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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
Spot FX shies away from regulatory yoke
As Europe weighs Aussie-style rules for spot trading, some see benefits – but many fear the burden
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
Leverage ratio squeeze hits options trades
With clearing banks constrained by leverage limits, prop traders fear options market lockdown
Alt risk premia chasing 'tail beta' – again
Quant strategies that failed in the coronavirus crash face a reckoning
The mysterious disappearance of a Chicago trading giant
Puzzling losses, a closely guarded auction and possible redemption – sources unpick Ronin’s collapse
Sonia term rate contenders tested by market mayhem
Regulator-proposed quote approach falters as dealers pull swap prices from screens
For ESG raters, clearer skies still signal stasis
As Covid-19 tamps down environmental risk, rating agencies are unmoving on ESG scoring
European banks seek capital relief for CVA hedges
Volatile trading in March caused CVA hedges to dominate market risk RWAs at some smaller dealers
To model the real world, quants turn to synthetic data
Future financial models will be built using artificially generated data
Capital One oil swaps waiver could haunt CFTC
Oil price collapse raises fresh questions about regulator’s justification for offering relief
FRTB comes too late for Covid crisis
Expected shortfall would stop Basel 2.5 duplicate capital charges, but backtesting still a problem
Quants pitch in to improve pandemic models
The finance industry’s quants are trying their hand at modelling the virus and its economic impact
Covid-19 tumult is testing AI fund returns
Some ML strategies have coped well, but others began to struggle as panic mounted
Shale firms pump hedge books for liquidity lifeline
Lucrative hedge portfolios offer promise of cash but unlocking residual value won’t be simple
Fee fight: dealers take aim at brokerage costs
Old tensions have new edge as banks urge clients to bypass platforms