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US banks cut commodity derivatives as equity books hit record
Commodity notional falls 6.3% as equity positions climb to $19.42trn
Swiss franc loan losses are a grey rhino for EU consumer finance
Impact on Polish banks exposed a blind spot on modelling legal risk that has wider implications, says mBank CRO Marek Lusztyn
Swap spread swings push US corporates to rethink locks
Volatile swap spreads have issuers weighing a shift from swap locks to costlier Treasury locks for pre-issuance hedges
European banks’ derivatives exposures surge 11% in six months
PFE add-ons account for nearly two-thirds of increase, driving largest jump since 2022
CROs urged to use ‘creative’ stress tests for interconnected risks
Risk Live Asia: AI, cyber security and geopolitics mean faster shock transmission across risk types
Industry pushes EU exchanges to solve equity post-trade frictions
Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan join calls for mandatory cash CCP interoperability
Sell side losing fight over dirty CSAs, data shows
Risk Benchmarking exercise finds growing buy-side push for collateral flexibility
Commerz, Lloyds, BPCE top European banks for interest rate sensitivity
Eight lenders face potential EVE losses exceeding 10% of Tier 1 capital under rate shocks
Macquarie rolls out 2022 playbook for Iran conflict
Talking Heads 2026: Volatile markets and wobbly pricing have tested commodities house
Large US banks’ lending to private equity funds reaches $239bn
JP Morgan, Goldman and BofA account for 80% of quarterly increase
Regulatory clarity urged for CME’s single-stock futures
SEC short selling and market access rules may hamper clearing and broker participation
European banks’ SFT exposures jump 14% to record €881bn
Eighteen of 29 lenders reach all-time highs; big repo and securities lending increases for German banks
Ripple builds ‘one-stop’ payments shop
Flurry of acquisitions marks latest step in digital payments specialist’s masterplan to crack trad-fi
JP Morgan, Wells Fargo AOCI losses double in Q3
Unrealised securities losses mount as rising yields depress valuations and hit CET1 capital
Calamos combines rival structures with new autocall ETF
Generic local vol model allows exotic payoff to be packaged in index without vol target
Barclays built a system to spot AI agents that might go rogue
Research setup ‘reads the mind’ of LLM-based agents and flags if they’re about to do something risky
Hedge funds shelved yen basis bet on US deal
Funds exited USD/JPY flatteners tied to Japan’s $550bn pledge and new funding may not revive the trade
Op risk data: EFG takes a bath for two decades of money laundering
Also: Deepfake voice clone cons Intesa division; key couple of cryptocurrency hacks. Data by ORX News
Emirates NBD fund RWAs surge 480%
Bank’s first reported use of look-through approach coincides with RBL acquisition
BRL bulls hold firm after Bolsonaro first-round win
Hedge funds keep USD/BRL puts ahead of election run-off as protection premiums for Lula upset soar
AI boom turns Morgan Stanley into a hot commodity
Talking Heads 2026: Data centres need long-dated power and gas hedges that only a big bank can provide
Choppy Q1 precedes big Q2 for US rates books
Interest rate and inflation swaps hit notional records, filings show, while mutual funds pile into Euribor and Sonia swaptions
RBC, Scotiabank securitisation RWAs hit record highs
SEC-SA RWAs rise 23% across major Canadian banks, led by C$1.5bn increase at RBC
Kookmin’s SFTs surge 40% on higher repo
Record securities financing transactions contributes to 15bp leverage ratio drop
PGGM sees a chance to diversify with fourth-trigger CDSs
Dutch pension manager hopes bank demand will continue to grow for derivatives counterparty credit protection
Imminent US shake-up of LCR slated to include discount window
Adding Fed liquidity facility to bank regulation may help overcome stigma, raise lending capacity
How Quoniam boosted its sentiment strategy by adding an LLM
Upgraded system creates scores from more-informative forward-looking parts of news
Barclays, SocGen lead European banks to new corporate SRT highs
Corporate loan retained exposures up $31bn at European G-Sibs
An agentic bank? Not so fast
With no clear definition or way to gauge ROI, claims of AI adoption should be taken with a pinch of salt
Canton: has Wall Street found its blockchain?
Network and privacy behind Digital Asset spin-off’s tilt at next-gen settlement
Basel III capital hit on G-Sibs jumps sixfold in H2 2025
Estimated increase in Tier 1 requirements rises to 1.8% – highest since 2023
French regulator wants permanent changes to EU’s output floor
Push for capital relief faces resistance from supervisors in Finland and the Netherlands
NSE chief blames algos for India closing auction turmoil
Ashishkumar Chauhan said traders should retrain algos instead of asking Sebi to change closing auction
AI bond deluge tests credit market’s appetite
Credit strategists say multi-year, poorly telegraphed AI issuance strains investor portfolios
From Navier-Stokes to manuscripts by the kilo: AI’s impact on quant research
As AI produces results in bulk, finance needs trusted ways to assess provenance, reliability and significance
UniCredit CVA RWAs double amid Commerz stake build-up
Bank cites strategic transactions as driver of the surge
Council plans take Aquis, BME out of Esma oversight
German push to exempt Deutsche Börse catches three others, according to sources
NDF algo innovation rises as internal matching builds
Banks bolster offerings with new EM pairs and improved execution quality, in bid to increase internalisation
Why watering down resolution plans is a bad idea
Bank failures are inevitable; banking crises are not
Five Korean banks set records for non-operational deposit outflows in LCR
Wholesale funding and money market deposits rise as retail deposit flows slide
For enterprise risk, influence runs deeper than any veto
Risk Benchmarking study finds formal veto rights concentrated among the largest lenders, but used only as a last resort
BIS’s Hernández de Cos on AI, non-bank risk and tokenisation
General manager talks about how the BIS is navigating a complex global environment
European UST holdings overtake Asia for first time
China and Japan see declines in US Treasuries while UK holdings approach $1trn
Japan’s Great Repatriation? Don’t count on quick returns
Switch from Treasuries to JGBs by GPIF likely to be gradual, which may spell more bad news for hedge funds
Kalshi seeks CFTC approval for 10-year US Treasury perp
Extended review period for first-of-its-kind contract will run until November 29
US fund managers reshuffle dealer books amid new trading highs
Mutual funds, ETFs hit record FX forwards positions but retreat from options; insurers rotate counterparties
CME’s single-stock futures rev up to overtake ‘ugly’ options trade
New cash-settled contracts with EFP facility could be an appealing alternative to reverse conversions
CCB’s securitisation risk-weighted assets nearly quadruple
Residential mortgage securitisations held as investor rise 42-fold in six months
Intraday pricing: fixed income’s next frontier
With firms looking to price fixed income securities on an intraday basis, specialist pricing providers such as LSEG help address cost, complexity and time-to-market challenges
UBS swaps funds spike 77% in August
Futures commission merchant reports highest customer funds since Credit Suisse takeover
