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Energy Risk Asia Awards 2025: The winners
Winning firms showcase the value of prudent risk management amid challenging market conditions
EU banks fear tumbling rates will upset their IRRBB balance
As rates decline, hedging two separate tests of vulnerability becomes more difficult
Has US dollar hedging hype faded?
While the initial wave of real money USD hedging flows disappointed some dealers, many believe there is more to come
DFAST fashion: emerging trends from 12 years of US stress tests
The banks that breach buffers, the assets that perform best under stress, and other insights from Dodd-Frank Act stress-testing exercises
Some European banks still failing net interest income test
Swedbank joins seven other outliers after it updates methodology assumptions
Dora delay leaves EU banks fighting for their audit rights
Regulation requires firms to expand scrutiny of critical vendors that haven’t yet been identified
Future proof: can FMX-LCH platform prevail?
A year into FMX Futures Exchange, Treasury futures volumes are low, and firms aren’t cross-margining
Rumblings over UK review of ‘bad apples’ regime
Plans to reform Senior Managers and Certification Regime raise concerns over backsliding on conduct in financial industry
How FX pricing is adapting to Trumpian markets
Dealers are tying pricing engines to new signals in effort to cope with out-of-the-blue moves
The investors who aren’t fretting over Trump’s stat sulk
Some see dismissal of statistics agency chief as an assault on US institutional integrity; for others it offers a chance to throw off outdated methods
Is 2027 the new 24-hour trading target?
Slew of technical issues and dearth of SEC staff compound exchanges’ reluctance for round-the-clock equity trading
How to solve the Fed’s $300bn FRTB problem
A sacrifice will have to be made to ensure new market risk rules meet demands for capital neutrality
Saved by the Byrd? The fight over the OFR’s future
Dodd-Frank made it the premier data-grabber, and the financial world doesn’t like it
Fed’s new leverage ratio: the horse that never left the gate
Most of the biggest dealers aren’t leverage constrained now, and experts are sceptical that banks will use the extra capacity for Treasuries
More than arb: the short signals behind Jane Street’s India troubles
Prop trader ran parallel strategies, source says. That mix may have given rise to manipulation claims
Speedy onboarding: the push for faster model approvals
Europe’s banking watchdog is planning to streamline how it authorises credit model updates. Not a moment too soon, say bankers
Industry doubts pausing the EU reg machine will offer relief
Market participants are sceptical that a proposal to halt certain rulemaking will reduce compliance costs or boost growth
Glass houses: US agencies urged to shore up cyber defences
Email hack at OCC raises concerns over more widespread frailty at regulators
Will the UK’s FRTB time warp turn into a horror show?
UK regulator’s proposed transition year in 2027 could double banks’ implementation work
Taco trades and fake news fatigue
Is another era of ‘will he, won’t he’ numbing rates and FX traders to its jeopardy?
Bank of England floats ‘quasi-IMA’ in FRTB standardised method
Dealers welcome new route to capitalising residual risk, but it could fragment global ruleset
Choosy dealers search for their sweet spot
Dealer Rankings 2025: No bank appears in every top 10 list, as data reveals shifting strengths
OTC books grew in 2024 but remain below peaks
Dealer Rankings 2025: US fund and insurer books were larger in 11 of 16 markets
The price is tight: UK insurers battle for buyouts
Insurers get creative as traditional pension buyout levers come under pressure