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Going it alone: Lombard Odier steers clear of investing crowd
Research head Tabachnik says strategies like intraday momentum are victims of their own popularity
Some dealers are much cheaper than others; now you know who
New system will name the three cheapest dealers for liquid securities and show how much they cost
Factor woes prove need for better timing – QuantZ’s Sharma
Investors should switch between factors as alphas change, says quant
Seismology models sound out safe ground for DG Partners
Quake technology helps quant firm time entry and exit points – and buck trend-following trend
CanDeal ideal: could Canada make a sea-change in e-trading?
E-trading firm aims to capture all Canada’s electronic fixed income trade, requiring a culture shift
Nordea CRO – a ‘controls freak’ meets Covid
Flexible checks and balances at bank's asset management arm kept risks within tolerance
Ex-SunGard chief Cris Conde’s random walk to fintech and beyond
Technologist talks artificial intelligence, angel investing and accidentally contributing to the Basel framework
BoE reassures foreign banks on post-Brexit booking models
EU banks that lost passporting rights after Brexit are unlikely to have to establish UK subsidiaries
The hidden effects of stress on risk takers
Trader turned neuroscientist urges financial firms to monitor trader physiology, hire fewer physicists
Inconsistent ESG scores force USS to make its own decisions
Pension fund needs ESG alternatives to bonds to help close its funding deficit
DBS chief executive on fighting tech disruptors with data
Asia Risk 25: Data and AI are top technology priorities for Singapore bank, says Piyush Gupta
Guy Debelle on the FX Global Code and the rise of the buy side
Asia Risk 25: Code’s creators considering updates to sections on last look and pre-hedging
Diginex chief on taming the Wild East of cryptocurrencies
Asia Risk 25: Singapore-based digital exchange wants to bring respectability – and regulation – to the sector
TradingHub: client data trove offers jump on market abuse
Surveillance firm already using aggregate info to tackle best execution questions
Asia edging towards integrated capital markets – SGX’s Loh
Asia Risk 25: full regional co-operation could still be 10 to 15 years away, says Singapore exchange head
Canada pension fund Hoopp goes cool on bonds
$70bn investor rethinks LDI strategy to take into account paltry yield from fixed income
Jerome Kemp on the skewed economics of clearing
Only Fed intervention prevented “a really big market disaster” during Covid, says derivatives veteran
Nordic noir: Swedish state pension fund’s outlook is austere
Sweden’s AP1 aims to ditch illiquid assets and target realistic returns with equities
SFC’s Alder looks to shake up liquidity rules post-Covid
Asia Risk 25: HK regulatory head says central banks must “never have to step in again” to bail out investors
Fulcrum hangs ESG designs on honing hard numbers
ESG risks will become part of investment and risk management processes across all funds at the firm
CalSTRS CIO: new derivatives needed to hedge ESG risks
Second-largest US pension fund has also reduced fixed income allocation to 12% as rates have fallen
Work needed on China financial reforms, says Liu Mingkang
Asia Risk 25: ex-head of China’s banking watchdog urges “rigorous” changes as country opens up to foreign investors
Q&A: Robert Litterman on the CFTC climate risk report
Chair of industry sub-committee – and famed quant – says carbon dividend plan essential to create right incentives
NYU’s Epstein on fear and complacency in the age of Covid
Pioneer of agent-based models warns of virus resurgence akin to 1918 Spanish flu