The Background: Pre-hedging has been the subject of significant debate within the financial industry in recent years, with concerns often raised over potential conduct and market integrity issues. The ...

On November 3, 2025, IOSCO released its anticipated Pre-Hedging Final Report (“Final Report”) detailing its assessment of current pre-hedging market practices and setting out recommended guidance for ...

Though pre-hedging has been lauded by some across the markets as a key way to improve market efficiency, the buy-side continue to have reservations as to its empirical use. The mechanism allows ...

Feb 1 (Reuters) - Australia's corporate regulator on Thursday rolled out supervisory directions for market intermediaries on pre-hedging practices, just a day after a court found Westpac WBC.AX, the ...

Thibault Gobert, head of liquidity pool at Spectrum Markets, talks about the paradigm shift in market making over the past decade – and why pre-hedging should be the topic on everyone’s lips right now ...

This content is provided by an external author without editing by Finextra. It expresses the views and opinions of the author. Westpac will pay the maximum penalty of $1.8 million in relation to the ...