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Germany scrambles to shut the door on Mifid open access
Finance ministry will face fine timing to reverse clearing rule during its EU presidency
Climate risk-weighting: the devil and the deep blue sea
Should capital charges be calibrated to climate risk? European banks test the waters
The human touch: SMCR extension reaches smaller firms
Extended to nearly 50,000 firms, UK regime aims to pinpoint responsibility, from money laundering to #MeToo
Why Europe’s markets might need Mifid III
Lawmakers leaning towards small-scale review, others call for fuller rewrite
Clearing house power-downs raise fears among members
Banks question CCP resilience to system outages, as debate swirls over non-default losses
Quants clone private equity: pale imitation or real deal?
Theory says replication can work, but investors are reluctant to give up private equity’s smoothed returns
Bad clocks block forex best-ex
To get a good deal in fast-moving forex markets, buy-side firms need to know the time. Some don’t
HKEX outage zapped key hedge; now banks push for rule change
Dealers seek shutdown of CBBC market if futures go dark
Robo-raters help banks vet vendors for cyber risk
Specialists tout service for monitoring third parties amid tougher rules on outsourcing risk
Cat risk: why forecasting climate change is a disaster
Forecasters are poles apart on climate-driven catastrophes; insurers fear worse ahead
UK financials pilot £4bn Sonia bond switch
Lloyds, Santander UK and Nationwide follow ABP with legacy bond transition
All clear? Structural shifts add to repo madness
Many things contributed to 10% repo, among them a FICC programme and a surge in overnight funding
Structural snags frustrate STS for synthetics
Curbs on excess spread and collateral stymie route to ‘high-quality’ signifier
Buy side builds bots to cut trade costs
With margins under pressure, investment firms are looking to accelerate automation push
Double trouble: don’t blur FRTB deadlines, warns ECB
Ignoring reporting model deadline could muddy capital approval cut-off
Cultural appropriation: private equity goes quant
Machines are helping venerable shops find under-the-radar performers and factors that drive them
When climate risk starts to bite
Energy firms under increased pressure to assess physical climate risk
Fund fears linger over guidelines set to avert fire sales
Final Esma framework allays some European asset managers’ concerns
Deal misfires expose risk of contingent hedging
Banks hike premiums on deal contingent swaps amid Brexit uncertainty
On CCP oversight, US and EU may be closer than they appear
Competing proposals on foreign CCP oversight have more in common than recent rhetoric implies
IFRS 9 flings loan-loss provisions haphazardly higher
Under the standard, cash piles for bad loans were expected to ramble. Just not quite so much
European FRTB proposals spark XVA overload fears
Banks warn of overly complex revaluation process and heightened risk of backtest fails
How banks game stress tests: the ‘shocking’ truth
Leaked memo exposes effort to swap out risky assets despite Fed’s push to end “window dressing”
How bad is bad? A look at 30 small banks in China
An anxious China has rescued three banks this year. At least 25 more share some of their worst traits