Articles by Celeste Tamers
Allen & Overy adds to CLO team with new hires
Firm poaches five lawyers from Milbank as it expands structured credit team
Hot topic: SEC climate disclosure rule divides industry
Proposal likely to flounder on First Amendment concerns, lawyers believe
Bond funds made losing derivatives bets as rates climbed
Some managers’ use of interest rate derivatives looks like ill-timed speculation, study finds
The unknown risk on the flip side of the basis trade
US mutual funds have amassed record notionals in Treasury futures that in some cases exceed their AUM
SEC expected to protect CRT in conflicts of interest rule
Decision could come as early as today; high hopes for credit risk transfer exemption
SEC to delay US Treasury clearing mandate, dealer rule
A final vote on proposed US Treasury market reforms is now expected in early 2024
People: Estrada, Horne out in Credit Suisse rout, Belsher to Barclays, and more
Latest job changes across the industry
Investors cheer Fed guidance on bank credit risk transfers
Institutions say clarification of regulations could jump-start US market
Could excessive regulation make bank stocks uninvestable?
JP Morgan's EMEA CFO says capital requirements will mean banks lose business to non-banks
Court showdown looms for SEC private adviser rules
Legal victory for the regulator would establish new powers of prohibition, critics claim
‘Restricted lists’ on private-equity backed loans irk investors
Privately owned companies are limiting who can buy their debt, hampering liquidity
How Bloomberg got liquidity seekers to trust its machine learning models
Recent liquidity squeezes have proved the worth of advanced models, argues the tech giant. Now the task is to explain their inner workings to machine learning sceptics
Iosco warns of leveraged loan ‘vulnerabilities’
As recovery rates plummet, report calls for clearer covenants and more transparency on addbacks
SEC rewrite of criteria for investor ‘group’ alarms buy-siders
Hedge funds fear it will freeze out activists and have chilling effect on everyday discussions
‘The nature of stress propagation has changed’
Leverage begets leverage, says BIS research chief Hyun Song Shin
Buy-siders cheer SEC climbdown on loans
Agency stays silent in court case considering whether syndicated loans are securities
Run risk on funds not a systemic issue, say market participants
FSB and Iosco are consulting on drive to make open-ended funds adopt anti-dilution tools
T+1 in the US to push ETF spreads wider
Settlement mismatch expected to raise creation and redemption costs
Partial relief for synthetic securitisation in final EU rules
Internal model banks will see punitive multiplier reduced, but standardised banks miss out
SEC plans ‘pose reverse-engineering threat to quant funds’
Managers say proposed disclosure rules would lead to less efficient markets
Hedge funds raise stakes in fight over dealer rule
Two prominent industry bodies file legal papers in key court case over SEC’s proposed extension of dealer definition
Inflation could persist ‘for a very long time’
Risk Live: Buy-side risk managers say stagflation threat remains
T+1 to increase cash drag and funding costs, investors warn
Faster settlement will create cash shortfalls for non-US asset managers
The tweet and the trust collapse: how banks can fall on a dime
In March’s market contagion, experts see lessons in the rapid erosion of confidence