Investment
Margin exchange threshold relief: get out of jail free?
‘Game-changing’ IM exchange threshold relief may not be the phase five free pass it first appears
Credit risk – The bank data challenge in frontier markets
As the regulatory net tightens, banks working in and across frontier regions are under pressure to source and maintain more accurate data in the assessment of counterparty credit risk, but some are investing in tools to tackle the problem
Asia moves: Natixis hires Asia M&A chief, Deutsche Bank picks north Asia head, and more
Latest job news across the industry
Neuberger Berman gets its Sherlock on
Asset manager deploys quant-cum-sleuth to sniff out portfolio risk
Fund managers look beyond Hong Kong as instability bites
Contingency planning for Hong Kong protests could turn into structural shift for asset management industry
Inside top CCPs’ default funds
Central banks favoured by CCPs to hold default resources
Asian investors primed to buy more CLOs, experts say
Liquidity and diversification are drivers for demand, after US loan market’s recovery from blip
Dark materials: how one academic is delving into data
David Hand shines a light on dark data and the dangers of distortion by absence
Smarter trading in a fragmented world
FX Week recently hosted a webinar in partnership with Refinitiv to ask foreign exchange industry leaders to discuss geopolitical challenges, market changes and developments, and evolving technologies, and how they have shaped forex markets in Asia
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…
Stock-picking finds unlikely champion in ex-Winton CIO
Matthew Beddall’s Havelock restyles value investing for the big data age
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
Asia moves: Soc Gen replaces Asia chief, Deutsche Bank appoints wealth management head, and more
Latest job changes across the industry
The Fundamentals of market risk rules
With the 2022 Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) deadline looming, banks are fast coming to grips with the amount of work still to be done to achieve a successful implementation
Competitive differentiation – Reaping the benefits of XVA centralisation
A forum of industry leaders discusses the latest developments in XVA and the strategic, operational and technological challenges of derivatives valuation in today’s environment, including the key considerations for banks looking to move to a standardised…
Sandbar's focus on idiosyncratic factors sets it apart from its peers in equity market‑neutral
With investors sometimes struggling to find hedge funds that deliver uncorrelated, consistent returns, Sandbar Asset Management stands out from its peers. Its success in running an equity market-neutral strategy is a reflection of its founder and chief…
EU funds buy €89bn of overseas debt in Q3
Net purchases year-to-date almost three times total transactions in 2018
Quants clone private equity: pale imitation or real deal?
Theory says replication can work, but investors are reluctant to give up private equity’s smoothed returns
Climate risk taxonomy close, but still a moving target – EC
FCA warns of ‘greenwashing’
Fed underscores run risk of corporate bond funds
Total AUM of junk bond and bank loan funds was around $350 billion in Q2 2019
Opening the buy-side liquidity pool
Vikash Rughani, business manager at triReduce and triBalance, outlines a new approach enabling buy- and sell-side participants to optimise the transition of legacy Libor over-the-counter swaps contracts to alternative reference rates
Securities lending down over 10% among US insurers in 2018
Firms stepped away from securities lending transactions and repo markets last year
Swiss banks ask, how about a magic trick?
Banks pull off an accounting trick – with the help of their regulator
