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Limit band risks stale prices in 24/7 markets, SEC warned
Roundtable participants say proposed restrictions could leave stocks trading at unrealistic values
7IM hits £1bn with blend of in-house and bank QIS
UK manager combines its own strategies with offerings from Goldman, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley and SG
Emerging markets options trading outpaces G10
Growth in EM options volumes between dealers and clients are nearly double that of G10 pairs
Hedge funds return to JGB flatteners after brutal stop-outs
Funds bet repatriation of assets by Japan’s pension funds will driver further long-end yield compression
Bloomberg brings e-FX options trading to API
Buy-side users will run full RFQ workflow for vanilla and exotic FX options through one connection
Tradeweb streamlines bilateral swap unwinds
After sterling IRS termination, platform eyes electronic credit checking and CSAs
Dollar reversal could scupper EM carry boom, dealers warn
Surprise rate hike or a USD rally may force unwinds in popular emerging markets carry trades
JSCC faces pushback on plans to merge futures default funds
Members say commodities products should be kept fully segregated because of different risk profile
Issuers wrap prediction market bets for European clients
Structured notes from Marex and Otala offer prediction market exposure to European firms shut out of the raw contracts
CME offers basis traders a leg up
New Treasury Link service ‘levels playing field’ in strategy dominated by high-speed players
Alphabet, Micron ramp up FX hedging
Tech pair leads FX derivatives surge in year to Q2, while notionals at Apple and Johnson & Johnson decline
CME aims to offer client UST cross-margining internally in 2027
CCP has filed initial proposal with SEC; wants to offer more products than joint FICC programme
Lifeline keeps Europe’s hopes afloat for single-sided reporting
Despite Esma’s proposal for delegated reporting of trades, the industry may yet get its wish
Traders remain on alert as Kospi-KRW decoupling wanes
Negative equity-FX correlation normalises as vol subsides, but funds poised for future opportunities
People: Barclays IB pivots to co-CEOs, SocGen in shake-up, and more
Latest job changes across the industry
FDIC relearns SVB lessons in resolution tinkering
Paring back requirements gets thumbs up from some, but concerns linger
Options vanna positioning echoes 2024 vol spike, banks warn
Extreme negative position could exacerbate vol response in US equity selloff
AI trained on fundamentals says which stocks will crash in sync
Neural net models correlations without a returns history and could improve stress testing
Stablecoin consortia may be ‘interim’ step to solo bank issuance
Former Citi payments head and Ubyx founder says all G-Sibs will issue their own coins
Big investors turn to off-exchange prediction markets
Millions of OTC event contracts are being traded monthly, with individual deals as big as $10 million
Futures venues eye growth in BRL trading with Asian investors
CME and SGX see ramp-up in out-of-hours demand for lucrative carry trade
Risk managers grapple with hazards and benefits of intraday repo
Expected increase in collateral velocity and re-use could also boost leverage and risk in markets
CFTC accused of ‘double standards’ on compute futures
Duffy questions ‘long review’ of CME’s contract when Kalshi already offers similar product
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