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A sharper focus on credit risk – Accessing Basel III SCRA data
The final Basel III framework will usher in a more nuanced approach to credit risk assessment. To address the challenges and benefit from the attendant opportunities, organisations need to be able to gather and manage the necessary data
Turning challenges into solutions
With margin requirements a potential drain on financial resources, delivering healthy returns while meeting regulatory obligations is paramount. To help participants optimise more of their risk, Varqa Abyaneh, chief product officer, Quantile, discusses…
Next generation technologies and the future of trading
This webinar explores how trading businesses can adapt to this new environment to improve margins and generate alpha, examining the future of trading technology, how companies will implement these new innovations and new skills that might be needed.
The future of private market asset investing in Asia‑Pacific
The findings from research into the future of private market asset investing in Asia-Pacific, conducted by Asia Risk in partnership with IHS Markit, shine a light on the reasons private asset allocations decreased across the majority of investors in the…
Real-time scenario analysis to prepare for the unknown
In today’s trading environment, fast, risk-enabled decision-making is increasingly considered a key competitive advantage. In this audiocast, Cboe Data and Access Solutions’ Jerry Hanweck explains how developments in real-time scenario analysis are…
Navigating UMR phases five and six
As awareness grows of the complexities ahead, a panel discusses best practice, their recent experiences and the challenges in-scope firms face as they prepare to meet UMR
Libor Risk – Quarterly report Q2 2021
The countdown to Libor's demise is officially under way. If a recent jump in Libor usage is anything to go by, regulators face a Herculean task prising dollar markets off the discredited rate by year-end. The mission is complicated by huge swathes of the…
Banks urged to take action as FRTB implementation nears
While the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) has been a long time in the making, and implementation guidance remains sparse in some jurisdictions, banks cannot afford further delays in deciding their market risk model approach and putting the…
Pricing services play critical role in securities valuations under SEC rule
Pricing services face scrutiny from investment managers as the US Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC's) new 2a-5 ‘fair value’ rule takes effect. Here, Refinitiv’s Joseph Hayek explains how pricing services should prepare for the surge in customer…
Margin matters – A smarter approach to margin risk
Michael Hollingsworth, head of financial risk analytics in the Data and Access Solutions division at Cboe Global Markets, reveals how trading firms are calculating margin in real time to manage pre- and post-trade risk and end-of-day clearing-house…
Green midstreamer powers ahead
Unique green capabilities and a ‘glocal’ strategy are behind the firm’s strong performance in this year’s Energy Risk Commodity Rankings, believes Mircea Caratas, chief commercial officer, ENGIE Global Energy Management
The new rules of market risk management
Amid 2020’s Covid-19-related market turmoil – with volatility and value-at-risk (VAR) measures soaring – some of the world’s largest investment banks took advantage of the extraordinary conditions to notch up record trading revenues. In a recent Risk.net…
Driving value from GRC
In today’s fast-changing business environment, an effective governance, risk and compliance (GRC) programme is increasingly seen as a foundation of agile decision-making. Michael Gibbs, chief executive officer of SureStep Systems Integration, discusses…
Options to mitigate the challenges of index cessation fallbacks and conversion
This has so far been a defining year for index cessation, Isda’s fallbacks protocol and central counterparty conversions. TriOptima insists that now is the time for firms to get their interest rate swap portfolios in order before year-end
Next-generation technologies and the future of trading
Register for our webinar convening groundbreakers, thought leaders and senior representatives from the buy and sell sides to discuss how trading businesses can adapt to this new environment to improve margins and generate alpha
Market fragmentation – The impacts of multiple rates and conventions
A forum of industry leaders discusses key developments in benchmark reform, and the strategic, operational and technological challenges involved in Libor transition
The Texas freeze and future calamities – How to build business resiliency in the face of disruption
Adverse weather in February stressed the Texas power grid to the point of failure, leaving millions without power and resulting in many firms filing for bankruptcy. While this event had some unique circumstances, extreme events are becoming more frequent
The art of effective market risk management during a period of transformation
This white paper takes a current view of market risk management, its growing complexity and how it can be transformative to institutions as the industry is widely recognising what are the right approaches to addressing evolving risks.
Sharpening the tools – Preparation for UMR phase five
LCH's Tom Archer and Kah Yang Chong discuss the suitability of the standard initial margin model (Simm) for phase five firms, how they can optimise portfolios to minimise margin costs and how the lessons learned from previous phases can help prepare firms
Changing derivatives strategies to address the new normal
The events of 2020 have propelled liquidity and collateral management to the top of the priority list for many buy-side organisations. A recent survey by Risk.net and Eurex explores how derivatives strategies are changing in response
Libor transition nears its end – Five topics you need to know
As the deadline to Libor cessation approaches, Liang Wu, executive director of financial engineering and head of cross-asset product management at Numerix, presents a series of market themes that warrant closer inspection
Achieving resiliency through robust risk management
Axpo executives discuss the biggest challenges for gas and power markets, their expectations for the future and the firm’s performance in the 2021 Energy Risk Commodity Rankings