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Eurex focused on harmonising onto one risk management framework

The TRADE

Michael Peters At a recent roundtable, Deutsche Börse Group derivatives exchange, Eurex, shared its plan to harmonise onto one risk management infrastructure over the next two years. Almost a decade ago, back in 2014, Eurex clearing was a leading innovator when it came to real-time risk management.

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What a Good Insurance Broker Looks Like

Focus Investment Banking

What a Good Insurance Broker Looks Like Inside the Traits that Make Brokers Acquisition Ready As M&A activity continues to consolidate a fragmented U.S. From reoccurring commissions and operational efficiency to commercial lines focus and niche specialisation, the profile of a good broker has never been clearer.

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Prime brokerage: The intersection of challenge and opportunity

The TRADE

Instead, a combination of rising interest rates, inflation, soaring energy prices and geopolitical tensions have hit hedge funds, and subsequently the risk management practices of prime brokers. These forces have rumbled markets and led to heightened volatility.

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Barclays goes live as clearing broker for LCH

The TRADE

LCH – part of the post-trade division of London Stock Exchange Group – has announced that Barclays and Barclays Ireland are now live as clearing brokers at CDSClear. LCH also announced that its 24-hour foreign exchange clearing service, ForexClear, cleared the first NDF trade for Axis Bank – where Societe Generale acted as clearing broker.

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Algo advances create overlap between US equities’ single-stock and program trading

The TRADE

Many buy-side traders use broker sales traders to offer guidance on these options, and for more than 60% of them, performance and minimising market impact are the driving force in the decision-making process. Buy-side traders value the expertise and risk management capabilities of high-touch sales traders. constituents.

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The TRADE predictions series 2024: Foreign exchange, it’s all about swaps and forwards

The TRADE

Likewise, rather than using long-dated FX forwards of up to a year or two, many fund managers chose to lock in rates of up to six months or less to add an extra layer of flexibility and nimbleness should the market move against them. As the FX swaps market grows, we expect to see regional banks trade more FX swaps.

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People Moves Monday: Peel Hunt, Redburn Atlantic, RBC Capital Markets, Citi, and more…

The TRADE

Peel Hunt Redburn Atlantic’s head of electronic trading has left the firm to join UK investment bank Peel Hunt, as revealed by The TRADE. Meroni joins from Sanford Bernstein and also previously served at Lehman, Goldman Sachs, UBS Investment Bank and Nomura. He replaces Nishad Vallonthaiel as head of electronic trading.