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There aren’t many people who exclusively trade derivatives these days – buy-side execution desks increasingly work across product silos. As a title that has spent most of its life focusing on derivatives, Risk.net has had to broaden its coverage.
This category is home to trading and execution coverage that ventures beyond derivatives, but retains a focus on interesting, structural issues. Among other topics, you’ll find articles here on repo and funding, bonds and yield curves, front-office technology, operational efficiency, clearing and margining.
BNPP back in dealer top three for FX forwards with mutuals
Deutsche Bank, HSBC hit by cuts at Vanguard and Pimco in Q2

MassMutual exited inflation hedges in Q2
Counterparty Radar: Closure of $1.5 billion book dealt a blow to BNP Paribas’s dealer ranking

ESG data and scoring solutions, 2023: market update and vendor landscape
A report considering the key trends and developments in environmental, social and governance (ESG) data and scoring, and analysing the vendor landscape.

On-chain FX’s brave new world excites some, worries others
Trading tokenised versions of currencies on blockchain could slash settlement risk but sceptics raise concerns over liquidity and pricing
Plugging the leaks in skewed pricing
Liquidity recycling has made it trickier for LPs to identify information leakage
Social distancing: quantifying the ‘S’ in ESG
The ‘social’ pillar of ESG has been the poor relation in terms of data – until now
Lincoln, Global Atlantic push JPM to index options top spot
Counterparty Radar: Among life insurers, options notional grew 7% in Q1
Why credit default committees are a turnoff for the buy side
With high costs and little to gain from participating, investment firms seem content to leave the legal work to the banks
FX disruption template paused due to Isda definition clash
GFMA’s close-out framework put on hold as Isda reviews 1998 FX derivatives rule book
Shhh, don’t tell: the struggle to keep skew under wraps
Liquidity recycling by clients has made it more difficult for banks to keep skews quiet
Citi’s single-name CDS book with retail funds doubled in Q1
Counterparty Radar: New trades with PGIM totalling $2.4 billion return Citi to top of dealer rankings
Fleeting volatility vexes trend followers
Jumpy markets give quant firms the jitters as tried-and-tested strategies struggle in 2023
Global Atlantic’s swaptions book surges
Counterparty Radar: KKR-owned firm exploits lower volatility in Q1 as swaptions market for US life insurers grows 17%
PGIM trades reinforce Citi’s credit options stronghold
Counterparty Radar: US retail funds’ aggregate notional drops to lowest levels since late 2020 in Q1
Allianz Life triples index CDS book
Counterparty Radar: US life insurer market’s notional volume doubles in Q1
Pimco returns to sold index CDS growth
Counterparty Radar: Market for US retail funds sheds $5.2 billion in volume in Q1
Deutsche Bank’s swaptions trading with US retail funds soars
Counterparty Radar: Space grows 6% in Q1 as Citi’s book of business also surges
MSIM revived RMB options activity in Q1
Counterparty Radar: Investment firm added $2 billion in dollar/renminbi options, mainly with JP Morgan and StanChart
MassMutual maintains lead in IR swaps market for life insurers
Counterparty Radar: Bank of America heads dealer rankings as sector’s notional drops 1%
Fidelity FX forwards trades propel BofA to top dealer spot
Counterparty Radar: Bank of America leads dealer rankings in Q1 for the first time
Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan lead Risk’s first Dealer Rankings
Dealer Rankings 2023: Analysis of more than 1,000 cuts of Counterparty Radar data offers rare glimpse of sell-side pecking order
IR swaps market for US funds rebounds in Q1
Counterparty Radar: Notional traded by mutual funds, ETFs bounces back to early-2022 levels
MassMutual drives JP Morgan’s FX forwards surge with insurers
Counterparty Radar: Bank’s total values rise 72% in Q4 to crack top 10 dealer rankings for first time since Q2 last year
Fast LPs accuse rivals of maxing out last look response times
Firms with sub-10ms checks complain of losing volumes to slower rivals, prompting one to ditch ECNs