Buy side
Tradeweb reveals package trading for swaps and bonds
New tool offers pricing and trading of sterling swap-bond combo
Buy side seeks more clarity on FX trade rejects
Schroders and BoE criticise code mish-mash, as Investment Association presses for standardisation
Buy-side market risk management product of the year: Imagine Software
Asia Risk Technology Awards 2019
Patchy grasp of Libor reform worries Asia lenders
Widespread lack of understanding could hinder renegotiation of loan terms
Structured products – The ART of risk transfer
Exploring the risk thrown up by autocallables has created a new family of structured products, offering diversification to investors while allowing their manufacturers room to extend their portfolios, writes Manvir Nijhar, co-head of equities and equity…
CME-LCH basis collapses amid rates downturn
Brexit and recent LCH initial margin raise could also be factors
The rise of the robot quant
The latest big idea in machine learning is to automate the drudge work in model-building for quants
AQR takes step into exotic trend following
$200-billion quant firm joins those plugging new take on strategy that’s struggled
How AI could tear up risk modelling canon
BlackRock, MSCI, LFIS among firms looking to replace traditional, linear risk models
A tech-driven transformation
A panel of experts explores how greater collaboration between risk and finance teams can garner significant benefits and add value, how technological innovation is making the regulatory landscape more complicated to navigate and produce transformative…
Risk and finance – Better together
Changing regulations and new accounting standards are creating enormous challenges for financial organisations. Thorsten Hein, principal product marketing manager, risk research and quantitative solutions at SAS, explores why, to successfully meet these…
JP Morgan AM creates Taiwan trading hub
New local centre aims to channel orders in bulk, cutting price slippage
One size does not fit all – Adapting to meet investment goals
Guillaume Arnaud, global head of quantitative investment strategies (QIS), and Sandrine Ungari, head of cross-asset quantitative research at Societe Generale, explore the benefits of QIS for investors, why flexibility is crucial for investors to meet…
Lessons from a decade of top 10 op risks
Constants and changes in Risk.net’s annual rankings spotlight common gaps in op risk management
Asset managers urged to sign global forex code
Firms risk hit to reputation by not committing to standards on market practice, investor says
Local Asian custodians not ready for IM phase five
Banks’ sluggish preparations for initial margin rules could hit buy-side clients
How does it look from space? Satellite surge to alter investing
Higher-frequency images set for use in entirely new ways and by more investors than before
Outsourcers eye bigger role in funds’ fixed income trading
Research suggests 20% of large asset managers will outsource part of overall trading by 2022