Liquidity
Limit band risks stale prices in 24/7 markets, SEC warned
Roundtable participants say proposed restrictions could leave stocks trading at unrealistic values
Four in five banks report breaching risk appetite in past year
Risk Benchmarking: Those reporting no breaches run skinnier appetite frameworks, despite similar governance mechanisms
SEB’s LCR drops to six-year low on corporate deposit surge
Temporary corporate inflows lift stressed outflows as lending as HQLAs stay flat
BofA’s Level 2 HQLAs triple in Q2
Less liquid assets make up highest share of buffer in three years
AmEx debuts with second-lowest unadjusted NSFR
Category II transition will likely reduce funding cushion from 2027
The evolution of stress testing: unlock one integrated balance sheet
Stress-testing moves from a periodic regulatory exercise to a continuous, strategic discipline that asks: how bad can it get – and do we have a plan to survive it?
Podcast: Alexander Barzykin on modelling FX market-making
HSBC quant discusses adverse selection, price reading and internal liquidity management
Critics say perps are all froth. The numbers suggest otherwise
Healthy open interest in perpetual futures with TradFi underlyings could threaten incumbent exchanges like CME and Eurex
Big investors turn to off-exchange prediction markets
Millions of OTC event contracts are being traded monthly, with individual deals as big as $10 million
Cross-border credit to the US hits highest since 2008
Milestone of crossing a fifth of GDP represents culmination of decade-long trend
Perps extend the menu to tempt TradFi diners
Expiry-less futures are spreading from bitcoin into gold, equities and FX. Institutions are watching, not buying
Optimal quoting under adverse selection and price reading
A market-making model is introduced to account for significant real-world effects
Banks join forces for stablecoin builds
Three regional consortia gain traction; SG and Standard Chartered stay on solo track
Digital deposits blunt India’s LCR overhaul
Higher run-off rates drive up stressed outflows at HDFC and ICICI, offsetting relief for wholesale funding
Barclays LCR hits three-year low as outflows rise
Net stressed outflows rise £9.4 billion while liquid assets hold steady
BoE’s crisis lending plan hits buffers
Scepticism greets regulator’s proposal to increase releasable leverage capital buffers
AI agents for cash management in payment systems
The authors asses to what extent generative artificial intelligence models can assist with high-level intraday liquidity-management tasks in wholesale payment systems.
Bank vs non-bank: FX’s two-tier reality
CME and LSEG data show banks provide sticky and broad liquidity, while non-banks cling tightly to the price
CCP liquid resources pivot to secured commercial bank cash
Eurex, CME and ECC drive jump in reverse repo-linked liquidity buffers in Q1
CCP liquidity risk measures hit highs in Q1
LCH, HKEX, JSCC and OCC set payment obligation records
Tailoring tails within the mixture model framework
Introducing a data generator mixing Gaussian and Student-t distributions to capture fat tails