Swaps
Podcast: Mats Kjaer on how trades affect the balance sheet
Bloomberg quant has developed a balance-sheet model for XVA pricing
In the balance redux
Mats Kjaer developes a dynamic balance-sheet pricing model for valuation adjustments
Brexit disruption, fire sales and climate risk
The week on Risk.net, October 7–11, 2019
Swaps data: are the new RFRs on track to replace Libor?
Progress on volumes of SOFR and Sonia swaps and futures
Realising opportunities while managing conduct risk
As efforts to transition from Libor to risk-free rates ramp up, Maria Blanco and Nassim Daneshzadeh, partners in PwC’s US and UK financial services practices, discuss two critical and interconnected strategies that are front and centre for PwC clients
ESG investing: It’s not just great to be good
Investing according to environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria can be done in various ways, with continuing development of filters and ways of analysing companies. As the market in ESG indexes and investments linked to sustainability matures,…
€STR swap trading gets under way
HSBC and JP Morgan strike first swap linked to the new euro short-term rate
Ice swap rate failure disrupts exotics desks
Dollar version of rate wasn’t published on nine out of 22 working days in August
Looking forward to backward‑looking rates
Interbank offered rates are critical in the world of contracts and derivatives, acting as reference rates in millions of financial contracts and with a total market exposure in the hundreds of trillions of dollars. Bloomberg explores why offering…
Libor transition and implementation – Covering all bases
Sponsored Q&A
Volume-starved SOFR leaves quant hankering for data
At T. Rowe Price, a top quant is tired of SOFR being “yanked around by the liquidity premium”
Renminbi contracts grow share of interest rate derivatives turnover
Instruments denominated in non-G10 currencies accounted for 3.8% of average daily turnover in April 2019
Short-term contracts dominate interest rate derivatives turnover
Overnight index swaps made up 31.5% of daily average turnover in April
LCH sets €STR swap clearing launch date
Clearing house to offer the swaps from October 21, discounted at Eonia
Eurex to launch cross-currency swap clearing ‘within weeks’
Clearing service will target dealer-to-dealer trades before later rolling out to clients
Patchy grasp of Libor reform worries Asia lenders
Widespread lack of understanding could hinder renegotiation of loan terms
Singapore looks to establish term RFR by 2020
Swaps linked to overnight rate will help create term structure, says industry committee member
Brexit flips LCH-Eurex basis
LCH-Eurex basis has inverted on buy-side flows, hitting –1.3bp at July low
Evaluating the impact of Libor fallback
The planned discontinuation of Libor and other interbank offer rates (Ibors) in 2022 will affect a large number of existing financial contracts based on these benchmarks. According to some estimates, Libor-based contracts – such as interest rate swaps,…
BAML leads US G-Sibs on swaps exposures to hedge funds
Bank has seen net current credit exposures to hedge funds rise 231% in three years
Swaps between UK banks and foreign firms climb in Q2
Total value of derivatives assets and liabilities with overseas lenders hits £2.09 trillion
Cleared swaps surge $6.6trn at US G-Sibs in Q2
Cleared swaps accounted for 54% of G-Sib notionals in Q2
Dealers dip toe into Sonia swaptions market
NatWest and HSBC print trades, Barclays offers prices