Risk.net Swipe left: repo reporting no match for Brexit, or collateral
A happier start than Emir, but SFTR honeymoon is over now that trades report separately in UK and EU Print this page
As ill-fated regulatory encounters go, few can rival the star-crossed introduction of derivatives reporting in Europe. Repo and securities lending participants have taken comfort in the fact that their own entrée to the Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR), which governs repo reporting, was not quite as disastrous.
Even so, reconciling counterparty reports for the same repo trade – known as pairing and matching – has troubled the SFTR’s debut, sources tell
WatersTechnology.com Waters Wrap: Buzzwords and the hype machine (And editorial judgment)
Anthony previews some of the major trend topics that WatersTechnology will look to cover over the next eight months. Print this page
As I write this, I’m sitting on a train coming back from Raleigh, North Carolina. Once I publish this column, I’ll officially start the second leg of a two-week vacation. To say that I’m disconnected from the world of fintech would be an understatement. Fortunately, I work with highly-talented individuals, so the site hasn’t skipped a beat. For this piece, I’m going to focus on our overarching editorial strategy in 2021, but first, here are some of the stories we published over the last seven
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Dealers say proposal to force disclosure of all big-bank OTC derivatives trades won’t improve data
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Post-trade data published in the European Union is patchy and hard to use for a variety of reasons. One reason is a lack of clarity over when off-venue derivatives trades must be disclosed.
Esma’s proposed solution is to require dealers that trade large amounts of a derivative outside of a venue to publish details of all transactions in swaps belonging to the same sub-asset class.
Dealers say this approach will simply increase the quantity of trade data without improving its quality. It could also make it harder to decipher aggregate data and raise the risk of pre-emptive trades that would damage less sophisticated market players.
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Latest job changes across the industry
Credit Suisse faces some tough choices as it absorbs the extraordinary losses inflicted by the Greensill and Archegos fund fiascos and subsequent ratings hit. On April 6, the firm announced an estimated pre-tax loss of approximately Sfr900 million ($963 million) for the first quarter, including a charge of Sfr4.4 billion ($4.7 billion) in respect of Archegos. At the same time, the firm announced that investment bank CEO
Brian Chin and chief risk and compliance officer Lara Warner were stepping down from their roles with immediate effect.
Christian Meissner, co-head of wealth management banking advisory and vice-chair of investment banking, will replace Chin in May. Meissner was previously head of global corporate and investment banking at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, and earlier co-CEO for EMEA at Lehman Brothers.
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Expectations grow that a review of SFTR scheduled for April will be postponed due to Covid
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A review of the European Union’s reporting rules for repurchase agreements (repo) is expected to be delayed, according to three sources familiar with the matter.
Banks and investment firms were meant to start reporting repo and securities lending trades under the Securities Financing Transaction Regulation (SFTR) in April last year. However, the European Securities and Markets Authority (Esma) recommended that national authorities avoid enforcing the requirements until July 2020, due to the
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