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Trillion-dollar basis trade will keep growing – asset managers
Treasury issuance, credit trades and repo stigma drive rise in futures use
Bonds will cushion equities in election volatility – Lombard Odier
August showed old risk models can be trusted ahead of voting day, says investment manager’s macro chief
BIS warns of growing offshore reinsurance risk
Deals by private equity-backed life firms could mask risk in $25 trillion industry, report says
Are regulators wrong to think of AT1s as debt?
Bank capital bonds face criticism. One answer might be to treat them as ‘fixed-income equity’
Regulators want to fix AT1s. Investors want restraint
Tweaking the instrument that regulators love to hate may be the only way to prevent its abolition
Zero-day options
Taming of the skew sparks new debate over 0DTEs
Some pin lower put premium on short-dated market-maker hedging; others cite fundamentals
OCC readies new intraday margin requirement
Draft measure would cover all options positions including 0DTEs
Bank QIS teams take zero-day options plunge
JP Morgan sees better risk/reward profile for 0DTE-based trend strategies
Balanced trading is calming zero-day volatility fears
UBS finds little evidence that 0DTE options exacerbate volatility
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