Buy side
Fund managers look beyond Hong Kong as instability bites
Contingency planning for Hong Kong protests could turn into structural shift for asset management industry
CFTC urged to cement relief from a non-cleared margin rule
Industry seeks permanent right to specify two minimum transfer amounts: for initial and variation margin
Trading venues decry disruptors as MTF battle heats up
Unregulated tech vendors accused of operating as de facto venues; a claim dismissed as “entirely outrageous”
Private equity investors see savings in AI
Unigestion, Schroders using machine learning to avoid ‘obvious losers’ among private equity firms
Quant funds look to AI to master correlations
Machine learning shows promise in grouping assets better, predicting regime shifts
Dark materials: how one academic is delving into data
David Hand shines a light on dark data and the dangers of distortion by absence
US firms must rerun non-cleared margin test in March
Proposed CFTC calculation delay offers in-scope firms chance to trade out of phase five compliance
Smarter trading in a fragmented world
FX Week recently hosted a webinar in partnership with Refinitiv to ask foreign exchange industry leaders to discuss geopolitical challenges, market changes and developments, and evolving technologies, and how they have shaped forex markets in Asia
Coping with uncleared margin rules – the tricks, traps and tools
A unique insight on the evolving UMR strategies of 110 banks and buy‑side firms
Initial margin – A regulatory bottleneck
With the recent announcement of an extended preparation period for those smaller entities needing to post initial margin under the uncleared margin rules, the new timetable could cause a bottleneck for firms busy repapering derivatives contracts linked…
Will uncleared margin rules change the FX landscape?
As the next phases of uncleared margin rules come into force, there will be an economic driver for more clearing of FX. By Phil Hermon, Executive Director of FX Products at CME Group
Stock-picking finds unlikely champion in ex-Winton CIO
Matthew Beddall’s Havelock restyles value investing for the big data age
IM phase five – Smaller on bang, bigger on complexity
The initial margin ‘big bang’ may have been reined in by last-minute relief, but dealers aiming to get hundreds of buy-side firms over the documentation finish line by September 1, 2020 fear a compliance bottleneck
How pre-trade IM calculation can optimise and reduce collateral drag
With firms under pressure to make their systems compliant with uncleared margin rules (UMR), the increase in margin requirements has put further strain on the availability of high-quality liquid assets. Mohit Gupta, senior product specialist at Cassini…
OTC trading platform of the year: Tradeweb
Risk Awards 2020: To keep volumes growing, platform had to confront “incumbent’s dilemma”
The human touch: SMCR extension reaches smaller firms
Extended to nearly 50,000 firms, UK regime aims to pinpoint responsibility, from money laundering to #MeToo
Why Europe’s markets might need Mifid III
Lawmakers leaning towards small-scale review, others call for fuller rewrite
Buy side still not adopting global forex code – Debelle
Forex committee wants asset managers to embrace standards; shifts focus to algo trading
MVA taking the long road to acceptance
Four years on, the adjustment is still not a standard part of non-cleared swap pricing
Clearing house of the year: LCH
Risk Awards 2020: CCP conquers Brexit threat to deliver banner year for RFRs, margin and forex
Bad clocks, Ion knocked, Sef-based swaps
The week on Risk.net, November 16–22, 2019
Regulatory relief, but the pressure is still on
As the new compliance schedule for IM requirements on non-cleared derivatives comes into force, IHS Markit’s director, derivatives data and valuation services, Kashyap Sheth outlines what to expect next
JP Morgan debuts Nexus spinoff for hedge fund exposure
Bank launches matchmaking service for lonely hedge funds and return-hungry investors