Europe
LME tear-up may have averted ‘multiple defaults’ – CEO
Decision to cancel nickel trades on March 8 forestalled ‘unprecedented’ margin call, argues exchange chief
Late EU clearing house recognition spooks dealers
Bank capital requirements on exposures to affected foreign CCPs could jump after June 28 deadline
Back in time: a brief history of LME’s nickel meltdown
As prices went haywire, margin remained frozen and calls to suspend trading were rejected
Buy side looks to cash in on euro swap pricing anomaly
Fixed rates on long-dated €STR swaps now above their Euribor equivalents
Brexit bogeyman haunts EU’s Mifir transparency push
Bloc considers copying darker side of UK's divergence from its 2018 rules
Ukrainian debt holders brace for restructure
Investors could see a 40% haircut on the bonds, but it’s never that simple
Standardised market RWAs surge at EU banks
UniCredit and BNP Paribas among dealers affected by new FX risk guidelines
Coded swaps reporting plan delights some, but not all
Cost-busting code for swaps reporting could be tricky if banks lack internal standardisation
A SwapAgent-bilat basis? Not for now
SA-CCR may make settled-to-market capital benefits more difficult to quantify
Danske, Deutsche and PNC pin SVAR to Covid-19
Most global banks continue to use the global financial crisis to stress-test their portfolios
Europeans face longer wait for consolidated tape for ETFs
Issuers say lack of trading volumes is holding back a European ETF market that lags behind the US
JP Morgan’s deep hedging reaches cliquets
Euro Stoxx roll-out is live and S&P is next, despite exit of machine learning programme’s figurehead
BlackRock calls for blockchain to fix futures processing snags
Asset manager wants industry to move faster in adopting “single source of truth” model
Index vol has been a poor hedge for equity rout, traders say
Single stock ‘micro’ hedges have offered more protection in this year’s selloff
After nickel-gate, Esma may seek data from more non-EU CCPs
Supervisor concerned lack of granular data on exposures could leave it flat-footed on LME-style risk events
France floats U-turn on Mifid’s dark pool restrictions
Leaked doc shows UK competition threat weighs on minds of EU lawmakers over non-exchange trading
Credit RWAs for EU, UK banks up in Q1 amid IRB clampdown
Reforms to improve comparability of internal models compound declining asset quality
Emir data may have exposed Archegos, but not in real time
Entity-level reports were limited to supervisors, leaving counterparty banks in the dark
No soft landings in flight to safety from Russia
Impact of Ukraine invasion hit bank balance sheets hard; its effects look set to continue
Duck! Buy-side plan to dodge IM rules could backfire
Three-quarters of phase six firms do not expect to exchange margin for at least six months
Ruble turmoil prompts calls to fix NDF contracts
Some market participants want to see offshore fixings as an option in all standard documentation
Boaz Weinstein picks Ukraine bonds as a tail-risk strategy
Saba Capital bought debt for as little as 20 cents on the dollar, anticipating explosive payoff
Lack of supply keeps short-end euro rates vol high
Hedge funds and corporates rush to hedge potential rises in euro interest rates – but sellers aren’t there, say traders
LGIM blasts ‘dangerous’ netting of short positions on carbon emitters
Netting shorts on big polluters distracts investors from task of persuading firms to slow climate change