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Volatility is a key concern for 2019. The growing belief among institutional investors across the US and Europe is that volatility is set to become more of a concern in 2019 and potentially the years ahead. As a result, a number of investors are ramping up their...

Traditional risk/reward comparisons treat the cost of an investment’s risk as a decrement to its potential return – overlooking the potential return available on investments in which risk may also provide a source of alpha. While cost-effectively reducing an...

A new report from Greenwich Associates discusses how the significant decline of the credit default swap (CDS) market has caused some participants to seek other products for their hedging needs. Two new securities DelphX offers – Covered Put Options...

It’s no secret there are difficulties in the credit default swaps (CDS) market—declining volumes, disputes over terms and other factors have bedeviled the space since the end of the global financial crisis. Less well-known are the efforts by financial...

The credit default swap (CDS), a financial product that has seen its volumes and outstanding notional decline for roughly a decade, credit default swaps have found their way back into the headlines—and for good reason. First, they have been...

Technology has long been the engine driving capital markets efficiency—both for investors in the markets, and for the capital markets infrastructure providers (CMIPs) that operate the exchanges and other trading venues, central counterparties, securities depositories, index providers, and data...

The physical science of matter and motion provides valuable insight for the effective digital management of risk. In this first instalment of the DelphX Innovation Series, we describe how a new risk-pooling facility powered by transparent Distributed Ledger Technology...

To withstand new regulatory pressures, investor expectations, and innovative competitors, banks need to reset their value focus and digitize their credit risk processes… Download the full PDF

Revival of a robust single-name CDS market would offset the lack of liquidity in the cash bond market, increase price transparency and lower the cost of financial risk management for all participants. But the market needs a more efficient...

Despite the benefits offered by all-to-all and other electronic trading platforms, statistics show that most corporate bond trades continue to be negotiated between a dealer and an institutional investor via phone or chat. Why hasn’t electronic trading captured a...