Liquidity
Covid-19 tumult prompts rethink of buy-side risk management
Buy-side risk survey: investment firms making changes to their risk reports, stress tests and concentration limits
Fed dollar swap operations slow as funding strains ease
Seven-day swap utilisation has dropped off since May
Deposit flows shape systemic US banks’ liquidity risk
Non-operational deposits accounted for over 25% of cash outflows in Q2
Mega-hedges and generational strife at PGGM
Buy-side risk survey: for Dutch pension giant, battle between young and old shaped response to March mayhem
Systemic US banks’ liquidity ratios rebounded in Q2
Aggregate liquid assets increased 15% quarter on quarter
Inside the Fed’s secret liquidity stress tests
Lobbyists and Quarles train sights on horizontal exams that can shape bank risk appetite
Federated Hermes’ Murray on psychology and risk management
Buy-side risk survey: top executive talks about learning from Daniel Kahneman and client behaviour
How UBS AM dealt with Covid-19 crunch
Buy-side risk survey: Swiss giant had planned for liquidity squeeze, says CRO – but not one like March
Covid liquidity, block trades and Fed op risk
The week on Risk.net, August 1-7, 2020
AllianceBernstein’s CRO on managing risk with imagination
Buy-side risk survey: Andrew Chin suggests ripping up old assumptions and creating crisis ‘playbooks’
Preparation paid off for funds during Covid liquidity crunch
Buy-side risk survey: how asset managers weathered the liquidity crisis in March
Mariner’s CRO on avoiding predictable surprises
Buy-side risk survey: relative value specialist builds shocks into investment strategy
Pimco’s Mariappa on iterating through the Covid-19 crisis
Buy-side risk survey: bond giant’s risk head is paying closer attention to idiosyncratic risks
Before and after the Covid-19 storm: buy-side risk survey
Wide-ranging survey reveals what worked and what didn’t in March – and what will change as a result
CCPs added cash to their liquidity buffers in Q1
CME increased cash reserves at central banks by 271% quarter-on-quarter
Pricing data in fixed income markets – Is transparency truly an issue?
Jason Waight, head of regulatory affairs, Europe at MarketAxess, explains how investment in commercial transparency solutions has proven itself in 2020, and why this leaves a question mark over the potential value of a centralised bond tape
Clearing banks show they’ve learned lessons of the past
CCP members were able to meet massive margin calls in March. But could they do it again?
‘Improving’ Mifid post-trade transparency splits markets
Mooted changes to Europe’s transparency regime are dividing markets – largely along functional lines
Strategic preparation – The impact of the UMR phase five delay
Bruce Kellaway, global head of rates, securities and collateral at LCH, discusses the most likely instruments to be pushed into the cleared world as a result of phase five implementation, the tactics firms use to drive efficiency in exchange threshold…
Leveraging technology to address modernisation challenges faced by bank treasuries
Today, bank treasuries are required to take on a greater job scope with an increased level of responsibility. In addition to an increased workload, treasuries must also deal with the realities of limited budgets that prevent them from optimally executing…
Attention turns to Esma after UK quashes CSDR buy-ins
Esma launched informal review just before UK Treasury opted out of settlement regime
Funds warm to Esma liquidity rules after Covid crisis
Funds are embracing stress-testing, and swing pricing, after “a real liquidity crisis” in March
SOFR and credit spread – Not as simple as it seems
Chris Dias, principal and global Libor solution co-lead at KPMG, explores how the market will adjust as liquidity grows and why firms must resist the temptation to default to existing processes for determining credit spread and rethink the traditional…
Investors at the gates: MMF reforms fail the Covid test
After MMF rescues return, regulators urged to rethink rules on gates and sponsor support