Opinion/Regulation
Bank market-making is more limited, but also more robust
Liquidity is a concern, but lower capital requirements are not the answer, writes SNB's Rime
The drawn-out death of a standard IRRBB charge
For 23 years, regulators have been trying – and failing – to standardise banking book rates risk
Cutting Edge introduction: No more shortfalls?
Academics develop expected shortfall backtest to compare standardised and internal models
Operational risk: what do the regulators expect?
Ariane Chapelle offers some advice on how to avoid unnecessary scrutiny from supervisors
Europe's new supervisory toolkit
Data and transparency remain challenges for EBA
US spoofing crackdown is a case of misplaced priorities
There are worse HFT practices than spoofing, yet only spoofers go to jail
Time to get back to the real business of stress testing?
Bank supervisors should focus on improving internal stress-testing all year round
To breach or not to breach: Mifid II and the reporting wrangle
Rules double down on existing clash with national privacy laws
Note to Brussels: energy firms are not banks
Extending capital requirements to commodities firms is a mistake
In-depth introduction: US extraterritoriality
Confusion over Commodity Futures Trading Commission approach to cross-border supervision
Expected shortfall’s silver lining
Despite continuing to insist that replacing value-at-risk with expected shortfall in the Basel Capital accord is wrongheaded and potentially dangerous, David Rowe argues that the shift may have an important silver lining
In-depth introduction: Japan
Senior officials at the BoJ and JFSA speak to Risk.net about QE, Basel III and more
Upwardly mobile: how UK lawmakers are tackling mobile payments
An analysis of the regulatory framework for mobile payments and payment systems
Getting a conviction for Hayes was the least the SFO could do
The UK Serious Fraud Office had every advantage in the prosecution of Tom Hayes – even a taped confession. The next case may not be as easy
How to fix the leverage ratio (by a prudential regulator)
“Embarrassing … ridiculous”: unnamed regulator lets fly at leverage rules
Energy market liquidity faces threat from regulation
Financial rules putting progress towards liquid and transparent markets at risk
Why Europe’s QE resembles a CDS trade
Minenna of Italy's market regulator warns of serious unintended consequences
In-depth introduction: Mifid II
New rules have the power to transform markets - and baffle participants
Can anyone be expected to manage a modern bank?
Misbehaviour at banks may not just be result of poor management
Cher of the blame: whose fault was the swaps push-out?
Question is not why provision died, but how it was ever born
Conduct remedies should focus on value not price
Regulator overlooking wider customer benefits, says PwC's Steve Folkard
O’Malia: Swap data fix requires global library
Frustrating, costly, inefficient – but swap reporting can be fixed, says Isda CEO
In-depth introduction: Clearing incentives
Price hikes at Goldman Sachs show how much pressure FCMs are under
Video – Asia's illiquid markets complicate CCP default process: Isda
Directional portfolios and limited diversification will hamper recovery process