Short-Term Rate Benchmarks: The Post-LIBOR Regime

B Tuckman - Annual Review of Financial Economics, 2023 - annualreviews.org
The London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR), the predominant family of global short-term
rate benchmarks for the past 40 years, ceased to exist in June 2023. Given the low volumes …

[HTML][HTML] Sharks in the dark: Quantifying HFT dark pool latency arbitrage

M Aquilina, S Foley, P O'Neill, T Ruf - Journal of Economic Dynamics and …, 2024 - Elsevier
We investigate stale reference pricing and liquidity provision in dark pools using proprietary,
participant-level regulatory data. We show a substantial amount of stale trading occurs …

[HTML][HTML] To fix or not to fix: The representativeness of the WM/R methodology that underpins the FX benchmark rates. A pre-registered report

M Benenchia, L Galati, A Lepone - Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper examines the effectiveness of the WM/Reuters (WM/R) methodology for FX
benchmark rates since its revision in 2015. After a series of market manipulation scandals …

Competition and manipulation in derivative contract markets

AL Zhang - Journal of Financial Economics, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper studies manipulation in derivative contract markets. When traders hedge factor
risk using derivative contracts, traders can manipulate settlement prices by trading the …

[HTML][HTML] Should underwriters be trusted? Reducing agency costs through primary market supervision

S Foley, X Hu, H Huang, J Li - The British Accounting Review, 2024 - Elsevier
We examine the mandated introduction of a supervised auction framework within China's
primary bond market. This regulatory intervention resulted in a substantial reduction in debt …

Quote-Based manipulation of illiquid securities

C Chau, A Aspris, S Foley, H Malloch - Finance Research Letters, 2021 - Elsevier
We document the effects of a manipulation akin to marking the close, conducted without any
manipulative trades. Using prosecuted cases, we examine how manipulators can utilize …

The impact of commodity benchmarks on derivatives markets: The case of the dated Brent assessment and Brent futures

A Frino, G Ibikunle, V Mollica, T Steffen - Journal of Banking & Finance, 2018 - Elsevier
We examine the response of ICE Brent Crude futures to the spot Dated Brent benchmark
published by Platts. Trading activity in the futures market intensifies during the benchmark …

Call auction, continuous trading and closing price formation

J Li, S Luo, G Zhou - Quantitative Finance, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The Shanghai Stock Exchange changed its trading mechanism of the preceding three
minutes to closing from continuous trading to call auction on August 20, 2018, while …

[PDF][PDF] HFT dark pool latency arbitrage

M Aquilina, S Foley, P O'Neill, T Ruf - 2023 - bis.org
We investigate stale reference pricing and liquidity provision in dark pools using proprietary,
participant-level regulatory data. We show a substantial amount of stale trading occurs …

Optimal closing benchmarks

C Frei, J Mitra - Finance Research Letters, 2021 - Elsevier
In financial markets, the closing price serves as an important benchmark. We introduce a
market model to analyze the stability of the closing price with presence of three types of …