Insurance broker Lockton saw premiums across its cyber portfolio drop 11% in 2025. The first half of the year saw the sharpest reductions, with more moderate decreases in the second half. Lockton ...

Cross-border bank credit to Asia-Pacific emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) fell by $45.5 billion in Q3 2025 – the largest quarterly decline in two years – as the region’s annual ...

Pietro Rossi had a problem. An insurance company needed a model that could price bonds based on the likelihood of changes in credit ratings. The standard, off-the-shelf models are based on probability ...

In December last year, Swiss investment firm Ram Active Investments created the genesis of what it hopes might become a new ...

The authors analyze the interest rate risk in the banking book regulations, arguing that financial institutions must develop robust models for forecasting ...

Market participants have warned the Bank of England against a blanket mandatory clearing regime for gilt repo, arguing that a sweeping approach could raise costs and also fail to deliver the netting ...

Friction-free foreign exchange is the prize offered by stablecoins such as Tether and USDC. But the prize remains elusive ...

The European Securities and Market Authority (Esma) plans to publish a supervisory briefing along with questions and answers setting out how firms should comply with an annual reporting obligation ...

Pre‑crisis, Fannie and Freddie hedged large duration mismatches by shorting Treasuries, shorting futures, paying fixed on ...

CaixaBank added €9.9 billion ($11.7 billion) of structural deposit hedges in the fourth quarter of 2025, as it sought to manage net interest income (NII) sensitivity amid a pause in interest rate cuts ...

Lawyers have welcomed changes to China’s draft regulation on derivatives trading that scale back the overseas reach of the ...

It’s not alone in this, of course. But now, through the work of its Kinexys team – coupled with last year’s launch of its ...