Inflation
Inflation derivatives house of the year: Citi
Risk Awards 2026: US bank gets CPI swaption market off the ground and expands cross-market trading capabilities
UBS sterling rates head joins RBC Capital Markets
Ian Hale joins the Canadian bank as head of European inflation trading
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of statistics agency chief as an assault on US institutional integrity; for others it offers a chance to throw off outdated methods
Judy Shelton on gold, tariffs and where the Fed went wrong
Potential successor to Jerome Powell makes the case for cutting rates and tamping down dollar volatility
Central bank watch: Biased to ease, for now
A mid-year review of the monetary policy outlook for G10 central banks, India, China and South Korea
Navigating volatile markets: a rule book for fixed income investors
A framework that measures indicators to assess investment in US Treasuries, US credit, European debt and emerging markets debt
Investors dip a toe back into Tips despite April losses
US inflation-linked bonds back in vogue as stagflation hedge
Deutsche’s Americas CRO on risk-taking in choppy markets
Risk Live Boston: Risk managers must stay alive to sudden market moves, but volatility can also bring opportunity, says Jonathan Hummel
‘Trump slump’ hedges rise on rate cut fears
One dealer notes fivefold increase in number of clients hedging against possibility of faster rate cuts
Japanese banks’ bond strategies diverge amid interest rate shifts
MUFG increases JGB portfolio duration to four-year high, while SMFG and SMTG take opposite bet
2025 capital market expectations: slowing but not sinking
Monetary policy is the governor of the relationship between growth and inflation
Risk.net’s top 10 investment risks for 2025
Fresh concerns this year include a trade war, a stock market crash and growing social discord
Retail payment technology and money demand: evidence from China
Using evidence from China between 1999 and 2020, the authors investigate the impact of retail payment technology on money demand.
Inflation derivatives house of the year: Natixis
Risk Awards 2025: French bank’s hedge fund push boosts its flow standing and creates repack risk offsets
Thames Water: a handy guide for worried counterparties
The UK’s largest water company – now junk-rated – has £1.3bn in swaps liabilities. Dealers ought to be safe, but face a host of headaches and questions
How steepener trades burned hedge funds, and what happened next
Delays to central bank rate cuts torpedo popular trade, causing funds to pull capital – to the chagrin of sell-side desks
Bank treasuries should help monitor hidden optionality – JPM exec
Risk Live: JP Morgan ALM structurer calls for greater treasury involvement in product design
Decoding the decoupling in US and eurozone inflation
ECB rates cut and Fed’s refusal to follow suit point to differing fundamentals in stateside and EU economies
How Argentina’s financial tango could become a dance of death
Central bank and government’s unholy alliance is storing up further trouble for economy
FX books bulge in quant investment field
Carry strategies attract bulk of interest; banks eye growth in volatility, intraday and emerging market replication
Decades of history says you can beat high inflation with quality
Factors such as momentum and value generally outperform the market irrespective of inflation, but new research suggests quality stocks are best when prices are rising rapidly