
Luke Clancy
Editor-at-large, Emea
Luke Clancy is the London-based editor-at-large for Risk.net.
Over the past 20 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).
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Articles by Luke Clancy
UK and EU regulators diverging on double volume caps
Rule that limits anonymous equities trading to be reviewed in UK, but EC has bigger fish to fry
CalSTRS CIO: new derivatives needed to hedge ESG risks
Second-largest US pension fund has also reduced fixed income allocation to 12% as rates have fallen
Science friction: some tire of waiting for quantum’s leap
Use cases for new tech are piling up – from CVA to VAR. But so are the obstacles
Dutch banks seek quantum edge for stress tests
ABN, ING and Rabobank working together; US quantum developer seeks patent for CCAR
Barclays proposes new taxonomy for digital tokens
A common approach to classifying tokens is needed to prevent regulatory arbitrage, UK bank argues
Facebook’s libra could disrupt collateral markets – IMF paper
Collateral used to back ‘stablecoins’ such as libra will be unavailable for reuse
Moonshots shelved: banks spend on home-working tech
Dealers made success of remote working switch – now they’re investing in its future, and pausing grander ambitions
Ion forced to ditch Broadway rates business
Remedy satisfies UK competition watchdog – but “a big defeat” for acquisitive tech giant
Common domain model needs infrastructure push, says Barclays
Bank wants market infrastructures to drive adoption of Isda CDM
UK watchdog has competition concerns over Ion-Broadway deal
Trading tech giant has five days to address issues, or face months-long investigation
Buy-side firms reject EMS brokerage charges
Some users favour licence fee over per-trade charging – and have forced vendors to switch
SocGen’s digitised bond passes settlement test
Banque de France-backed deal pips private consortiums in dummy run for digital currency trades
FCMs feared systemic incident during March back-office meltdown
Trade breaks following Covid-19 spike in futures volumes required massive clean-up job, says BofA exec
Scrutiny and frictions follow EMS vendors into fixed income
Aggregators are facing resistance from venues and attracting the attention of regulators
Choppy markets revive quest for RFQ’s ‘magic number’
Deutsche argues for smaller, stronger panels; Citi offers better prices for 'full amount' trades
Simm may come with a side benefit – a common data standard
Buy-side firms using Acadiasoft for Simm calculations must adopt the ORE XML data format
Volatile FX markets reveal pitfalls of RFQ
Clients urged to mask trading intent; critics warn of subtle sell-side advantages
Ion rival TransFICC gets cash boost
HSBC, ING join £5.75m investment round, amid claims of shrinking tech choice
To model the real world, quants turn to synthetic data
Future financial models will be built using artificially generated data
Ion’s wrists slapped in probe of Broadway deal
Competition watchdog extends initial investigation after Ion failed to comply with call for info
Vol boosts rules-based trading services
More users – and more platforms – turn to auto-RFQs for smaller tickets
Sluggish back-office systems added to margin pressures
Systems supplied by FIS struggled to handle massive spike in March trading volumes