Interest rates
MUFG slashes JGB book by 27%
Second-quarter cuts lead to smallest AFS government bond portfolio since at least 2013
Fed’s new leverage ratio: the horse that never left the gate
Most of the biggest dealers aren’t leverage constrained now, and experts are sceptical that banks will use the extra capacity for Treasuries
Truist locks in $12bn long-term debt as rates hold high
Bank raises LTD and time deposits while slashing short-term borrowings
Barclays euro swap trading head departs
Ankur Aneja’s exit said to be unrelated to recent reports of job cuts
Investors hope US rate cuts will lower FX hedging costs
European investors in US assets set to boost hedge ratios as implied yields rise
Platforms expand portfolio trading to EGBs
Bloomberg and MTS to follow Tradeweb with extension of popular credit protocol
FMX set to extend trading hours for rates futures
New schedule matches CME’s hours, but some worry about clearing mismatch
High leverage in US REITs raises red flags, says FSB
Non-bank CRE investors at risk from falling prices and refinancing crunch
Simulation of Heston made simple
A new way to apply the classic stochastic volatility model is presented
Convexity adjustments à la Malliavin
This paper puts forward a novel means to approximate convexity adjustments in a general interest rate model using Malliavin calculcus.
Fixed income finesse: striking a balance amid shifting rates
An increasingly unpredictable economic environment leads investors to look for a wider range of products to satisfy evolving strategies
Barclays hires former Crédit Agricole swaptions head
Samy Ben Aoun joins bank as head of rates trading for Barclays Europe
Frustration grows over ‘messy’ active account rules
Isda AGM: Less than two months until deadline, firms seek clarity on threshold calculation and scope of exemptions
Standard Chartered taps Newman to head rates and FX trading
UBS veteran becomes latest fixed income trading exec to leave Swiss bank
After tariff rout, hedge funds revive euro rate steepeners
Dutch pension overhaul drives bets on euro rates curve steepening
Getting a handle on model parameters
Mean reversion in rate parameters opens the door to dimensionality reduction
Inside the week that shook the US Treasury market
Rates traders on the “scary” moves that almost broke the world’s safest and most liquid investment
The end of the world, or an artificial crisis?
Bimodal tariff threat leaves investors grappling with uncertainty
Trump tariffs turn swap spreads into ‘pain trade’
Hedge funds bet big on Treasuries to outperform swaps. The opposite happened.
Estimating mean reversions in interest rate models
The speed of factors’ mean reversion in rate models is estimated
Podcast: adventures in autoencoding
Trio of senior quants explain how autoencoders can reduce dimensionality in yield curves
Hedge funds flock to hybrids to trade macro uncertainty
Firms repurpose structure made popular by Trump trades last year
Surging gross repo costs highlight US dealers’ divergence on netting
Lack of offsetting in GAAP presentation leads BNY and Northern Trust to report paying double- or triple-digit rates on fed funds, repos
JSCC, DTCC government bond units see default funds surge
Member contributions hit multi-year highs in Q4