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Regulators are planning changes to resolution rules after criticism that living wills were ignored in previous bank collapses
Hedge funds crowd into bullish Brazilian real trades
Funds snap up FX options betting on stronger real after a Bolsonaro win
Commodity and equity derivatives drive record liability gap at UK banks
Net derivatives balance narrows to lowest in a decade as liabilities rise faster than assets
People: CRO switches at Wells and Barclays, further SG shake-ups, and more
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Permanent FRTB reforms seen as vital for IMA adoption
Temporary relief granted in June has done little to encourage internal model use in Europe
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Hedge funds return to JGB flatteners after brutal stop-outs
Funds bet repatriation of assets by Japan’s pension funds will driver further long-end yield compression
Jackpot for JGB asset swaps after hedging rush
Multi-leg trade turned profitable as corporate cross-currency hedging flows helped push yen swap rates above JGB yields
Hedge funds reload UK rates bets after euro-led rout
Traders slowly returning to sterling market after ECB comments caused front-end and curve stop-outs
Hedge funds sit out Treasury market volatility
Flattening of yield curve prompts traders to scale back steepeners
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Commodity and equity derivatives drive record liability gap at UK banks
Net derivatives balance narrows to lowest in a decade as liabilities rise faster than assets
Risk Benchmarking
At bigger banks, enterprise risk owns scenario frameworks
Risk Benchmarking research finds ERM teams tasked with providing effective challenge on scenario construction across risk silos
Artificial intelligence
Asian dealers may be more exposed than US in AI selloff scenario
Prime brokers face regional counterparty risk from huge flows in leveraged ETFs, say risk managers
As LLMs spread, quants confront ‘lexical risk’
Users are finding the uncertainty in GenAI models is hard to measure
Agentic risk management could arrive ‘sooner than we think’
Risk Live: Models are capable, but banks lack platform and governance to safely run agentic systems
What happens when AI gets good at your risk management job?
Risk executive Alex Golbin asks how to build a valuable career in risk as agentic AI takes on more analysis
US rates surge sparks new wave of FX net investment hedging
Corporates pile into currency hedges to protect value of foreign assets and capture positive carry
Tokenisation
HSBC’s Orion sees cash leg challenge to tokenised bonds
Tradeweb and others agree more work needed before atomic settlement is achieved
Pioneers split over future of UK’s digitalised market
Tokenisation provider urges industry to stop waiting for magic to make digitally issued securities possible
Ex-Citi banker’s ‘perfect marriage’ with Franklin’s crypto unit
Investment giant throws weight behind Chris Perkins’ plan for investing in digital markets
Tokenisation: a load of old bull for London’s financial markets?
Focusing on tech in context of digital transformation risks repeating 1980s Taurus debacle
Regulators better prepared for next Credit Suisse, says SRB head
FSB strengthening guidance on international co-operation, but EU needs more mutual support
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