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Clearwater Analytics today announced a new services partnership with BNP Paribas’ Securities Services business. Clients will benefit from a singular view of their investment portfolio.

Clearwater Analytics today announced a new services partnership with BNP Paribas’ Securities Services business.

This Opinion piece is by Brian Slattery, SVP, Clearwater Analytics and it looks at the variety of new investment opportunities available to insurance fund managers, pension fund managers and more

Non-bank venture debt players suddenly have a wide-open opportunity set, but VC managers face a huge task to replace the bank’s many critical market functions.

With interest rates soaring across the world, the embattled regional bank has been the focus of widespread fears about financial contagion. Inflationary pressures are boosting rates, which in turn are exposing cracks in the foundation of the global financial system.

In light of Silicon Valley Bank’s (SVB) failure, speculation has surfaced about whether the FASB’s accounting rules for held-to-maturity (HTM) debt securities should be revised, an old issue that was put to rest about seven years ago.

Robin Wigglesworth identifies that the biggest losers in the Credit Suisse collapse are those who were holding the bank’s additional Tier 1 bonds and I can’t disagree. What must now be uppermost in investors’ minds is the heightened requirement to have an in-depth understanding of their own risk exposures.

State insurance regulators are taking aim at the capital charges for insurers who invest in riskier collateralized loan obligations (CLOs), concerned that too much policyholder capital is being exposed to risky investments.