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Europe’s next chore: cleaning a floor made messy by the US
Rejection of Basel III’s output floor leaves EU with some difficult decisions to make
AmEx posts highest LCR among US banks on return to disclosure
Retail and contractual flows dominate 30-day stress scenario
ECC risk chief says Iran crisis will not delay VAR transition
Incorporating 2022 Ukraine shock ensured new margin model is robust in face of energy volatility
Market-makers give mixed verdict as CME Spot+ turns one
Traders encouraged by depth of liquidity despite wider spreads and passive performance qualms
G-Sibs face daily data headache from US surcharge proposal
Move to more frequent measurement would be “massively burdensome”, says senior exec
Vol control indexes rewire for V-shaped rebounds
Dealers aim to fix sluggish performance of indexes that underpin $130 billion-a-year FIA market
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Artificial intelligence
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
Regulators question human-in-the-loop as AI governance tool
Bank of England and FSB executives suggest it’s more important to retain overall accountability
Banks in Asia turn to integrated third-party risk units
Regional and global firms create centres of excellence bridging first and second lines
MI9: runtime governance for agentic AI systems
A real-time telemetry system for banks to control and authorise for agentic AI actions
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AmEx posts highest LCR among US banks on return to disclosure
Retail and contractual flows dominate 30-day stress scenario
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
EU weighs response to US dropping Basel capital floors
European regulators assessing whether US proposal amounts to a “substantial” deviation
European Commission plans permanent changes to FRTB
EU legislator will start work on new rules later this year to ensure level playing field with US
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
Dollar smiles again, but for how long?
Twitchy investors backed the buck during Iran war, but experts are divided on whether this marks a return of the dollar smile
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
For Esma the supervisor, people power will be prime
Industry hopes to avoid people risk during transition, with help from national authorities
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