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Editorial: The definition of extraterritorial
US operations of Asian banks are feeling the effects of Dodd-Frank
The recent easing of the Basel III liquidity coverage ratio is welcome, but highlights the difficult – perhaps impossible – regulatory challenge of striking the right balance in a world of too-big-to-fail...
The long-awaited impact assessment on Omnibus II’s long-term guarantees package has finally been given the green light after months of political wrangling over the terms of reference. Yet, it is naïve...
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Revealing the secrets behind RWA vanishing tricks
It's not hard to understand the scepticism about risk-weighted asset (RWA) numbers. They can be very different at banks that appear fairly similar and even zip around at the same institution from one period to the next – analysts at Barclays revealed...
The forgotten pillars of Basel II
As well as doubling down on complexity, Basel III represents the triumph of Pillar I capital rules and the total neglect of Pillars II and III, David Rowe argues
Fatca, UBS and the rest of the Top 10 Risks
The new year will bring some dramatic changes - few of them good news for operational risk managers. The US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (Fatca), originally set to come into force at the start of 2013, has been delayed - but this isn't seen as positive...
What regulation means for traders: Less freedom, more work, new skills
Post-crisis regulation tends to be spoken about in pretty cold, impersonal terms – the pressure on bid-offer spreads or return-on-equity, for example. It’s easy to forget there is another type of impact – on the people who work in these markets...
Basel faulty
Having been broadly supportive of global bank capital standards over the past 25 years, David Rowe explains why the latest iteration of the framework has changed his stance
CCAR: a new holiday tradition
US bank risk managers are getting used to spending their winter festive period knee-deep in scenario analysis and stress-test data instead of relaxing by a log fire. And the tradition looks here to stay
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