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Early movers get better pricing on SOFR loans
Borrowers making the jump to SOFR before year-end are being offered more favourable spread adjustments
FICC calls for rehypothecation relief to scale US Treasuries clearing
Current prohibition on margin re-use penalises sponsored clearing of cash instruments
Leaked EU proposals show FRTB divergence on carbon trading
EC takes up Isda call to cut standardised risk-weight; unclear if it applies to non-EU markets
FX prime brokers jockey for buy-side flows as IM phase 6 looms
Banks say concentrating trades through single dealer would ease paperwork logjam for asset managers
Podcast: Antonov on pricing not-so-vanilla rates products
New model makes it easier to coherently price correlated derivatives
Fed repo backstop won’t help intraday liquidity stress
Banks say lack of guidance on resolution plans means SRF may not halt liquidity hoarding behaviour
Fed: banks may need AI risk systems to cope with smart devices
Tenfold increase in web-enabled devices via 5G and IoT means explosion in cyber threats, says official
Dealers fear operational ‘cliff edge’ when Libor disappears
Over-reliance on fallbacks could lead to failures at year-end
Japan dealers hail ‘Tona First’ success
Tona overtakes Libor benchmark in yen swaps, but Tibor surge creates new basis risks
BoE calls for changes to regulatory reporting
Current reporting methods are too costly and produce “crap data”, senior official says
In euro swaps tug of war, EC considers Eurex trading quota
European Commission may force firms to channel minimum amount of swaps activity to EU clearing house
Evergrande exposes China’s lack of credit hedges
Onshore credit derivatives market has been little help during property giant’s recent woes, sources say
US funds regain their nerve in index CDS market
Counterparty Radar: Pimco, Western AM push protection selling to new high, as buying dips
Eonia trading shuts down as CCPs make €STR switch
Dealers and venues step back from Eonia swaps after contracts become unclearable
Prime MMFs accept need for higher liquid asset ratios
But industry wants regulators to steer clear of mandatory swing pricing or gates
Banks and Fed still stuck on cyber loss data sharing
OpRisk North America: Fed “trying to understand the best way to leverage cyber data”, says Curti
Defiant ECB urges ‘further work’ on clearing relocation
Policy-makers moot changes to Emir to tackle systemic risks of third-country CCPs
US banks step up FX optimisation push as SA-CCR looms
With swaps and forwards hit hard by new capital measure, dealers turn to vendors and bilateral restructuring
China hints at broader scope with netting law name change
Central bank reportedly behind name change as derivatives rise up political agenda
Buy side divided on euro swap clearing move
With eurocrats dithering on extension of LCH waiver, asset managers mull when – or if – to jump ship to Eurex
Mifid’s derivatives open access poses ‘dire consequences’
Diminishing support for CCP open access ahead of European Commission review
How Athora uses its ties to Apollo to boost returns
European life insurer boosts returns by sourcing loan assets directly from private equity firm
Legg Mason, Western AM jump into surging inflation market
Counterparty Radar: AB, Lord Abbett, PGIM also report larger books in Q2, as swap activity ramps up
TCFD backs carbon disclosure, but not temperature scores
Influential standard setter decides the implied temperature rise ‘is not ready’ for funds