Ben St. Clair
Journalist
Ben covers Markets for Risk.net. He holds a master’s degree in financial journalism from City, University of London, and a bachelor’s in sociology and American studies from Fordham University.
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Treasury futures super-user switches to swaps
Capital Group’s Anbax fund slashes UST futures holdings in move to alternative rates derivatives
Derivatives trading halved amid CrowdStrike tech outage
With broker screens offline, G3 rates derivatives volumes plunged versus a normal Friday
Franklin Templeton steps back into FX options
Former biggest user of the instrument among US mutual funds returns with $7.6bn of USD/JPY strategies
Data reveals hidden clockwork of FX forwards market
More than 70% of Vanguard’s volumes and nearly half of Pimco’s regularly occur on just four calendar days
Banks look to offload ‘orphan’ hedge risk
Bespoke CDSs shift private credit borrowers’ derivatives default exposures back to the buy side
New CDS index delayed by regulatory capital concerns
Dealer worries about impact of self-referencing trades derail CDX Financials launch at last minute
New CDS index aims to broaden hedging of US bank exposure
CDX Financials will include inactive or untraded single names referencing smaller institutions
Cuts and points – how the Dealer Rankings work
We have a simple way to compare dealers. Sort of simple, anyway
Allianz Life drops single-name CDS positions in Q4
Counterparty Radar: US life insurance industry volumes sink to lowest level in two years
Sustainable bond markets miss an options trick
A derivatives mindset could boost lagging sustainability-linked market, argues climate think-tank