Data
Liquidity in private markets: the structural and data challenge
How structural and data-driven innovation are converging to address the liquidity challenge in private markets
Bringing trading-desk data into derivatives pricing models
PricingDirect’s new autocallable model, which reflects the shift towards data-driven transparency as firms rethink how they value complex derivatives
Fitch Solutions Toolkit for Credit Risk Leaders: enhancing credit risk management, mitigation and strategic decision-making
The Fitch Solutions Toolkit for Credit Risk Leaders is a practical guide to enhancing visibility, agility and control across the credit risk workflow
Robinhood looks to ‘Chaos Monkey’ for op resilience playbook
Risk Live North America: US broker is ditching emails, using chaos engineering and automating everything in sight
Fixed income ecosystem
Manage risk, uncover opportunity and make informed decisions with ICE’s end-to-end fixed income solutions
Technology product of the year: Murex
Murex’s MXGO: a preconfigured, market-ready treasury solution built on the powerful MX.3 platform
EU reporting revamp may end up costing banks
Esma’s review into trade reporting promised to cut reporting burden and save firms money. Dealers aren’t convinced.
The ‘get-out-of-debt’ card that may worry bond investors
A new paper analyses the controversial tool that governments may be forced to deploy to control borrowing costs
Why flows now rival fundamentals
Geography and market sentiment are having profound impacts on price action, says LMAX’s head of FX data
European regulator praises Japan’s ‘smart’ NMRF manoeuvre
Comments come after revelation that Nomura is able to reverse NMRF status for risk factors
DFAST fashion: emerging trends from 12 years of US stress tests
The banks that breach buffers, the assets that perform best under stress, and other insights from Dodd-Frank Act stress-testing exercises
The investors who aren’t fretting over Trump’s stat sulk
Some see dismissal of statistics agency chief as an assault on US institutional integrity; for others it offers a chance to throw off outdated methods
Untangling corporate actions data complexity
LSEG is developing AI capabilities and leveraging expert validation to bring structure and speed to corporate actions data
SRT growth raises fresh questions on valuation and risk
SRT growth and the implications for banks, investors and regulators
Saved by the Byrd? The fight over the OFR’s future
Dodd-Frank made it the premier data-grabber, and the financial world doesn’t like it
Nomura wins NMRF reprieve from Japan’s FSA
Relief granted due to scarcity of vendors offering pricing data for market risk models
A comprehensive explainable approach for imbalanced financial distress prediction
The authors suggest an explainable machine learning method for imbalanced financial distress prediction which uses extreme gradient boosting.
Cat on life support after appeals court ruling
Consolidated Audit Trail’s funding order setback could herald its demise
Removing the barriers to AI success
Addressing challenges of data quality and governance to scale AI for competitive advantage
Repricing risk in a global rate reset
Firms are reallocating risk exposure, evolving forecasting models and leveraging deep macroeconomic data to uncover patterns and challenge assumptions
More than half of banks manage change as an operational risk
Others are moving to incorporate it into risk taxonomies, although some now treat it as a cause, citing supervisory guidance