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Natixis hires Boleslawski to head equities
Long-standing SG trading head arrives at French rival
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
Dual IM relief may slash 2020 docs burden by 90%
Isda sees around 8,000 counterparty relationships lifted from phase-five repapering
IM big bang split confirmed with new $50bn threshold
Addition of sixth compliance phase looks set to slash September 2020 in-scope entities by more than half
People moves: CRO role for SG’s Ricke, Barclays continues hiring spree, new SwapClear head, and more
Latest job changes across the industry
BoE is going to curb Libor collateral. But how much?
Harshest of three ideas to shift market to Sonia would largely ban Libor collateral from its market ops
JP Morgan warming to derivatives-based term RFR rates
Risk Live: Unlike Libor, the market has a say in them. (Though they may not be real term rates, executive muses)
Dealers issue rallying cry for cross-currency benchmark reform
Risk Live: Global banks need to drive new standards for multi-rate swaps, say leading industry execs
JP Morgan’s Hudson: innovation stuck in trading web
Risk Live: Digital head floats shared platform, rather than “point solutions”
BoE drops Libor for hedging UK forex reserves
Risk Live: Central bank adopts Sonia in Treasury swap programme, consults on restrictions for Libor collateral
Lingering Euribor may hit €STR futures prospects
Bourses question viability of euro RFR contracts as Euribor reform efforts remove transition incentives
UBS unleashes Orca for rates clients
Machine learning algo trawls liquidity pools to slash US Treasury trading costs
Giancarlo bows out with regulatory deference
Move comes amid row between US and European policymakers over cross-border CCP regulation
Evolution or extinction: Ice swap rate’s post-Libor quandary
Thin liquidity in SOFR swaps imperils reference rate for $40 trillion swaptions market
Swaps users mull ‘big bang’ for SOFR discounting
Cleared and bilateral US dollar swaps could move to SOFR discounting on the same day in 2020
German CDS switch creates credit-linked note mismatch
Note issuers fear losses after relabelling of swap contracts creates subordination discrepancy
Autocall concentration weighs on dealers
Hedging headaches force issuers to seek new structured product blockbusters
Dealers seek clarity on buy-side IM relief
Hundreds of buy-side firms may still need to calculate margin and get models approved
Dealers suffer in euro rates desert
Analysis shows collapse in swap and bond bid/offer spreads, as traders say business is “unsustainable”
CDSs get subjective
Legal certainty loses out to commercial objectives in race to fix manufactured defaults
Swaps market heading for Libor fallbacks clash
Euro market goes own way on question of how to replace term Ibors with overnight RFRs