Risk magazine
Currencies flow market-maker of the year: XTX Markets
Risk Awards 2017: New-style market-maker defends old-fashioned virtues
Sovereign risk manager of the year: Treasury Directorate of Slovenia
Risk Awards 2017: ‘Visionary’ exercise required debt buybacks, new issuance and swap unwinds on the same day
Equities flow market-maker of the year: Citadel Securities
Risk Awards 2017: Chicago firm is trying to make the New York Stock Exchange more robust
Quant of the year: Jean-Philippe Bouchaud
Risk Awards 2017: Physicist takes on classic models with data and empirical research
Insurer deal of the year: Swiss Re and Credit Suisse
Risk Awards 2017: Insurer builds $1.9 billion buffer of off-balance-sheet rainy-day capital
Credit derivatives house of the year: Citi
Risk Awards 2017: US bank racks up $500 billion in book deals, $9 billion in CDS basis trades
OTC trading platform of the year: trueEX
Risk Awards 2017: Innovation gives start-up Sef a foothold – and has forced incumbents to change
LCH platform to provide risk calculations for margin hub
SwapAgent agrees to send standardised sensitivities for bilateral trades to AcadiaSoft for IM calls
Buy-side firms seek ‘urgent’ VM relief
Two-thirds of firms have not signed any CSAs that comply with the new rules
FVA: off the mark
With adjustments to increase, Darrell Duffie says dealers should improve weak valuation practices
Indirect clearing rules too demanding, warn EU regulators
EBA and Esma call for clarity on capital relief for exposures to clearing members
Top 10 operational risks for 2017
Risk.net presents the top 10 operational risks of 2017, as chosen by risk practitioners
The right strategy for a head start on FRTB
Sponsored Q&A: Murex
Non-cleared margin requirements: The top five considerations
Sponsored feature: TriOptima
Massad: cost-benefit bill makes CFTC rulemaking 'very difficult'
Departing chairman says the CFTC already does “a good job” of analysing costs
Cyber is top op risk for 2017, say CROs
This year's Top 10 Operational Risks survey highlights sharp rise in geopolitical risk following Brexit and Trump election
Hidden benefits of the Fed’s model validation push
Incidents such as the London Whale losses show an overhaul of model validation should be welcomed, not maligned
Giancarlo to overhaul Sef rules if given CFTC reins
Acting chairman says all methods of execution should be permitted on Sefs
FRTB will spark rise in basis risk, firms warned
Dealers using standardised approach may be incentivised to push clients towards less precise hedges
LCH to clear single-name CDSs for US clients
Paris-based CDSClear already in discussions to onboard its first US FCM
Goldman’s mortgage mis-selling fine tops 2016 op risk losses
Legal settlements with US regulators dominate the year's biggest operational risk charges
JP Morgan to join Goldman in opening up risk system
Athena platform – built for JP Morgan's traders – could be available to clients in 2018
Fresh Priips objections reignite timing fears
Supervisors' concerns could delay adoption and put pressure on implementation timeline