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A new alphabet soup of financial services and energy market regulations are making firms nervous about their ability to comply, said panellists at Energy Risk's Central and Eastern Europe conference
Changes to bank capital rules on CCP exposures remove the need for bank clients to enter into contractual agreements to port trades to other clearing members
Revised Basel rules provide little capital incentive for clearing members to clear trades on behalf of clients, bankers argue
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Some banks want to be on the list of global Sifis – exactly the opposite to what the rules are intended to achieve, says former chairman of the Basel Committee standards implementation group
The date: October 27. The scene: a dining room at one of the world’s biggest banks. The starter: grilled salmon. While glasses of sparkling water were still enthusiastically effervescing, two of the bank’s senior executives railed against what they...
Dealers say regulators have cooked up a pro-cyclical credit value adjustment capital charge that will force them to buy increasing amounts of protection in an illiquid market, regardless of changes in counterparty credit. The impact will be felt by uncollateralised...
Systemic regulators want to use Basel III’s micro-prudential tools to steer the wider economy, but no-one knows how these controls work – and bank supervisors may not be happy to take a back seat. By Michael Watt
Swiss banks had to switch over to Basel 2.5 at the start of 2011, but they are still wrestling with elements of the new trading book rules – from educating traders on the impact, to working out sovereign bond risks. And differences have already emerged...
Basel III allows contingent credit default swaps (CCDSs) to be used as a mitigant when calculating credit value adjustment. Advocates of CCDSs hope that will give the market some momentum – but others say the product will continue to suffer from a shortage...
After five years as secretary-general, Stefan Walter left the Basel Committee at the end of October. He accepts regulators had the wrong pre-crisis agenda, but argues Basel III puts things right. By Duncan Wood
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