Helen Bartholomew
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United Kingdom
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NY Fed paper warns of systemic risks from SOFR credit lines
Stress tests need to account for credit facilities being “drawn to the limit”, says Stanford’s Duffie → Read More
ECB group sounds alarm on ‘sluggish’ Euribor
Money market participants question robustness of key eurozone rate after methodology changes → Read More
Libor Act leaves door open for synthetic rate in US contracts
Absence of proposed limit protects borrowers from sky-high prime rate but may irk some investors → Read More
FSS sounds alarm as $800m of Korean autocalls slip into red
Regulator calls for vigilance as HSCEI products trade through knock-in levels during third quarter → Read More
LSEG bolsters non-cleared ambitions with Acadia deal
Exchange group plans to build ‘a clearing house for the non-cleared world’, says LCH CEO Maguire → Read More
ARRC’s trivial fight over term SOFR use
Toyota’s ABS deal should not derail effort to expand use of term rate in derivatives → Read More
FCA’s synthetic Libor plan could trigger US legal disputes
Tough legacy solution threatens to override existing fallbacks in some US law contracts → Read More
FCA proposes using CME’s term SOFR for synthetic US Libor
IBA agrees to use rival’s ARRC-endorsed benchmark to avoid bifurcating the market → Read More
World Omni ditched term SOFR tranche in latest ABS
Toyota deal drew ARRC’s ire, but some bankers still see a case for using term SOFR in auto ABS → Read More
Nasdaq takes aim at equity TRSs with bespoke futures
Can custom basket forwards convince buy-side firms to ditch bilateral swaps? → Read More
Battle lines drawn as exchanges launch €STR futures
CME is betting its three-month contracts will give it an edge over Ice’s one-month version → Read More
Margin for non-cleared European energy trades to jump 80%
Annual recalibration of Simm could catapult some energy firms over relief thresholds → Read More
Chill winds blow for Capitolis’s equity swap platform
Fintech’s effort to revive off-balance-sheet funding runs into market and regulatory turbulence → Read More
LSEG to launch clearing for equity swaps
Turquoise, LCH tie-up comes as equity swaps attract regulatory scrutiny in wake of Archegos → Read More
SOFR swap basis could pose ‘systemic risk’
Trading curbs must be loosened to prevent tripling of unhedgeable basis risk, says senior banker → Read More
CME preps April Eurodollar conversion
US exchange selects April 14, 2023 to flip open interest in heavily traded Libor contracts to SOFR → Read More
LCH cuts to the chase in SOR conversion plan
Proposal would skip interim stage in demise of Singapore’s outgoing rate → Read More
UK offers six-month margin reprieve for China netting sweep
Transition period falls short of Isda’s 18-month request, Hong Kong mulls similar relief → Read More
Don’t just reach for the ’70s inflation playbook – CROs
Lack of inflation experience on risk teams not a concern, buy-siders say → Read More
EC official signals ‘preference’ for synthetic US Libor fix
UK regulator has resisted calls for a synthetic fallback for legacy dollar contracts → Read More