Intercontinental Exchange (Ice)
Race to create term risk-free rates hots up
Markit joins term Sonia hopefuls; four providers release term €STR plans
US clearers move to dole out losses besides default
ICC wants members to chip in on investment and custodial losses; the OCC, on the whole op risk enchilada
Ice swap rate failure disrupts exotics desks
Dollar version of rate wasn’t published on nine out of 22 working days in August
Ice, CME shore up clearing house recovery planning
Introduction of VMGH and tear-ups comes amid impasse over CCP recovery and resolution rules
Euribor futures spread spike strangles prop traders
Safe-haven butterfly trades savaged by shock divergence in mid-term contracts
IBA mulls RFQ data and Sonia spinoff to bolster swap rate
Benchmark administrator consults on plan to reduce non-publication and prepare for transition to RFRs
CurveGlobal and the curious case of the lost open interest
One-third short sterling plunge in open interest on CurveGlobal may signal more capital-sensitive times
The great migration: CCPs ponder life after Span
As CME moves to a value-at-risk methodology, CCPs that license its model look on nervously
SGX’s Koh defends clearing methods post-Nasdaq
Existing tools still work, despite external scrutiny on default management, says risk chief
Sonia users face three-way choice in term rate
Trio of rival forward-looking versions of sterling Libor successor set to be available
Lingering Euribor may hit €STR futures prospects
Bourses question viability of euro RFR contracts as Euribor reform efforts remove transition incentives
Swaps data: a new era of competition in interest rate futures
The demise of Libor has set off a battle for market share in futures referencing new risk-free rates
Evolution or extinction: Ice swap rate’s post-Libor quandary
Thin liquidity in SOFR swaps imperils reference rate for $40 trillion swaptions market
Ice creates daily credit risk monitoring tool
Company muscles into Bloomberg’s fixed income data territory with bond analytics service
Don’t fear the clearer
Wider use of CCPs not systemic threat – but participants do face hard-to-measure risks
Singapore looks to synthetic Libor for new benchmark calculation
The way Singapore’s swap rate is calculated must change if Libor disappears after 2021
Prop traders sound warning over EU capital regime
Non-banks fear topsy-turvy capital requirements under new rules based on clearing margin
FCA: ‘We can be Libor fallback trigger’
Amid fears of hedging mayhem, Schooling Latter says FCA verdict could be trigger for smoother rates switch
Lobbyists seek eleventh-hour Brexit relief for UK futures
EC urged to extend CCP safe harbour so listed derivatives don’t switch to OTC
Ice changing margin model for move into options
CCP aims for Q1 2019 roll-out of new Monte Carlo-based methodology as it plans launch of index swaptions
Industry fears EU ‘Google tax’ will hit trading venues, CCPs
Broad wording of digital services tax could place market infrastructure in firing line
Search for term Libor replacement faces twin obstacles
Forward-looking rates based on futures too contrived, but OIS market lacks liquidity
Sef reforms could distort new, sounder benchmark rates
Tradition’s Fitzpatrick warns that more ways of trading swaps could dent progress made on fixings
Nasdaq default: rivals question direct clearing
“Was this individual margined correctly?” asks Ice’s Sprecher