FILS 2021: Boosting liquidity through market structure
The rise in bilateral streaming and the regulatory push towards central clearing can increase the diversity of trading counterparties and boost liquidity according to ...
European Women in Finance: Isabelle Girolami - A fresh attitude to risk
Isabelle Girolami has been CEO of LCH Ltd. since 1 November 2019. She has since had to deal with a global pandemic requiring employees to work from home, the debate over ...
Repo market stress prompts calls for central bank support
Could central bank intervention bypass sell-side intermediaries, if they only act as agents not risk takers? David Wigan reports. The stresses in the US repo markets in ...
LIBOR risks growing
Philip Whitehurst, head of service development at clearing house LCH has warned delegates at the Fixed Income Leaders Summit to take FCA warnings seriously regarding the ...
Deutsche Bank offers client clearing via CDSClear
By Pia Hecher.
Securities financing : An integrated approach : Lynn Strongin Dodds
Securities lending comes into its own How buy-side firms are adapting to the margin regime, by Lynn Strongin Dodds. Regulation, including tighter margin legislation, has ...
When will T2S harmonise European bond issuance?
Target 2 for Securities (T2S), the ambitious brainchild of the European Central Bank (ECB) and Eurosystem, has the potential to lower the costs of bond issuance by ...
Optimising clearing costs for cheaper trading
Clearing of European derivatives now looks set to stay in London for the foreseeable future, but traders still need to assess how the clearing house they use can impact ...
LCH SA extends clearing offering to Belgian debt
By Flora McFarlane.
Repurchase disagreements
A calamitous year-end in 2016 has put the broken repo market firmly in the spotlight. Lynn Strongin Dodds reports. December 2016 saw Europe’s repurchase agreement (repo) ...
