Singapore
Environmental products house of the year: ENGIE
Energy giant signs raft of forward-thinking environmental deals in Apac
Global OTC derivatives jump €72trn in 2024
Europe, UK, Canada and China hit record highs, while US banks pull back
CCP default funds 35% larger than on eve of pandemic
Sixteen out of 25 clearing services had bigger buffers heading into the recent tariff turmoil compared to Q4 2019
Singaporean banks see surge in systemic risk indicators
2024 figures show underwriting activity spike across the board
SGX suffered five-hour op failure from CrowdStrike outage
First major service disruption at CCP’s Central Depository service in nine years
Thin-skinned: are CCPs skimping on capital cover?
Growth of default funds calls into question clearers’ skin in the game
Basel III slashes $78bn in RWAs from top Singapore banks
Credit and operational risk recalibrations fuel double-digit falls at DBS, OCBC and UOB
CCPs’ skin in the game drops to historic low
Clearing members bear increasing load, analysis of 15 clearing houses shows
Nine jurisdictions yet to finalise Basel III rules
Turkey and South Africa worst laggards, with no final drafts published
Derivatives house of the year, Singapore: OCBC Bank
Asia Risk Awards 2024
Best structured products support system: Goldhorse Capital – Extramile
Goldhorse Capital – a Hong Kong-headquartered fintech platform now making waves across Asia’s structured products market – wins Best structured products support system at this year’s Asia Risk Awards
SGX-DC’s prefunded resources short of stressed losses 37 days in Q2
Latest round of shorftalls linked to double-member default lay bare lack of Cover 2 requirement
People: SocGen’s Farah replaces Salorio, Deutsche makes credit hire, and more
Latest job changes across the industry
LCR drops to multi-year lows at OCBC, UOB
Higher wholesale funding outflows partly responsible for reduction in liquidity ratios
New fee plans for FXGO rile dealers
Bloomberg plans to charge spot FX market-makers from next year
Coex Partners hires former Citi head of FX Apac sales
Matt Long joins Coex in Singapore to oversee FX execution and trading strategy for regional clients
Rates markets rattled as tech outage hits broker pricing feeds
Dealers widened spreads and pulled live curves after TP Icap’s pricing feeds went offline
AI, quantum computing and tokenisation set to transform finance – Menon
But significant barriers remain preventing the technologies from unlocking their full potential
Cecilia Skingsley on monetary policy tech and a unified ledger
BIS Innovation Hub head discusses tokenisation, CBDCs and AI’s ‘black box problem’
Singapore Exchange to return to short-term rates market
SGX president Syn hails new Sora and Tona futures as the “missing chunk of the rates complex”
Asia moves: senior hires at Millennium, Citi, SMBC and more
Latest job news from across the industry