Emma Siponmaa
Senior reporter
Emma Siponmaa is a senior reporter on the Markets desk at Risk.net. She was previously a senior reporter at Law Business Research, covering banking, insurance and other financial services regulation. Before that, she was a Nordics reporter at MandateWire, part of FT Specialist.
She holds a master’s degree in legal studies from SOAS and a bachelor’s in sociology from Goldsmiths University.
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Asia investors turn to inverse ETFs for hedging
US-based Direxion eyes Asia listings, while CSOP expands product range to single names
Tribunal upholds spoofing decision despite no ‘smoking gun’
Decision shows trading patterns alone can be enough for UK regulators to demonstrate market manipulation
JP Morgan announces structuring team changes
New unified team to report to structuring head Rui Fernandes, and includes new roles for senior staff
EGB basis trades make electronic push
Bloomberg, MTS and Tradeweb add bond and futures combos after Eurex booking upgrade
Tidal rides retail boom to lead in single-stock options
Counterparty Radar: Volatility-selling ETF firm accounts for half of trading among US funds
Platforms expand portfolio trading to EGBs
Bloomberg and MTS to follow Tradeweb with extension of popular credit protocol
BNP Paribas eyes selective algo white label tie-ups
The French bank struck its first FX algo white-labelling partnership with Lloyds
Bank FX market-makers ramp up AI usage
Barclays applies tech to predictions, while HSBC and ING look at pricing accuracy
Tariff volatility pushes banks to tighten close-outs
Lawyers say dealers are looking to update playbooks for terminating derivatives trades
People: Balaÿ is new broom at CA CIB, Ungari swaps QIS roles at SG
Latest job changes across the industry
New FX swap matching platform aims to bridge voice and e-trading
FXswapX seeks to electronify “the last bastion of voice trading” in the interdealer market
Dealers bullish on Bloomberg chat interface for FX markets
Service expanded its API offering to integrate broker chats into banks’ engines for cash FX pricing late last year
For US Treasury algos, dealers get with the program
Four banks now offer execution algos on Bloomberg, with plans to go further, faster