Feature/Risk management
Strange new world of Covid economics upends loan-loss models
Models wrong-footed by government support, slumps in whole sectors and differences within industries
Hero or villain? NSCC draws fire for Robinhood margin waiver
Fears of moral hazard after CCP waives billions in margin demands following meme-stock volatility
Special K-factors: new buy-side capital regime sized to fit
Overhaul of capital regulations could hit European investors’ op risk capital calculations
Utility is success? Row brews over futures post-trade workflows
Industry confronts competing models and hard questions in search of better allocations workflow
Top 10 op risks 2021: geopolitical risk
Stimulus unwind, Covid nationalism and regime changes spell volatile operating environment
Top 10 op risks 2021: employee wellbeing
All-encompassing impact of Covid leaves employees with the feeling of ‘living from work’
Top 10 op risks 2021: regulatory risk
Big dip in fines belies lingering fears over Covid loan mis-selling and sanctions risk
Top 10 op risks 2021: organisational change
Change the sole constant as industry ponders its post-Covid future
Top 10 op risks 2021: conduct risk
Remote working vastly complicates the job of conduct risk supervisors
Top 10 op risks 2021: data compromise
Remote working elevates fears of data theft, misuse and abuse
Top 10 op risks 2021: third-party risk
Pandemic and shift to cloud computing inflame concerns for banks and regulators
Top 10 op risks 2021: theft and fraud
Changes in working practices since Covid shift angle of criminal attack on financial institutions
Top 10 operational risks for 2021
The biggest op risks for the year ahead, as chosen by senior industry practitioners
Top 10 op risks 2021: resilience risk
Industry survives biggest real-world stress test, but challenges remain for firms and regulators
Top 10 op risks 2021: IT disruption
Integrity of core systems paramount as risk managers battle outages and hacks in work from home era
All roads lead to Bergamo: Euronext eyes new home for its tech
Market participants fear a “horrible” relocation project and more room for latency arbitrage
Held in suspense: late futures orders blamed for Covid meltdown
Buy-side use of average pricing contributed to rash of failed trades and give-ups last March
Review of 2020: chaos on a roll
Vanishing liquidity, the Ronin collapse, XVAs – the pandemic wreaked havoc in risk transfer markets
Asian banks bite back at big tech
Asia Risk 25: Asian lenders eye technology and data to help tame disruptors on their turf
Must do better – Apac slow to curb control risk
Asia Risk 25: Even as the level of regulatory scrutiny peaks, meaningful change eludes the region’s banks
CLS: can’t live with ’em, can’t live without ’em?
FX settlement giant not fast on its feet, say dealers and challengers, but hard to knock down
SA-CCR proves a bitter pill for US banks to swallow
Dealers concerned new regime will punish some business lines with rise in risk-weighted assets
US election scenarios: meltdown fears if poll contested
Crowdsourced election scenarios show sharp falls and correlation breaks if Trump challenges results
Fight against dirty money falters in blizzard of SARs
Authorities are swamped with suspicious activity reports, many of which are never investigated