Articles by Samuel Wilkes
Iosco pre-hedging review: more RFQs than answers
Latest proposals leave observers weighing new clampdown on pre-hedging
Iosco mimics industry codes to tackle pre-hedging dilemma
Advocates breathe sigh of relief, but Iosco release carries suggested restrictions
Ruled out: can regulators settle the pre-hedging debate?
Market participants are at odds over the practice and whether regulation or principles can settle the score
More disclosure touted to temper pre-hedging ills
Transparency could help investors choose a dealer, but will they use the disclosures?
Iosco delays pre-hedging consultation to November
Review into controversial practice splits industry
As risk of US Basel delay grows, Europe is in a bind over CVA
European Commission may postpone FRTB, but it’s hard to separate surgically from rest of framework
We need to talk about pre-hedging
Dealers claim it’s a vital tool for managing risk. Clients say it’s open to abuse. How should regulators treat the problem child of financial markets?
Iosco takes aim at pre-hedging with new probe
Global standard-setter intends to release results of review in third quarter of 2024
EU Parliament creates multiverse of SA-CCR outcomes
Some MEPs want to ease rules further than EC draft; others want return to undiluted Basel text
Fortunes of VAR: dealers decry effect of war on risk models
European banks with large Russian derivatives exposures face risk of backtesting exceptions – and higher capital requirements
Esma plan ‘won’t help’ fix Mifid swaps data problem
Dealers say proposal to force disclosure of all big-bank OTC derivatives trades won’t improve data
All roads lead to Bergamo: Euronext eyes new home for its tech
Market participants fear a “horrible” relocation project and more room for latency arbitrage
Mifid best execution relief for buy side hangs by a thread
Largest grouping in European Parliament faces uphill battle to suspend RTS 28 reporting
AFM seeks ‘level playing field’ for venues and aggregators
Dutch regulator suggests some liquidity services should be classified as OTFs
Regulators plan to delay IM ‘big bang’ – market sources
Most see final phase of initial margin rules coming a year later, in September 2021
Data reveals Emir swaps report matching rates at 40%
Figure is better than some feared, but still calls into question the value of dual-sided reporting
EU lawmakers fail to deliver on single-sided reporting
But there is still hope for EU swaps users in future Emir reviews
How Brexit is set to muddy Mifid transparency data
Market participants say duplicate reports in UK and EU will result in misleading public data
How publishers are still falling short on Mifid II post-trade data
Four publishers yet to align post-trade data format with Q&A issued eight months ago
As Brexit looms, Mifid transparency faces the chop
EU law and equivalent UK draft threaten to split and undermine trade disclosure rules
Dealers sour on Mifid’s systematic internaliser label
SI decisions will take account of tougher pre-trade rules, client demand and Brexit
FRTB threatens dynamic FX hedging of capital ratios
Industry says recent Basel proposals are unclear and retain burden of pre-approval for hedges
Crédit Agricole hires Varloot for risk role
Etienne Varloot joins as CIB head of market and counterparty risk
Mifid transparency has failed so far, say traders
Poor-quality, inaccessible data and the lack of instruments covered undermine use case