Fischette was leading SocGen’s preparations for mandatory US Treasury and repo clearing, which will come into effect later ...

Proposals by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to encourage greater use of single-sided trade reporting look set to disappoint both investors and dealers in the country’s market. Buy-side ...

Customer funds at HSBC Securities USA spiked 33% in the second half of January, capping a volatile month in which futures commission merchants (FCMs) collected near-record resources from futures and ...

The Chinese renminbi was only a few years ago considered among the most actively traded currencies in foreign exchange options. But volumes have collapsed over the past year, as the People’s Bank of ...

Two regulators in Europe share a vision to simplify their almost identical trade reporting regimes. Both are starting at the same point and looking ahead to the same end, so why they have set off on ...

Itaú Unibanco reduced its Common Equity Tier 1 (CET1) capital ratio by 1.2 percentage points in the fourth quarter of 2025, marking its largest quarterly drop since Q1 2020.

The European Securities and Market Authority (Esma) plans to publish a supervisory briefing along with questions and answers ...

Market participants have warned the Bank of England against a blanket mandatory clearing regime for gilt repo, arguing that a ...

Insurance broker Lockton saw premiums across its cyber portfolio drop 11% in 2025. The first half of the year saw the sharpest reductions, with more moderate decreases in the second half. Lockton ...

Pietro Rossi had a problem. An insurance company needed a model that could price bonds based on the likelihood of changes in credit ratings. The standard, off-the-shelf models are based on probability ...

Pre‑crisis, Fannie and Freddie hedged large duration mismatches by shorting Treasuries, shorting futures, paying fixed on ...

In December last year, Swiss investment firm Ram Active Investments created the genesis of what it hopes might become a new ...