Luke Clancy
Editor-at-large, Emea
Luke Clancy is the London-based editor-at-large for Risk.net.
Over the past 25 years spent in financial journalism, his previous positions have included: supplements editor, Risk magazine; editor of Hedge Funds Review, ETF Risk and Custody Risk (all formerly published by Incisive Media (now Infopro Digital)); senior investment writer, Investment Week (published by Incisive Media); deputy editor, Global Investor (Euromoney); managing editor, Engaged Investor and Pensions Insight (Newsquest Specialist Media); editor, World Mining Stocks (Aspermont UK); editor, Global Pensions and deputy editor, Professional Pensions (MSM International); online editor, Private Wealth Advisor and Offshore Red (Camden Publishing).
Luke was the 2023 Headline Money investment journalist of the year (B2B), and has been journalist of the year in four categories at the State Street Institutional Press Awards (regulation, 2023; investment, 2022; active investment, 2019; data & innovation, 2016). In 2022 and 2025, Luke won Infopro Digital’s ‘feature/research article of the year’ award.
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Articles by Luke Clancy
Row breaks out over cause of FX settlement fails
One European bank blames T+1 for a 50% jump in FX fails, but industry groups dispute the claims
UBS and the legal labyrinth of Credit Suisse’s AT1 debt
Court cancellation of Finma’s 2023 writedown could leave Swiss banking giant on the hook for billions in liabilities – or not
Credit Suisse AT1 ruling may only benefit a third of bondholders
Swiss law may mean only bondholders who appealed writedown get compensation, if there is any
Swaps or futures? Clearers grapple with CME’s event contracts
New prediction contracts straddle the line between futures and swaps, Risk.net understands
CME mystery FCM’s purpose revealed
F&O Financial revealed as non-clearing broker for new event contracts venture with FanDuel
Is 2027 the new 24-hour trading target?
Slew of technical issues and dearth of SEC staff compound exchanges’ reluctance for round-the-clock equity trading
How some banks aced the EBA stress test
Four banks actually increased their capital ratios, while US subsidiaries were hit worst
Regulators urged to keep specials out of repo haircut debate
Industry experts say negative haircuts on scarcer collateral shouldn’t be seen as alarming
FCMs report client queries after Marex short-seller allegations
Chief executive rebutted Ningi Research charges of opaque accounting on quarterly results call
Is the Netherlands the EU’s main source of counterparty risk?
Experts surprised by results of exploratory scenario in 2025 ECB stress-test
Academic warns of systemic risk from AI-powered trading
Strategies generated by LLMs exhibit “very strange, correlated trading behaviour”, says Lopez Lira
Why margin transparency is always somebody else’s problem
As Esma pushes for clearing clients to receive better information, no-one wants to provide it