Fixed income
Plumbing problems in the repo market
On September 17, three banks may have sucked up nearly a quarter of money market fund cash
BlackRock, State Street, AB are making AI work in risk
Risk USA: Fund managers are using new technology to measure liquidity risk and spot their own errors
Asia moves: HSBC hires Singapore liquidity chief, StanChart picks Asean head, and more
Latest job changes across industry
Interest rate, credit risk push BNP Paribas’ VAR up 25%
French bank also reported a VAR breach in Q3
Best CVA practices in Japan
At a recent roundtable in Tokyo, banks and regulators discussed progress on credit valuation adjustment (CVA). While, in many respects, the work towards implementing best practices in the country is on track, challenges remain in resourcing and…
Companies delay climate policy action at their peril
Failure to take immediate action on the proposals set out in the Paris Agreement on climate change could cost approximately $1.2 trillion over the next 15 years in policy risk costs. Oliver Marchand, co-founder of Carbon Delta and executive director of…
Fixed income portfolio trading sees rapid take-up
Tighter spreads and ease of execution spur European firms to trade baskets of bonds
Poor data hurting buy side’s automated bond trading
Spotty bond liquidity creates gaps in trading data that could harm best execution, insiders warn
ETF strategies to manage market volatility
Money managers and institutional investors are re-evaluating investment strategies in the face of rapidly shifting market conditions. Consequently, selective genres of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are seeing robust growth in assets. Hong Kong Exchanges…
Buy-side trading system of the year: MarketAxess
Asia Risk Technology Awards 2019
Market-maker of the year: Jane Street
Asia Risk Awards 2019
Quants miss the ‘obvious’: a safe-haven factor in bonds
After carry, the flight-to-quality factor – the ‘elephant in the room’ – is a key driver, a study says
At CIBC, commodity, forex and rate risks raise VAR 12%
Market risk capital requirement jumps to C$695 million on value-at-risk surge
Generali pivots from corporate bonds
Company debt makes up 31.6% of life insurance investment portfolio; 28.1% of property and casualty portfolio
BNPP’s VAR sinks on prop trading exit, calmer markets
Risk of loss down 17% quarter-on-quarter
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…
Asia moves: New CEOs at Credit Suisse and ANZ, Invesco gets new MD, and more
Latest job changes across the industry
ETF investing – Building better portfolios
At the Asia ETF Forum 2019, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX) welcomed industry experts from around the region to six key Asian exchange-traded fund (ETF) cities, offering attendees an updated view on the growing ETF market in Asia. This article…
UBS unleashes Orca for rates clients
Machine learning algo trawls liquidity pools to slash US Treasury trading costs
Outsourcers eye bigger role in funds’ fixed income trading
Research suggests 20% of large asset managers will outsource part of overall trading by 2022
China Minsheng and SocGen team up for quant index product
CMBC Macro 1 signal index attracts $580 million as investors adapt to products without performance guarantees