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Lingering Euribor may hit €STR futures prospects
Bourses question viability of euro RFR contracts as Euribor reform efforts remove transition incentives
UBS unleashes Orca for rates clients
Machine learning algo trawls liquidity pools to slash US Treasury trading costs
Giancarlo bows out with regulatory deference
Move comes amid row between US and European policymakers over cross-border CCP regulation
Evolution or extinction: Ice swap rate’s post-Libor quandary
Thin liquidity in SOFR swaps imperils reference rate for $40 trillion swaptions market
Swaps users mull ‘big bang’ for SOFR discounting
Cleared and bilateral US dollar swaps could move to SOFR discounting on the same day in 2020
German CDS switch creates credit-linked note mismatch
Note issuers fear losses after relabelling of swap contracts creates subordination discrepancy
Autocall concentration weighs on dealers
Hedging headaches force issuers to seek new structured product blockbusters
Dealers seek clarity on buy-side IM relief
Hundreds of buy-side firms may still need to calculate margin and get models approved
Dealers suffer in euro rates desert
Analysis shows collapse in swap and bond bid/offer spreads, as traders say business is “unsustainable”
CDSs get subjective
Legal certainty loses out to commercial objectives in race to fix manufactured defaults
Swaps market heading for Libor fallbacks clash
Euro market goes own way on question of how to replace term Ibors with overnight RFRs
Brexit novations ‘on hold’ to gain reg relief
Conditional relief would subject early swaps movers to clearing and margin rules
‘Imperfect hedge’ magnified equities slump at BNPP
US index loss, dislocations and weak demand produce worst equity trading results in a decade
UBS wins approval for €32bn Brexit swaps transfer
Decision tests boundaries of deposit-taking element, after Barclays had part of its earlier transfer rejected
Caveats and slapped wrists in Barclays’ Brexit swaps switch
Judge blocks transfer of some trades from non-deposit taking entity and slams “unrealistic” timeline
Hope fading for margin threshold hike
Smaller buy-side firms could still escape compliance burden via expected regulatory guidance
Eurex Clearing names new CRO
CCP’s risk analytics head will replace Laux in July
Lobbyists seek eleventh-hour Brexit relief for UK futures
EC urged to extend CCP safe harbour so listed derivatives don’t switch to OTC
Isda seeks consensus on CDS clean-up
Credit definitions amendments expected in Q1 to stamp out manipulated triggers
NatWest kick-starts Brexit swaps transfer
Bank follows Barclays and UBS with plans to continue serving EU clients as ‘no-deal’ looms
Banks demand greater scrutiny of CCP margin add-ons
Nasdaq Clearing blow-up prompts questions over CCPs’ methods of applying top-ups to concentrated positions
Brexit OTC mutation, chaperones and SA-CCR
The week on Risk.net, October 6–12, 2018
LCH cancellation notices, Eurex incentives and prop trader rules
The week on Risk.net, September 29 – October 5, 2018