Multi-dealer structured product platforms are taking off in Asia. Can the likes of Contineo Limited, FinIQ and LinkedTrade Technologies recreate that success in Europe? By Natasha Rega-Jones risk.net/6122231

Hedge fund giants lead a group of up to 20 buy side firms likely to be in scope for initial margin rules in phase 4, Sept 2019. risk.net/6165346

Barclays and UBS are paving the way to shift swaps seamlessly from London to the EU27. Both have filed for Part VII transfers that would avoid a cumbersome bilateral novation of contracts in the event of a no-deal Brexit. risk.net/6168671

Rumble in the IM jungle: how new platforms match up risk.net/6191476

Year-end dislocations on European equity indices spell trouble for structured products issuers as Q4 earnings season gets underway. risk.net/6320476

UBS wins approval to transfer €32bn of swaps to Frankfurt in three-part Brexit contingency plan. Decision follows similar high court ruling for Barclays. risk.net/6367306

Remember that £29 trillion of swaps that was going to move out of London before Brexit? Don't hold your breath. risk.net/6395336

Natixis said to offload a third of Korean structured book risk.net/6415386

Swaps market heading for Libor fallbacks clash risk.net/6424381

Differing European approaches may hamper Ibor transition risk.net/6475221

RPI reform is back on the agenda but traders are being cautious after calling it wrong last time. This time round, investor losses stemming from reforms could be even greater, making a fix all the more difficult. risk.net/6466286

BCBS/Iosco's margin relief will lift hundreds of buyside from a documentation burden, but they may still have to calculate IM and seek regulatory approval to use the industry's preferred models. risk.net/6492676

Autocallable bonds: The retail investment success story of the last dacade has laden issuers with complex exotic risk. Now at full capacity, structured products dealers are eager to diversify risk.net/6515676

The comment period on Isda's CDS fix closes today. There's broad support, but some want more clarity around rules whose main aim is to create uncertainty. risk.net/6546616

Evolution or extinction: Ice swap rate’s post-Libor quandary risk.net/6673021

Derivatives exchanges see green future, starting with new ESG products and a clean-up of ethical standards in metals contracts risk.net/6726471

Whales have become synonymous with outsize risk at banks. UBS hopes to change that as it unleashes Orca - its machine learning algo - for rates clients (though technically an orca is a dolphin...) risk.net/6756026

It’s Open Day on Risk.Net. All content is free to read until the end of today. Here’s our latest on those pesky products that tripped up Archegos’s banks. risk.net/derivatives/79…

If you haven't read this from Rebekah Tunstead and Lukas Becker (published the day before BoE announcement), it's still free to view. As are all Risk.Net articles for our Open Day today. risk.net/derivatives/79…

This week’s BoE intervention in the gilts market was not a shock. It was exactly what pension funds had warned would happen if their long-dated liability hedges were subject to cash margin requirements. Way back when, Risk.net wrote about this stuff a LOT. Thread!