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  • More hedge funds are looking into entering the market making industry, following in the footsteps of Citadel Securities.
  • US banks this week reported stellar returns from trading and underwriting in the first quarter, even as the bottom line was hit by gigantic writedowns and reserves for credit losses, as the economic and financial disruption from the coronavirus crisis took its toll.
  • The coronavirus pandemic has put some major market regulation on ice, but not the Ibor transition, the most far-reaching financial reform still on market participants’ to-do lists.
  • Synthetic risk transfer deals from Deutsche Bank, Santander and Standard Chartered have been seen changing hands, as certain credit funds look to free up cash by selling assets that have drastically outperformed equity and junior debt in leveraged loan CLOs. Risk transfer deals are often bilateral and privately negotiated, with little or no public reporting, and usually held to maturity by the specialist funds that buy them.
  • US banks ramped up reserves for credit losses, expanded credit lines and enjoyed bumper trading and debt underwriting volumes in the first quarter, according to results released on Tuesday and Wednesday.
  • Reviews of key areas of legislation such as MiFID II, bank capital requirements and Solvency II have been pushed into the future, as the European Commission puts green and digital regulation first.