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There isn’t anything that really constrains them [the US Financial Stability Oversight Council] from going back to a focus on systemically important non-bank institutions and… the transmission channels
Marc Saidenberg, EY
There’s really no downside to scenario analysis unless it causes you to do something that harms you, and that’s pretty rare
Aaron Brown, formerly of AQR
When you look at the volume on the private bank business [in autocalls] it is a multiple compared to last year. It’s a very, very big shift for investors
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Insurers and pension providers in the eurozone likely exacerbated the run on the region’s money market funds (MMFs) in March, as they withdrew cash en masse to cover huge margin calls on derivatives triggered by Covid-induced volatility. Researchers at the European Central Bank found a strong correlation between MMF inflows and outflows and the variation margin payments made to and from insurance corporations and pension funds related to their interest rate and currency derivatives.
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Litigation threats seen delaying SEC climate disclosure rules
Efforts to demonstrate materiality of exposures to investment decision-making is taking longer than expected, say lawyers
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