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The once monopolistic market for portfolio optimisation is entering a fresh era of competition and investment, as a new leverage regime nudges dealers to adopt next-gen rebalancing services in place of traditional rates compression. In January, Quantile Technologies – one of the earliest rivals to first-mover TriOptima in rates compression – secured a $51 million investment from US private equity firm, Spectrum Equity. The same month, IHS Markit pumped $113 million into a new joint venture with Only users who have a paid subscription or are part of a corporate subscription are able to print or copy content. To access these options, along with all other subscription benefits, please contact [email protected] or view our subscription options here: http://subscriptions.risk.net/subscribe
Risk.net Risk Awards 2021: valiant effort to solve swaptions discounting problem wins praise from clients David Bachelier, Capitalab co-founder As the world grappled with the Covid-19 pandemic, Capitalab staffers were trying to solve a knotty problem afflicting the swaptions market from their kitchen tables. Central counterparties (CCPs) would soon begin using new risk-free rates to value more than $200 trillion-equivalent of cleared interest rate swaps, a key milestone in the roadmap for phasing out Ibor benchmarks. The first of these ‘big bang’ switches occurred on July 27, when CME, Eurex and LCH began using the euro short-term rate (€STR) rather than outgoing Eonia to discount future cashflows and calculate interest paid on cash collateral – known as price alignment interest (PAI) – for cleared euro swaps.