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SGX fortifies its defences to ward off tomorrow’s outages
Exchange operator fosters “breach mentality” to help prepare for business disruption, explains risk chief
Inside Citi’s FX refresh
Flavio Figueiredo reveals how the bank revitalised its options and e-trading units – and finally tackled SA-CCR
How FCA could help tackle third-party risk in AI
UK regulator’s supercharged sandbox is designed to boost explainability and reduce reliance on vendors
Franklin Templeton’s great DeFi migration
TradFi’s money and DeFi’s tech will inevitably combine, says asset manager’s futurist-in-residence
Goldman’s Houghton on Asia’s watchful bondholders
Talking Heads 2025: Fed independence and debt concerns could fuel new moves away from US debt, says Apac Ficc co-head
DTCC’s plan to unlock billions in margin and capital savings
T+1 settlement has already cut margin; now firm is working on OCC tie-up, among 10 efficiency projects
Interest rate risk rules need more work, says Fed’s Barr
Former vice-chair for supervision also tells Risk.net his redraft of Basel III would have softened NMRFs
Morgan Stanley sees the elephants in the room
Talking Heads 2025: Hedge fund crowding means macro markets have fatter tails, argues fixed income co-head Jakob Horder
Nifty trades of Graham
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