Duncan Wood
Global editorial director, Risk.net
Duncan Wood is the London-based global editorial director, promoted to this role at the start of 2019. Prior to this, Duncan was editor-in-chief of Risk.net from 2015, with a remit to lead the editorial reorganisation of the website and its print titles. Duncan had been editor of Risk magazine since July 2011. He rejoined Risk as European editor in October 2009, having originally worked for Risk and Asia Risk in London and Hong Kong as a writer and researcher between 1998 and 2000.
In the intervening years, Duncan was news editor for the Oliver Wyman-founded online start-up ERisk.com. He also worked freelance for six years while living in Germany, with his work appearing in Euromoney, Financial News, IFR, and The Wall Street Journal, as well as Risk magazine and its sister titles.
Duncan has written about derivatives and risk throughout his 17-year career in journalism. He is a Neal Awards finalist, and has also won Incisive Media’s journalist and editor of the year awards.
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Articles by Duncan Wood
Libor death threatens to blow hole in hedges
Isda AGM: BlackRock, Fed stress need for fallbacks to marry up across rates universe
Basel’s Coen warns on FRTB complexity
Isda AGM: Regulators may consider “simpler and more robust” approaches when finalising rules this year
Isda chair on the swaps market’s power shift
A decade ago, dealers held 18 of 19 board seats – but crisis has forced trade body to change
Fed vs Fed: central bank faces traps of its own making
Fed’s balance sheet normalisation goal set to collide with its banking system resilience aims
Buyer beware: the FX code has not gone far enough
New standards for currency dealers have brought some big improvements, but many practices remain hazy
Now casting: options traders needed for disaster movie
Gamma deserves share of spotlight in volatility drama
LCH hires Goldman MD for rates role
New appointee replaces John Horkan, promoted to group COO last month
JP Morgan’s CRO on the bank’s six buckets of risk
Risk30: From loan losses to electromagnetic pulses, JPMorgan Chase has a place for it
JP Morgan CRO: CCPs need extra tail-risk buffers
Bail-in capital would help avoid contagion, says JPMorgan Chase's Ashley Bacon, in an interview with Risk.net
Nex’s Spencer on tech, Brexit and the UK’s identity crisis
Risk30: Icap founder fears return of exchange controls under a Labour government
Fed’s Powell on Libor reform, repo and clearing
Risk30: Market doesn’t need to “clear all US dollars in US and all euros in eurozone” says next Fed chair
The future of risk in 10 interviews: volatility, liquidity and tech
Fed’s Powell, JP Morgan CRO, Bridgewater co-CEO all feature in upcoming profiles
UBS’s Athanasopoulos on volatility, Mifid and hedging by machine
Risk30 profile: Athanasopoulos sees opportunities to cut hedging costs
ECB tells IMA banks to apply before rules are complete
Dealers criticise “unreasonable” timetable for FRTB model approvals, revealed in September call
Capital rules may be too risk-sensitive, Basel fears
Complexity is slowing roll-out of standards, says Basel Committee deputy
SG loses veteran global markets sales head
El-Asmar’s role being temporarily covered by markets head, Frank Drouet
Mixed motives threaten messy outcome in euro clearing row
Stability, oversight, Parisian ambition, repo haircuts: LCH is under attack from all sides
Dislocation policy: LCH exodus risks CCP basis blow-out
Questions about post-Brexit status of UK CCP could spark mass migration – and severe volatility
LCH users weigh early exit as fears grow of EU ban
Two CCPs report interest from LCH customers; banks expect first book transfers in early 2018
US learns to play the Basel game
Mnuchin report marks a US regulatory shift – from leadership to gamesmanship
World Bank bets on compression for EM currencies
NY-based start-up LMRKTS gets backing to support illiquid markets
Corlytics: data reveals least-predictable regulators
Regtech start-up says NY watchdog’s record has prompted banks to retreat