Asia
Margin exchange threshold relief: get out of jail free?
‘Game-changing’ IM exchange threshold relief may not be the phase five free pass it first appears
Chinese banks set for mass loan repricing
Options launch slated for February to help industry switch to new benchmark by August
Asia moves: Natixis hires Asia M&A chief, Deutsche Bank picks north Asia head, and more
Latest job news across the industry
Quant Guide 2020: City University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong, China
Quant Guide 2020: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Hong Kong, China
Quant Finance Master’s Guide 2020
Risk.net’s guide to the world’s leading quant master’s programmes, with the top 25 schools ranked
Taming the future: Hong Kong and China
Times are tough for Hong Kong, but it remains the best-positioned financial centre to access China
Fund managers look beyond Hong Kong as instability bites
Contingency planning for Hong Kong protests could turn into structural shift for asset management industry
Bank disruptors: how tech joint ventures help Nomura’s bottom line
Nomura is developing new software services to supplement trading profits
Haitong taps NLP to inform collateral coverage
Hong Kong broker scours news and blogs in bid for better corporate signals in China’s opaque markets
Asian investors primed to buy more CLOs, experts say
Liquidity and diversification are drivers for demand, after US loan market’s recovery from blip
JSCC caps member cash calls, revamps futures margin model
Clearing house set to end unlimited default fund top-ups for futures clearing
Top 10 operational risk losses of 2019
Fraud, embezzlement, tax evasion, subprime (still) and rogue trading – and Citi crops up twice. Data by ORX News
Risk weight tweak could fix IFRS 9 capital clash – research
Practitioner suggests way to cancel out double-counting of Basel credit loss provisions
Singapore’s banks eye LCH membership
London CCP’s move to clear for stranded SGX clients pays off, amid broader Apac membership push
Smarter trading in a fragmented world
FX Week recently hosted a webinar in partnership with Refinitiv to ask foreign exchange industry leaders to discuss geopolitical challenges, market changes and developments, and evolving technologies, and how they have shaped forex markets in Asia
Compounded rate out of favour, finds Japan survey
Users prefer forward-looking term rate to replace yen Libor, but dealers bemoan “lack of understanding”
Banks step up stress-testing of Hong Kong dollar peg risk
Flurry of forex options trades makes banks re-evaluate exposures
Death, taxes and technology risk
Exchanges must plan for the certainty that their technology will fail, sometimes
Asia moves: Soc Gen replaces Asia chief, Deutsche Bank appoints wealth management head, and more
Latest job changes across the industry
Buy side still not adopting global forex code – Debelle
Forex committee wants asset managers to embrace standards; shifts focus to algo trading
Korea autocallables under threat from draft rules
Autocallable volumes could suffer as mis-selling fallout spreads to equity-linked structures