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Japan’s CCP goes global
International investors are flocking in ever greater numbers to clear their Japanese yen swap books at the Japan Securities Clearing Corporation. Their arrival is driving some big changes – within the clearing house itself and across the broader JPY…
Asia moves: Deutsche appoints Asia-Pacific treasurer, Citi boosts Australian sales team, and more
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Singapore banks step up their game against internal fraud
Firms respond to MAS warnings about dangers of remote working spurred by Covid
Asia moves: Crédit Agricole appoints Hong Kong CEO, UBS sales head joins Morgan Stanley, and more
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Asia moves: Natixis hires two in Asia, Sumitomo boosts corporate banking, and more
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Singapore calls time on new SOR swaps from September
Report calls on market participants to end reliance on SOR in coming quarters
Philippines weighs options for replacing swaps benchmark
Industry group identifies two alternatives but overnight rates are off the table. For now.
Asia moves: Allianz adds two to China, Allen & Overy appoints new partner, and more
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Jumbo Goldman 1MDB fine upends 2020 trend to lower losses
Financial fraud and fat fingers loom large, but annual top 10 op risk losses still show fewer fails. Data by ORX News
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
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
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
Energy Risk Asia Awards 2020: The winners
BNPP wins top derivatives award, with Macquarie scooping environmental products house
Asia’s private wealth giants shift gears to market-neutral
With interest rates low, structured product investors bypass capital-protected products for market-neutral strategies
EU defers legal fix to Brexit swaps trading ban on branches
Efforts to address duplicate Mifir trading obligations stymied by UK-EU negotiations
Indexed for growth – The democratisation of thematic indexes
Simon Karaban, head of index services at Singapore Exchange, talks about environmental, social and governance indexes and how the emergence of exchange-traded funds and wealth platforms is democratising thematic indexes, making them more accessible to…
Hong Kong plots Honia-linked floater debut
Central bank hopes floating rate note sale will kick-start new debt market linked to risk-free rate
Regional derivatives house of the year: DBS Bank
Asia Risk Awards 2020
House of the year, Singapore: OCBC
Asia Risk Awards 2020
LCH to accept Sing dollar bonds as collateral
Singapore’s banks hope move will ease margin funding burdens, and speed direct membership
Custodian of the year: BNP Paribas
Asia Risk Awards 2020
Deal of the year: Deutsche Bank
Asia Risk Awards 2020
ETF provider of the year: Yuanta SITC
Asia Risk Awards 2020
Lessons from the past – Overcoming historical tick-data challenges with the cloud (Part II)
The panel at a recent Risk.net webinar in association with Refinitiv outlined some of these challenges, including the expense of data cleaning, maintenance and storage; access to relevant data; and dataset integration. They agreed that cloud-based…