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AB’s faith in ‘magnificent others’ starts to pay off
Talking heads: Hybrid quant and fundamental approach proves its mettle as mega-cap magic begins to tarnish
TwentyFour’s ABS chief on skirting ‘overbaked’ deals as issuance booms
Some new issuers are pricing tighter than is sensible, says Aza Teeuwen
Finland’s Ilmarinen goes back to basics
Talking Heads: Once one of the few funds that would enter bank risk recycling trades, recent overcrowding has seen it pivot to listed equities
Supply chain decoupling fires up alpha focus at BofA
Talking Heads: Stock dispersion sees funds gross up on long/short baskets, while US structured notes come of age
FX data champion outlines transparency push
Stuart Simmons, new head of GFXC working group, wants trading platforms to come clean on how they use client data
Brooklyn’s robot analyst cuts costs by four-fifths
In tests, direct indexer’s model picks portfolios for review with near-perfect accuracy
Let’s grow the third-party risk playbook – CME security chief
CrowdStrike outage highlights need for financial sector to adjust its game plan
Hedge fund’s bots hunt for ‘non-linear’ trade signals
Boutique investment firm Goose Hollow uses LLMs to scrape thousands of news sources, searching for links that others miss
Skylight finds an opening in consensus pricing
Service provider claims key factors differentiate its own offer from the market leader’s
How APG is navigating overhaul of Dutch pensions
Firm is helping two funds move on to defined-contribution contracts, but it won't be plain sailing
How Jupiter times factors in uncertain markets
Asset manager is seeking to avoid momentum and value drawdowns
FXSpotStream looks to growth products beyond spot
New chief exec Jeff Ward highlights NDFs and FX swaps as next boom area for the venue
How Ally found the key to GenAI at the bottom of a teacup
Risk-and-tech chemistry – plus Microsoft’s flexibility – has seen US lender leap from experiments to execution
Sustainable bond markets miss an options trick
A derivatives mindset could boost lagging sustainability-linked market, argues climate think-tank
Natixis turns on the taps in flow trading
French bank boosts flow business, balancing structured solutions capabilities
Hidden Road ready for rush hour after FCM approval
Prime broker is trading “trillions” of notional with “a few hundred” counterparties in FX and crypto
The bank quant who wants to stop GenAI hallucinating
Wells Fargo model risk chief thinks he has found a way to validate large language models
Inside BGC’s quiet move into agency broking
The interdealer broker’s Caventor Capital arm is pitching a hands-on service for hedge funds, filling what it sees as a gap left by large banks
Generative AI is changing debate on explainability, says Deutsche
Innovation head says observability can aid regulatory acceptance
Flow Traders bullish about threat from big banks
Talking Heads 2023: Non-bank market-maker remains confident of its edge in small-ticket corporate credit
How Bloomberg got liquidity seekers to trust its machine learning models
Recent liquidity squeezes have proved the worth of advanced models, argues the tech giant. Now the task is to explain their inner workings to machine learning sceptics