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Custom index TRS booms at BlackRock
Isda AGM: Bespoke total return swaps span all mandate types but e-trading bottlenecks remain
MMF investments hit new high after $1trn gained over 2025
Outright UST holdings drive surge with $900bn rise in six months
How investment firms are innovating with quantum technology
Banks and asset managers should be proactive in adopting quantum-safe strategies
People: Fishwick hands over BlackRock CRO role, Citi expands Asia FX team, and more
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BlackRock appoints Pierre Sarrau as chief risk officer
Current CRO Edward Fishwick will be head of research at BlackRock’s RQA group
Op risk data: Low latency, high cost for NSE
Also: Brahmbhatt fraud hits BlackRock, JP Morgan slow to shop dubious deals. Data by ORX News
BlackRock, Citadel Securities, Nasdaq mull tokenised equities’ impact on regulations
An SEC panel recently debated the ramifications of a future with tokenised equities
BlackRock and DRW execs bullish on tokenisation potential
DRW’s Don Wilson expects every instrument to be traded on-chain in five years’ time
Fed official dismisses de-dollarisation talk
Speakers at IIF conference believe dollar selloff is cyclical rather than a structural decline
BlackRock, BGI and the big quant pivot
How the world’s largest asset manager revived the fortunes of its struggling west coast unit
People: Nomura’s rates rebuild continues, DB USA’s new CEO, and more
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Europe’s Ucits funds: Made in the USA
Counterparty Radar: EU retail funds market is a prime example of Trump’s miscalculation on trade
Pimco’s $19 billion Sonia swaptions trade
Counterparty Radar: Bond giant springs up as largest player in space among US mutual fund managers, with Guggenheim shadowing its move
Vanguard is new kid on the CDS options block
Counterparty Radar: Passive behemoth held a quarter of reported notional among US retail funds in Q4 2024
Market whipsaw spurs calls to rethink buy-side stress-testing
Risk Live Boston: Morgan Stanley and BlackRock urge rethink of scenario assumptions and top-down factor models
Top 10 op risks: For change management, the cloud is its own weather front
As lenders move legacy banking to the cloud, the risks of getting it wrong are exponentially greater
BlackRock bucks trend in shrinking IRS market for Ucits
Counterparty Radar: Pimco boosts pay-fixed book by $27.5 billion in H1 2024
BlackRock tests ‘quantum cognition’ AI for high-yield bond picks
Study uses Qognitive machine learning model to find liquid substitutes for hard-to-trade securities
TD, Goldman make strides with Ucits in FX forwards trades
Counterparty Radar: JP Morgan AM notional crossed $100 billion threshold in first half of 2024
LCH expects to boost deliverable FX clearing with new adds
Onboarding of dealers and link-up with CLS could swell interbank deliverable FX clearing volumes
People: All shook up at the SEC, Krens succeeds Litvack at Isda, and more
Latest job changes across the industry