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Use-cases for Mifid II data prove elusive
Banks running market share analysis from trade reports, but data quality hampering other projects
EU swap users still hope for single-sided reporting, one day
Lawmakers fail to deliver Emir reprieve but tease at potential future changes
Banks concoct fixed income alternative premia 2.0
Fixed income was a rare winner in a terrible 2018 for alternative risk premia. More complex iterations are on the way
Once bitten, twice shy: UK traders wary of inflation reform
Proposals to fix RPI methodology flaws are back on the agenda, but traders have been caught out before
Top 10 op risks 2019: theft and fraud
Rogue employees are costly, but the thought of cyber mayhem dominates managers’ concerns
Top 10 op risks 2019: outsourcing and third-party risk
Perfecting internal controls is meaningless when lax oversight of outsourcing offers back-door vulnerability
Top 10 op risks 2019: Brexit
UK departure from European Union could result in “every operational risk you’ve ever seen”
Top 10 op risks 2019: regulatory risk
Money laundering and threats to personal data have regulators spooked
Top 10 op risks 2019: organisational change
Missteps during strategic change open up a grab bag of different risks
Top 10 op risks 2019: IT failure
Worries amplified by conspicuous mishaps and regulators’ new focus on operational resilience
Top 10 op risks 2019: IT disruption
Cyber attacks present multi-faceted threat, but banks and regulators are fighting back
Top 10 op risks 2019: data compromise
Big data provides big target for hackers, as banks wrestle with risk of monetary and reputational loss
Top 10 op risks 2019: mis-selling
Concern over sales practices remains amid economic and political uncertainties
Top 10 op risks 2019: data management
GDPR fuels fears of mega-fines for data-handling missteps
Dealers suffer in euro rates desert
Analysis shows collapse in swap and bond bid/offer spreads, as traders say business is “unsustainable”
Brexit threatens to trip up derivatives reporting
Split will increase firms’ workload and costs, and result in less-accurate regulatory reports
Hammer horror: banks fear CCP auctions after Nasdaq
Auction failure at Nasdaq sparks debate over who gets to bid on portfolios, and whether they should be pre-hedged
Asset managers brave patchy data to nowcast China’s GDP
Techniques include using many datasets, relying on proxies and continually reviewing models
Shallow liquidity threatens Saron momentum
Swaps on Swiss Libor successor gain traction, but lack of cash products poses liquidity hurdle
FRTB 2.0: lower capital but high running costs
Revisions to market risk rules fail to ease complexities of internal models approach
FRTB is here – now it’s up to local regulators
Each jurisdiction must produce its own version of FRTB; until then, banks are hanging back
Clients feel forgotten by Giancarlo’s swaps trading plans
Industry says wider Sef mandate ignores reality of dealer-to-client market
Banks use machine learning to ‘augment’ corporate sales
Big banks are embarking on massive projects to tie up machine learning and big data to sell better to clients
US-China trade war becomes focus again for commodities
As the end of the 90-day truce in US-China trade hostilities looms, commodity markets brace for uncertainty