Asset management
smartTrade eyes role as direct streaming linchpin
Vendor plans to tap growing demand for direct API trading solutions across asset classes
Franklin Templeton closes $5bn yen options book
Counterparty Radar: Asset manager’s bets on USD/JPY soured as yen weakened through Q4
Ellington spinout hopes to ease whole-loan investing
Data hurdles have frustrated insurers as they look to increase allocations
Short dollar bets make cautious return after safe-haven rush
Cautious USD-weakening positions re-emerge despite return of natural ‘dollar smile’ hedge
Repo market exposed to $100 billion-plus cyber tail risk, OFR warns
Concentration and time-of-day vulnerabilities amplify impact of extreme outcomes
Industry frowns on FCA’s single-sided trade reporting efforts
Buy side warns UK attempt to ease Mifir burden may miss target; dealers aren’t happy either
FSB chief defends global non-bank regulation drive
Schindler slams ‘misconception’ that regulators intend to impose standardised bank-like rules
US mutual funds slash short euro positions at record pace
Counterparty Radar: Pimco cut $4.6bn of EUR/USD puts in Q3 amid changing stance on dollar direction
Multi-asset investing: capturing diversification and alpha in a complex market
How multi-asset and cross-asset strategies are redefining performance and scale across institutional portfolios
BlackRock appoints Pierre Sarrau as chief risk officer
Current CRO Edward Fishwick will be head of research at BlackRock’s RQA group
Liquidity in private markets: the structural and data challenge
How structural and data-driven innovations are converging to address the liquidity challenge in private markets
Quantcast Master’s Series: Petter Kolm, Courant Institute
The NYU programme is taught almost exclusively by elite financial industry practitioners
Pimco piled into euro put options in Q2
Counterparty Radar: EUR/USD buying spree takes Pimco’s FX options book to $7 billion
Row breaks out over cause of FX settlement fails
One European bank blames T+1 for a 50% jump in FX fails, but industry groups dispute the claims
BlackRock and DRW execs bullish on tokenisation potential
DRW’s Don Wilson expects every instrument to be traded on-chain in five years’ time
Digital asset risk management
Managing digital asset risk using an integrated, composable framework
ANZ’s FX forwards surge with Pimco
Counterparty Radar: Australian bank becomes top counterparty to the asset manager after huge jumps in cable and EUR/USD
Franklin Templeton’s great DeFi migration
TradFi’s money and DeFi’s tech will inevitably combine, says asset manager’s futurist-in-residence
Has US dollar hedging hype faded?
While the initial wave of real money USD hedging flows disappointed some dealers, many believe there is more to come
Tidal rides retail boom to lead in single-stock options
Counterparty Radar: Volatility-selling ETF firm accounts for half of trading among US funds
Mutual funds were USD bulls going into April’s tariff chaos
Counterparty Radar: Positioning in Q1 reflected market sentiment that tariffs would lead to a dollar rally