Benchmark
IsdaFix faces rival based on swap repository data
New end-of-day benchmark is "much harder to manipulate" than industry standard IsdaFix
Energy should be exempt from benchmark rules, argues EC official
Benchmark indexes in energy markets are already well regulated and do not need further oversight, argues EC director-general for energy
Lois: credit and liquidity
The spread between Libor and overnight index swap rates used to be negligible – until the crisis. Its behaviour since can be explained theoretically and empirically by a model driven by typical lenders’ liquidity and typical borrowers’ credit risk. By…
CaixaBank revels in the end of the deposit wars
To Euribor and back
Iosco offers general and specific principles to deal with equity and benchmark indexes
Iosco has confronted the 'one size fits all' debate in its draft Principles on Financial Benchmarks, the responses for which are due today (May 16)
Smart beta strategies: too clever by half?
The rise of smart beta
Lack of regulatory clarity hampering PRA code of conduct
Price reporting agencies expect to release updated industry code of conduct shortly, but warn regulatory uncertainty could delay their efforts
Tankard natural gas indexes greeted with scepticism
Traders show little enthusiasm for Tankard indexes of European natural gas, despite ongoing concerns about the reliability of assessments by price reporting agencies. Gillian Carr reports
RBS fined $612 million for Libor rigging
RBS's head of investment banking arm to step down in wake of findings
Barclays announces departure of senior staff
The bank's finance director and general counsel are to leave
Index roundup: Esma and EBA move to strengthen Euribor
Index roundup
PRAs push back against potential EU rules on benchmarks
Price reporting agencies among the most vehement critics of potential EU rules on benchmark indexes
Asia crude oil benchmark moves closer
A crude measure
Asian challenge to crude benchmarks
Asian challenge to crude benchmarks
Seeking opportunities in coal trading
It's all relative
ORX completes first stage of scenario library programme
The Operational Riskdata Exchange says benchmarking is the next step in its effort to help operational risk managers improve their use of scenarios
Forging an iron ore derivatives market in Asia
Forging a new benchmark
Unconstrained bond funds gain momentum as investors turn away from benchmarks
Asset managers have reported demand from clients for so-called unconstrained bond strategies; freeing them from the rigidity of managing to benchmark bond indexes. Credit talked to five leading investment firms to get their take on the unconstrained…
EDHEC and Russell team up for Solvency II benchmark indexes
EDHEC and Russell team up for Solvency II benchmark indexes