Asset management
European investors ramp up FX hedging as ‘dollar smile’ fades
Analysts at one bank expect average hedge ratios to jump from 39% to 70% within six months
Top 10 operational risks for 2025
The biggest op risks as chosen by senior practitioners – and what they’re doing about them
NSCC liquidity shortfalls raise T+1 concerns
Lagging FX settlement processes could become a problem for clearing houses
Configuration and control: next-level risk analytics for alternative assets
The evolving needs of traditional and alternative asset industries
Futures gain ground in G10 FX pricing
Some market-makers believe contracts are now primary market price for Commonwealth currencies
Citi rolls out revamped SDP in emerging markets
Unified API will boost electronic pricing and automation for restricted currencies, says bank
Quants try investing like Socrates, with help from AI
Researchers are testing whether LLMs can use methods borrowed from ancient philosophy to answer complex questions
US MMFs tilted from repo to cash USTs in November
Outright allocations captured growing share of funds’ record cash pile
Acadian model detects gaps between climate goals and reality
Quant shop builds tool for net-zero alignment assessment, using NLP and Bayesian models
Investment house of the year: BlackRock
Risk Awards 2025: World’s largest investor is undergoing its biggest transformation in more than a decade
People: All fall in at Citi, TD turbulence, and more
Latest job changes across the industry
Chicago pits power IMC’s institutional options push
Talking Heads: IMCX lures 100 asset managers, while Dash partnership bolsters retail execution
Are investors betting on Kamala or Donald? Neither
Hedge funds and others shun election-based trades and rely on existing hedges to guard against surprise market moves
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
No end of peer-to-peer demand for securities financing
After Archegos, buy side turns to fellow asset managers for diversity and liquidity in securities financing and repo
FX HedgePool extends credit intermediation beyond FX swaps
New service lets buy side trade spot and forwards with LPs without prior credit ties, including non-banks
JPM exec: post-Archegos disclosure rules tough in practice
Banks may struggle to get required details from clients under Basel proposals, says reg affairs executive
Franklin Templeton steps back into FX options
Former biggest user of the instrument among US mutual funds returns with $7.6bn of USD/JPY strategies
Pimco doubles down on FX forwards trades in Q1
Counterparty Radar: Pimco accounted for nearly 60% of all notionals added by mutual funds
Asia moves: Senior hires at HKEX, UBS and more
Latest job news from across the industry
Napier Park to increase investment in bank risk transfers
Hedge fund sees secular trend in lenders offloading credit risk, and plans to be part of it