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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.
CanDeal ideal: could Canada make a sea-change in e-trading?
E-trading firm aims to capture all Canada’s electronic fixed income trade, requiring a culture shift
Has Covid stopped the clocks on FX timestamp efforts?
Budget reallocation may not be the only factor stalling standardisation progress, say participants
First P2P trade completed on Siege FX
Dark pool aims to match algo orders among its 30 buy-side clients
Banks boot up next-gen FX hedging bots
Automated FX hedging can save money and time, proponents argue. But corporates have qualms
Held in suspense: late futures orders blamed for Covid meltdown
Buy-side use of average pricing contributed to rash of failed trades and give-ups last March
Nascent green repo market promises new market ‘ecosystem’
Market participants see demand for repo backed by green collateral
US Fed facility bought Libor bonds with ‘weak’ fallbacks
Industry surprise over purchase of floaters linked to doomed benchmark
Guy Debelle on the FX Global Code and the rise of the buy side
Asia Risk 25: Code’s creators considering updates to sections on last look and pre-hedging
Markets search for FX factor as rates fall flat
Traders signal shift to currency strategies, but is it passing fad or permanent fixture?
Algo users seek apples-to-apples info
BIS study raised concerns; standards now a work in progress at GFXC
Diginex chief on taming the Wild East of cryptocurrencies
Asia Risk 25: Singapore-based digital exchange wants to bring respectability – and regulation – to the sector
Machine learning will create new sales-bots – UBS’s Nuti
Technologists working to automate indications of interest from trading desks
Why central banks aren’t worried about FX algos – for now
Disclosure failings feed into FX code; other issues are worrying, but distant, says SNB’s Maechler
A step closer to the perfect volatility model
Research on ‘rough volatility’ gives fresh insight into financial fluctuations, quant expert explains
TradingHub: client data trove offers jump on market abuse
Surveillance firm already using aggregate info to tackle best execution questions
How low can you go: falling cost of FX fix sparks concern
Algorithms reducing fixing fees, but some dealers willing to go even lower – perhaps dangerously so
Bilateral streams slash FX trading costs by 80%, dealers claim
Risk Live: At some banks, 70% of spot is now traded via bilateral feeds
UK inflation reform date to be set in November
RPI switch could happen as early as 2025 to reduce government payouts on gilt linkers, experts suggest