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Review of 2020: chaos on a roll
Vanishing liquidity, the Ronin collapse, XVAs – the pandemic wreaked havoc in risk transfer markets
Banks worldwide have built up liquidity buffers post-Covid
Lenders in Japan have the highest LCRs of global banks surveyed
Post-Covid crisis, EU banks have thin dollar liquidity buffers
Dollar LCRs declined between March and June
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MMFs lengthen portfolio maturity post-Covid – BIS
Average holdings had maturity of 41 days in November
Why central banks aren’t worried about FX algos – for now
Disclosure failings feed into FX code; other issues are worrying, but distant, says SNB’s Maechler
Many US banks want to curb Fed balances
Of those wanting to shrink excess reserves, a large percentage cite fears over net interest margins
Margin calls on insurers, pension funds stoked MMF rout – ECB
Dutch firms accounted for huge share of VM payments in March
Esma warns of UK-sized hole in Europe’s fund leverage radar
Executive at hedge fund AQR also urges reform of EU leverage measures to better assess risk
Credit Suisse, UBS slowed accrual of liquid assets in Q3
Credit Suisse’s LCR drops six percentage points quarter-on-quarter
Liquidity buffers thinned at Morgan Stanley, Goldman in Q3
Build-up of HQLA slows over the third quarter after post-Covid surge
Canada pension fund Hoopp goes cool on bonds
$70bn investor rethinks LDI strategy to take into account paltry yield from fixed income
EU funds lack liquidity management tools – Esma
Most Ucits can only rely on temporary borrowing or gating to weather crises
Bilateral streams slash FX trading costs by 80%, dealers claim
Risk Live: At some banks, 70% of spot is now traded via bilateral feeds
Varying bank leverage ratio could fix ‘broken’ repo market
Risk Live: Repo with buy side should incur different leverage ratio, suggests big asset manager
Joe Biden’s slow road to remaking US financial regulation
Moves on climate risk could come early; other changes may have to wait until end of 2021, or later
Barclays, unlike UK peers, saw its LCR surge in Q3
High-quality liquid assets surged 9% quarter on quarter
Botched copy: Esma delivers cut and paste pastiche of Trace
Mifid transparency mishmash misses key aspects of US system it emulates, say dealers
Algos make market thinner, but not less liquid – BIS
Trading robots change market microstructure, central banks conclude; new liquidity metrics may be needed
Regulators should set ‘guidelines’ for CCP margins – Kemp
Citi’s former clearing head says CCPs are still competing on margin
One-third of EU banks used TLTROs to hit supervisory targets
Twenty-three per cent said future TLTROs would improve their ability to fulfil regulatory or supervisory requirements
Deutsche’s cash buffer ballooned in Q3
The bank had borrowed €34 billion through the ECB’s TLTRO III as of September
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