Custody
Assets under custody creep up at BNY, JP and State Street
Across the eight US systemically important banks, custody assets rose 27% year on year
Initial margin – Special report 2021
With many phase five firms in limbo, this special report assesses the issues and key challenges involved, and reveals the changing strategies of firms in meeting their IM responsibilities
Quant fund aims to tame bitcoin, and 39 other digital assets
Ex-Morgan Stanley, Winton vets reimagine institutional risk management for volatile crypto markets
A bitcoin ETF could threaten the world’s biggest crypto fund
Regulated funds may suck away demand for Grayscale’s off-exchange investment trusts
Non-cleared margin logjam looms after squandered delay
Fewer than half of phase five firms have submitted documentation necessary to open custody accounts
State Street to look after bitcoin, just don’t call it custody
The second-biggest custodian will provide “record-keeping services” for the unregulated asset
Diginex chief on taming the Wild East of cryptocurrencies
Asia Risk 25: Singapore-based digital exchange wants to bring respectability – and regulation – to the sector
Custodian of the year: BNP Paribas
Asia Risk Awards 2020
Simm may come with a side benefit – a common data standard
Buy-side firms using Acadiasoft for Simm calculations must adopt the ORE XML data format
EC: No plans to delay IM phase five
EC official says Europe will go ahead with phase five initial margin requirements set to come into effect in September
Custody battle: competing tensions put IM prep in jeopardy
Conflicting custody interests and delayed docs call IM phase five readiness into question
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…
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
Substitutability cap spares JP Morgan higher Basel G-Sib score
JP Morgan could be in higher G-Sib bucket with cap removed
BNY Mellon leads US custody banks’ assets increase
Total Auca stood at $94.4 trillion at end-September
Clearstream, Euroclear eye buy-side bonanza as IM rules loom
Depositories offer access to automated margining in different ways, but each faces challenges
Custodian of the year: BNP Paribas Securities Services
Asia Risk Awards 2019
Buy side continues with IM prep despite delays
Firms looking at custodian types, docs and trading strategies to optimise margin
Margin reform – From challenge to opportunity
SmartStream Technologies explores how, as new initial margin regulations from the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision and the International Organisation of Securities Commissions become a pressing concern for more firms, technology service providers…
State Street falls behind in the custody assets race
The gap between BNY Mellon and State Street rose to $2.8 trillion at end-June
CFTC commissioner backs non-cleared margin docs relief
Stump calls for US to enact BCBS-Iosco $50m threshold for operational requirements
Local Asian custodians not ready for IM phase five
Banks’ sluggish preparations for initial margin rules could hit buy-side clients