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Talking Heads 2025: Macro hedge fund shut down swap-spread exposure during April turmoil; sees positive signals amid Trump noise
How Amundi’s options strategy profited from dollar slump
French asset manager grabbed euro call options at low prices in tactical pivot for its FX absolute return fund
Brevan Howard: life beyond macro
Talking Heads 2025: Wider range of strategies helped firm rebound from 2018 low – but brought re-correlation risks
Barclays braces for a macro storm
Talking Heads 2025: Developed markets are racking up debt. Finding buyers could be difficult, says macro head Hossein Zaimi
Former OCC chief on the sting of peeling the Basel III ‘onion’
Michael Hsu warns successors not to cut bank capital or neglect rate risks that destroyed SVB
Jive Investments quicksteps towards hedged returns
Brazilian fund manager uses combo of options and forwards to push down hedging costs compared with plain NDF strategy
FICC’s Klimpel on ironing out the kinks in UST clearing
Focus shifts to margin efficiency and capital treatment of cleared trades
Stock-picking bots and models that don’t trade: AI at Vontobel
Early experiments are already bearing fruit, in sometimes surprising ways
How Brightwell navigates a world of change
‘One portfolio’ approach helped UK pension fund steer a course through trade turmoil, Covid and LDI crisis
Amundi’s in-house expert keeping watch on Putin, Trump and Xi
Geopolitics expert Anna Rosenberg believes data and probability are key to forecasting market-moving events
Deutsche Bank takes AutobahnFX on the open road
Proprietary trading platform sets out new workflow-based approach to collaborating with venues
Are EU banks buying cloud from Lidl’s middle aisle?
As European banks seek to diversify from US cloud hyperscalers, a supermarket group is becoming an unlikely new supplier
Evalueserve tames GenAI to boost client’s cyber underwriting
Firm’s insurance client adopts machine learning to interrogate risk posed by hackers
How Florida’s pension plan foresaw deglobalisation and trimmed its risk
Retirement fund reduced exposure to public equities more than a year ago
New FX swap matching platform aims to bridge voice and e-trading
FXswapX seeks to electronify “the last bastion of voice trading” in the interdealer market
Euronext plots bond futures foray
Exchange group plans to launch mini futures on European sovereign bonds, aimed at retail investors
Commodity price insurance, an alternative to swaps?
ChAI founder eyes metals and power for expansion after selling first hedges for recycled materials
Inside the company that helped build China’s equity options market
Fintech firm Bachelier Technology on the challenges of creating a trading platform for China’s unique OTC derivatives market
Banks urged to track vendor AI use, before it’s too late
Veteran third-party risk manager says contract terms and exit plans are crucial safeguards
Citi rolls out revamped SDP in emerging markets
Unified API will boost electronic pricing and automation for restricted currencies, says bank
How Citi moved GenAI from firm-wide ban to internal roll-out
Bank adopted three specific inward-facing use cases with a unified framework behind them
Buffer stop: Eurex clearing members shunt default fund
Clearing house’s CRO says both members and clients opt to pay more margin instead
TD’s prop-style trading shop rises up bond rankings
Ascent of bank’s bond trading business comes amid electronification changes in US fixed income market structure
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