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‘Improving’ Mifid post-trade transparency splits markets
Mooted changes to Europe’s transparency regime are dividing markets – largely along functional lines
Oil funds want to reduce risk. Will investors let them?
Despite posting big losses, funds that track front-month contracts remain popular with investors
Synthetics sweetener teases European banks
As structural woes resolve, regulators remain split on preferential capital treatment for STS deals
How the Fed’s Covid stress test got stuck in the middle
Experts fear CCAR add-on has neither informed investors nor guided capital management
The scientists probing the human mind for an investing edge
Recent advances in behavioural finance could give rise to new quant models and strategies
Bruised, not broken: execs say Libor switch on track despite Covid
Compressed timeline for transition may leave smaller firms struggling to meet end-2021 deadline
Risk Technology Awards 2020 – Coping with Covid uncertainty
Scenarios scrapped, rules revised and holes plugged – how the winners of the Risk Technology Awards 2020 are adjusting to the Covid‑19 pandemic
Conduct risks stalk banks in Libor transition
As replacement rate concerns become more pressing, firms fear Libor lawsuits and regulatory wrath
Investors at the gates: MMF reforms fail the Covid test
After MMF rescues return, regulators urged to rethink rules on gates and sponsor support
Rise of ethical swaps brings hedging questions
Banks ponder how to offset risks of ESG derivatives – or whether hedging is even desirable
Credit problem: SOFR faces uphill struggle in loan market
Furnishing Libor’s replacement with a credit-sensitive spread is proving to be a Sisyphean task
China bond buyers tiptoe through credit analysis minefield
State backing for domestic companies is hard to gauge, as new investors are discovering
Clearing banks feel pinch as rates turn negative
Negative returns on dollar deposits at Eurex, Ice and LCH spur talk of business model change
FX traders sound alarm on tagging ‘abuse’
Front running and tag refreshing concerns abound on semi-anonymous trading platforms
Covid scenarios: finding the worst worst-case
As pandemic trashes historical data, a Risk.net tie-up with Ron Dembo’s new outfit tests promise of polling
Scrutiny and frictions follow EMS vendors into fixed income
Aggregators are facing resistance from venues and attracting the attention of regulators
Crisis exposes flaws in US financial stability regime
Former Fed chair Yellen calls for reform after failure to curb corporate leverage ahead of Covid-19
BLTs and glitchy Wi-Fi: lockdown life for FX execs
With traders transacting trillions from their living rooms, currency markets are adapting to new normal
Count them in? Big US banks mull PCAF carbon standard
BofA, Citi and Wells Fargo looking to adopt emissions standard popular with EU lenders
Structured products are lost in translation post-Libor
Benchmark shift would “fundamentally transform” popular rates structures, users fear
Rewards for failure: the ECB’s topsy-turvy market risk relief
Eurozone banks with better models are least able to offset Covid-driven rise in backtesting multiplier
Bachelier – a strange new world for oil options
Model tuned to negative prices has implications for pricing, margining and delta hedging
CSDR buy-ins – next on the regulatory chopping block?
A big jump in trade fails is adding to doubts about the EU’s settlement discipline regime
Investors trade the drama out of the crisis
How LGIM, Axa IM, Manulife and other buy-siders tackled the toughest markets since 2008