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Financial markets are being reshaped by regulatory change, evolving market structures, new technologies and shifting macroeconomic conditions. From changes in clearing and settlement to the growth of digital assets and electronic trading, firms are adapting how they trade, price and manage risk.
Risk.net explores the latest developments across fixed income, foreign exchange and equities, including market structure and liquidity, trading technology, benchmarks, digital assets, clearing and post-trade, and innovations in pricing and modelling.
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Shining a light on the dollar repo market
The US dollar repo market underpins global liquidity, yet limited transparency obscures emerging funding pressures and systemic risks
The interplay between liquidity and collateral
The evolution of financing solutions as institutional investors raise and preserve cash
Digital asset and crypto compliance: new risks and regulatory expectations
How leading institutions are approaching cross-asset oversight and building more resilient, future-ready compliance frameworks
Financing Connect: real-time optimisation in private credit financing
J.P. Morgan’s Financing Connect, part of its Vida platform, reflects a shift towards structured data and scenario-driven analytics
Collateral crunch: four FX settlement fails, and how to fix them
Addressing post-trade failures can ease the FX collateral crunch and reduce risk
What’s next for Treasury clearing? Cleared buy-side tri-party enhancements at DTCC
Innovations to improve margin efficiency for the buy side and streamline done-away activity with tri-party repo enhancements to FICC’s sponsored and agent clearing services
Fireside chat: Advancing FX clearing for safer settlement
Developments in FX clearing are supporting the creation of a safer, more scalable settlement infrastructure
Integration strengthens e-trading in persistently volatile markets
Survey reveals that traders are grappling with daily volatility, while technology outranks liquidity as the top market structure concern
Smarter margin. Clearer insight. Diversify liquidity.
Analysis, survey findings and practitioner perspectives examining the role of non-cash VM collateral, the operational challenges and whether tri-party infrastructure can support the next phase of change
The changing shape of variation margin collateral
Financial firms are open to using a wider variety of collateral when posting VM on uncleared derivatives, but concerns are slowing efforts to use more non-cash alternatives
Repo clearing: expanding access, boosting resilience
Michel Semaan, head of RepoClear at LSEG, discusses evolving requirements in repo clearing
From inertia to acceleration: scaling tri-party VM and collateral reuse
Catalysing network effects and expanding non-cash VM at scale
Japan’s yen swaps go global
JSCC isn’t just clearing swaps, it is clearing the way for the next stage of Japan’s financial evolution
LSEG streamlines post-trade efficiency across cleared and uncleared markets
LSEG’s Post Trade Solutions extends clearing-style efficiencies to bilateral markets, helping Apac clients navigate rising margin and risk management pressures
Rethinking credit risk
The challenges confronting credit risk leaders – from shifting macro dynamics and sovereign pressures to growing counterparty complexity
Inside the 2025 BIS FX survey: dollar wobbles, trading shifts and settlement risks
BIS’s triennial survey shines a light on the forces shaping global FX markets
Fitch Solutions Toolkit for Credit Risk Leaders: enhancing credit risk management, mitigation and strategic decision-making
The Fitch Solutions Toolkit for Credit Risk Leaders is a practical guide to enhancing visibility, agility and control across the credit risk workflow
How next-generation exchange infrastructure is redefining global market access
Designed to reimagine market connectivity, GAN offers strategic significance for financial institutions, regulators and exchanges
BIS 2025 FX survey: What the results mean for global markets
Key findings from the BIS triennial FX and OTC derivatives survey
Fixed income ecosystem
Manage risk, uncover opportunity and make informed decisions with ICE’s end-to-end fixed income solutions
US Treasury clearing success depends on competition and choice
The origins of the forthcoming clearing mandate for US Treasury securities and details of the ICE clearing platform scheduled to launch by end of year