Financing and Counterparty Management: The Changing Landscape for Hedge Funds
Virtual OnlyRecent high-profile hedge fund stories have garnered attention for hedge funds and generated concerns over the levels of exposure enabled by banks’ prime brokerage departments. This level of scrutiny recalls changes the industry experienced after the 2008 financial crisis, when new regulation revised requirements on banks’ prime brokerage departments, affecting the scope of services they were able to provide to their clients and the relationship with the hedge fund managers more broadly.