split the banks
Making transitional relief permanent would offer the biggest cut by 2033, while market-risk changes would create winners and losers
Tokenisation
Beyond settlement: LSEG’s Dish eyes funding boom
Stablecoin-sceptic, blockchain-agnostic service touts new world of intraday repo and foreign exchange
Ripple builds ‘one-stop’ payments shop
Flurry of acquisitions marks latest step in digital payments specialist’s masterplan to crack trad-fi
BIS’s Hernández de Cos on AI, non-bank risk and tokenisation
General manager talks about how the BIS is navigating a complex global environment
HSBC’s Orion sees cash leg challenge to tokenised bonds
Tradeweb and others agree more work needed before atomic settlement is achieved
Burning ambition: will Europe join the US in setting fire to the rules?
As the US dismantles post-crisis regulations, some think Europe will follow in a bid to boost economic growth
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