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Unsettling times: why is settlement risk on the rise?
Regulators and market participants searching for answers after BIS figures show substantial increase
Alt data aims to shake up credit scoring business
Young firms, using machine learning methods to scrape consumer info, challenge established agency model
Hammer time? Clearers mull co-operation on default auctions
Some CCPs are mooting joint auctions to resolve large defaults – but critics deem them unworkable
Fund managers seek to plug holes in ESG data
Social intel proves elusive as virus reawakens sense of corporate virtue
Autocalamity: can hit product be reinvented?
Spreads on ‘worst-of’ bonds leap 50% as some dealers retreat and others pile on hedges
Hedge funds eye Brexit escape from Mifid reporting
UK tipped to diverge from Europe’s proposed reforms to fund manager rules
SOFR discounting: CCPs prepare for make or break auctions
Deluge of one-way risk and kinks in basis swap auctions could derail Libor transition milestone
Will the exit price be right in new Isda docs?
Industry body is updating unloved procedure for valuing terminated swaps
A bridge too far: EBA swap stay to spur mass repapering?
Industry scrambles to avoid duplicating BRRD close-out contract changes across four jurisdictions
Dealers vie with Markit to electronify bond issuance
Competing platforms could split the market for new issuance in Europe and the US
The FX swaps client clearing comeback
Chatter about the service is picking up again, but significant hurdles remain
Imperfect balance? Clearers weigh EU’s CCP resolution tools
Potential levels of loss mutualisation under EU rules are unnerving some clearing members
Rival SOFR conventions splinter loan market
Diverging approaches to calculating interest payments sow uncertainty and hedging concerns
CVA desks arm themselves for the next crisis
March’s volatility forces dealers to fine-tune hedging strategies
Covid-19 tumult prompts rethink of buy-side risk management
Buy-side risk survey: investment firms making changes to their risk reports, stress tests and concentration limits
EU hands CCP members a narrow win on skin in the game
Clearing members could use the final rules to push for higher CCP capital globally
Mega-hedges and generational strife at PGGM
Buy-side risk survey: for Dutch pension giant, battle between young and old shaped response to March mayhem
Race to cash in on term Sonia is filled with twists
Pending merger and FCA’s effort to create synthetic Libor rates could sway outcome
Inside the Fed’s secret liquidity stress tests
Lobbyists and Quarles train sights on horizontal exams that can shape bank risk appetite
Quant finance courses tested by Covid’s echoing classrooms
Universities fret over drop in international students and demands of online learning
How UBS AM dealt with Covid-19 crunch
Buy-side risk survey: Swiss giant had planned for liquidity squeeze, says CRO – but not one like March
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
Funds turn to stress-testing in fast-forward and reverse
Buy-side risk survey: Covid-19 is changing the way investors think about stress tests
FX swaps platform aims to cut out the banks – but not entirely
Peer-to-peer newcomer FX HedgePool targets asset managers’ month-end hedging activity