Africa
Sovereign risk manager of the year: Côte d’Ivoire
Risk Awards 2025: Dual-tranche $2.6 billion deal enables African sovereign to refinance costly private loans and improve debt sustainability
Inflationary cloud has silver lining for some quant strategies
Research finds certain factors may perform better than previously realised when prices rise
Risk managers mull Basel-style climate standards
Risk Live: Splintered approach to stress-testing across jurisdictions “very, very worrying”, says risk expert
Isda’s fork provision gives crypto market plenty to chew over
Not everyone is happy with the discretion new digital definitions offer to calculation agents
Tales from the crypto prompt calls for FX-style market structures
Demands for interdealers and prime brokers to be brought into crypto market in wake of FTX debacle
People: Credit Suisse’s FX revamp; Barclays hires co-heads; and more
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Currency derivatives house of the year: BNP Paribas
Risk Awards 2023: Paris-based bank profits from dollar/offshore renminbi volatility
Derivatives client clearer of the year: BNP Paribas
Risk Awards 2023: When gas prices spiked, French bank provided much-needed credit to clients hit by jumbo margin calls
FSB: third of climate stress tests not tackling physical risk
Six jurisdictions conducted exercises only for transition risk
Op risk data: SEC skewers Goldman for specious ESG claims
Also: FTX hacked; Aussie banks schooled for credit insurance mis-sales; more on Glencore. Data by ORX News
People moves: Capitolis lay-offs, UBS’s new risk chief, and more
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Credit Suisse shake-up, HSBC’s new CFO, and more
Latest job changes across the industry
People: Credit Suisse’s new CFO, Velani joins BofA, and more
Latest job changes across the industry
Geopolitical risk models not ‘rigorous’ enough, says quant
Joseph Simonian believes game theory and reinforcement learning could improve matters
Major lender hikes borrowing costs as crypto flounders
Brokers warn crypto market faces a reckoning with wrong-way risk as lenders rush to tighten terms
Op risk data: Glencore hauled over the coals in $1bn+ bribery probe
Also: Russian banks in fraud fails; Citi’s fat-finger fumble; devil’s in the data detail. Data by ORX News
Clearing industry braces for volatility ‘super-cycle’
Green transition may fuel higher cash demands and more risk events, FCMs warn
People moves: new Credit Suisse chair, and more
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CME delays Span 2 rollout till at least mid-2022
FCMs ask bourse to postpone long-planned switch to new VAR model to allow more time for testing
People moves: Citi nabs JPM and Citadel staff, and more
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Dealers back CLS plans for EM settlement system
12 banks announce support for project to extend PvP protection to certain CLS-ineligible currencies