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Dealers split between counterparty credit risk and market risk frameworks for repack RWAs
How US shutdown set off long-awaited basis bet
Hedge funds dust off a years-in-the-making relative value trade to profit from fallback mismatch
Passive investing and Big Tech: an ill-fated match
Tracker funds are choking out active managers, leading to hyped valuations for a dangerously small number of equities
Bridging credit transitions and spread dynamics
A fast-to-calibrate model to simulate a credit rating transition matrix is presented
Concentrated pullback drags mid-tier EU clearing rates to seven-year low
Few large European dealers drove clearing rates down, while US and UK banks increased reliance on CCPs
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EC’s closing auction plan faces cool reception from markets
Participants say proposal for multiple EU equity closing auctions would split price formation
Brokers must shift HFT servers after China colocation ban
New exchange guidance drives rush for “proximity colo” in nearby data centres
MTS eyes 2027 launch for dealer-to-client swaps trading
Plans for US Sef licence could address missing piece in defunct WeMatch swaps tie-up
Banks hope new axe platform will cut bond trading costs
Dealer-backed TP Icap venture aims to disrupt dominant trio of Bloomberg, MarketAxess and Tradeweb
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Concentrated pullback drags mid-tier EU clearing rates to seven-year low
Few large European dealers drove clearing rates down, while US and UK banks increased reliance on CCPs
Risk Benchmarking
Many banks see obstacles to options-based IRRBB hedging
Liquidity, accounting treatment and culture seen as impediments to wider use of swaptions, caps and floors
Bank regulation
Fed fractures post-SVB consensus on emergency liquidity
New supervisory principles support FHLB funding over discount window preparedness
Fed pivots to material risk – but what is it, exactly?
Top US bank regulator will prioritise risks that matter most, but they could prove hard to pinpoint
Why UPIs could spell goodbye for OTC-Isins
Critics warn UK will miss opportunity to simplify transaction reporting if it spurns UPI
Hopes rise for EU re-entry to UK swaps market
EC says discussions on draft decision softening derivatives trading obligation are ‘advanced’
Banks split over AI risk management
Model teams hold the reins, but some argue AI is an enterprise risk
Investing
Calamos brings popular US autocall ETF to Europe
Dublin filing points to Q1 launch for Calamos Autocallable Income Ucits ETF
Crisis-era CDO protection keeps on giving for Athene
Apollo-owned insurer still sees payments from sold CDS protection on a 2006 synthetic resecuritisation
Will lifer exodus kill Taiwan’s NDF market?
Traders split over whether insurers’ retreat from FX hedging is help or hindrance
FSB chief defends global non-bank regulation drive
Schindler slams ‘misconception’ that regulators intend to impose standardised bank-like rules
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