Philip Alexander
Desk editor, Regulation
Philip Alexander is the risk management and regulation editor for Risk.net, overseeing a team of journalists in the UK, US and Asia. He was previously senior editor at The Banker magazine, covering financial regulation, capital markets, derivatives, and central and eastern Europe.
Prior to entering journalism, Philip edited sovereign credit research for rating agency Standard & Poor’s in London. He was awarded a PhD in modern history by the University of Cambridge for a thesis on Britain and European integration.
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Articles by Philip Alexander
EBA supports global op risk taxonomy, but it won’t happen soon
New EU framework designed to ease adoption by banks; other jurisdictions have different priorities
New EBA taxonomy could help integrate emerging op risks
Extra loss flags will allow banks to track transversal risks like geopolitics and AI, say experts
Has the Collins Amendment reached its endgame?
Scott Bessent wants to end the dual capital stack. How that would work in practice remains unclear
Cyber risk triggers alarm bells for credit portfolio managers
Attack on Jaguar Land Rover highlights difficulties modelling unpredictable impact of outages
Tariff turmoil tests limits of market risk playbooks
Risk Live: Volatile markets reveal need for quicker data and more dynamic risk limits
BoE official plays down fears of global regulatory fragmentation
Risk Live: UK expects close co-operation with US, while others express concern over Basel III endgame
How to reform the NSFR… and why regulators may never get there
Ideas for updating funding rules after SVB include recalibration and concentration limits
Amid tariff turmoil, banks warned not to fudge IFRS 9 overlays
Flip-flopping US policies challenge loan loss provisioning models; EU regulators take watching brief
Delving into the European Commission’s proposed overhaul of FRTB
Raft of potential changes would benefit both IMA and SA banks – but only temporarily
BoE warns over risk of system-wide cyber attack
Senior policy official Carolyn Wilkins also expresses concern over global fragmentation of bank regulation
Trump 2.0 bank supervision: simpler but no soft touch?
Republican FDIC vice-chair Travis Hill wants more focus on financial risk instead of process
Running the numbers on Barr’s Basel III endgame revisions
Fed vice-chair’s plan to ease capital requirements for big banks still lacks critical details