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Banks fear US cross-product capital relief will fall short
Proposal to treat repo as futures for SA-CCR may not do enough to support UST clearing mandate
UBS fixed income structuring head departs
Credit Suisse alumni Adrian Bracher leaves Swiss bank
An eye on API: bilateral FX takes hold with some asset managers
Long-term savings in trading costs are tempting buy-siders to explore direct connectivity with liquidity providers
RBI’s modelled market RWAs jump on Tarf stress shock
FX volatility scenario for 2009 drives sharp rise in stressed VAR under internal models approach
For Esma the supervisor, people power will be prime
Industry hopes to avoid people risk during transition, with help from national authorities
Hopes, fears and ‘mass confusion’: the sudden end of SR 11-7
Banks welcome chance to prioritise model reviews, but fret over future policy changes and AI
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Artificial intelligence
AI governance rules coming soon, says CFTC chair
Selig doesn’t want to stifle innovation, but says trading or advice algos will need guardrails
Barclays built a risk framework for GenAI from scratch
Eleven teams contribute to assessing generative AI use cases in a system that includes 35 controls
How AI agents can join the dots for risk managers
Citi risk expert outlines agentic AI tool that would pull together structured and unstructured data on trading and lending approvals to create single, unified view of risk
Do banks still need to validate GenAI models?
Regulators carved out GenAI models from new risk guidance. Banks shouldn’t see this as a reason to stop validating them.
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RBI’s modelled market RWAs jump on Tarf stress shock
FX volatility scenario for 2009 drives sharp rise in stressed VAR under internal models approach
Risk Benchmarking
Top 10 op risks: AI upends risk taxonomies
AI risk enters annual poll in fifth, but firms split over treating it as a standalone risk or a cross-cutting driver
Basel III Endgame
Basel III endgame: overall relief hides winners and losers
G-Sibs gain from surcharge reform while AOCI hits regional banks
One thing missing from US Basel III proposal: a deadline
Without a deadline, risk teams will struggle to secure resources to begin implementation projects
Foreign banks can swerve US Basel op risk capital charges
New proposal offers category III and IV banks op-out from regime, but intragroup trades penalised
Dealers push for more revisions to Basel III endgame
Isda AGM: Goldman, JP Morgan bankers want changes on cross-product netting, CVA and default risk charges
Crypto’s missing CROs
More than two-thirds of top crypto exchanges lack a chief risk officer, although the picture is changing
Credit risk
UK rethinking tougher capital rules for US bank subsidiaries
US endgame draft would trigger UK Basel III trap floor for foreign banks, but PRA is reviewing
Change fatigue could dim EBA’s credit risk simplicity drive
Revisions may be kept to a minimum as short-term implementation burden weighs on banks
FSB warns of ‘circles of risks’ in bank risk transfer deals
Credit lines, portfolio financing and NAV facilities for private credit funds could rebound on banks
In simplifying credit risk models, EBA could compound capital costs
Skipping hard yards of internal ratings-based approach might trip higher capital charges and implementation costs
In Iran war, VAR models ease cliff effect on Ice and CME margins
At 105%, EEX – using Span model – saw largest single-day jump compared with those CCPs
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