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Op risk data: EFG takes a bath for two decades of money laundering
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Hedge funds shelved yen basis bet on US deal
Funds exited USD/JPY flatteners tied to Japan’s $550bn pledge and new funding may not revive the trade
Emirates NBD fund RWAs surge 480%
Bank’s first reported use of look-through approach coincides with RBL acquisition
BRL bulls hold firm after Bolsonaro first-round win
Hedge funds keep USD/BRL puts ahead of election run-off as protection premiums for Lula upset soar
AI boom turns Morgan Stanley into a hot commodity
Talking Heads 2026: Data centres need long-dated power and gas hedges that only a big bank can provide
Choppy Q1 precedes big Q2 for US rates books
Interest rate and inflation swaps hit notional records, filings show, while mutual funds pile into Euribor and Sonia swaptions
RBC, Scotiabank securitisation RWAs hit record highs
SEC-SA RWAs rise 23% across major Canadian banks, led by C$1.5bn increase at RBC
Imminent US shake-up of LCR slated to include discount window
Adding Fed liquidity facility to bank regulation may help overcome stigma, raise lending capacity
Kookmin’s SFTs surge 40% on higher repo
Record securities financing transactions contributes to 15bp leverage ratio drop
PGGM sees a chance to diversify with fourth-trigger CDSs
Dutch pension manager hopes bank demand will continue to grow for derivatives counterparty credit protection
How Quoniam boosted its sentiment strategy by adding an LLM
Upgraded system creates scores from more-informative forward-looking parts of news
Barclays, SocGen lead European banks to new corporate SRT highs
Corporate loan retained exposures up $31bn at European G-Sibs
An agentic bank? Not so fast
With no clear definition or way to gauge ROI, claims of AI adoption should be taken with a pinch of salt
Canton: has Wall Street found its blockchain?
Network and privacy behind Digital Asset spin-off’s tilt at next-gen settlement
Basel III capital hit on G-Sibs jumps sixfold in H2 2025
Estimated increase in Tier 1 requirements rises to 1.8% – highest since 2023
French regulator wants permanent changes to EU’s output floor
Push for capital relief faces resistance from supervisors in Finland and the Netherlands
NSE chief blames algos for India closing auction turmoil
Ashishkumar Chauhan said traders should retrain algos instead of asking Sebi to change closing auction
AI bond deluge tests credit market’s appetite
Credit strategists say multi-year, poorly telegraphed AI issuance strains investor portfolios
From Navier-Stokes to manuscripts by the kilo: AI’s impact on quant research
As AI produces results in bulk, finance needs trusted ways to assess provenance, reliability and significance
UniCredit CVA RWAs double amid Commerz stake build-up
Bank cites strategic transactions as driver of the surge
Council plans take Aquis, BME out of Esma oversight
German push to exempt Deutsche Börse catches three others, according to sources
Five Korean banks set records for non-operational deposit outflows in LCR
Wholesale funding and money market deposits rise as retail deposit flows slide
Why watering down resolution plans is a bad idea
Bank failures are inevitable; banking crises are not
NDF algo innovation rises as internal matching builds
Banks bolster offerings with new EM pairs and improved execution quality, in bid to increase internalisation
BIS’s Hernández de Cos on AI, non-bank risk and tokenisation
General manager talks about how the BIS is navigating a complex global environment
For enterprise risk, influence runs deeper than any veto
Risk Benchmarking study finds formal veto rights concentrated among the largest lenders, but used only as a last resort
European UST holdings overtake Asia for first time
China and Japan see declines in US Treasuries while UK holdings approach $1trn
Japan’s Great Repatriation? Don’t count on quick returns
Switch from Treasuries to JGBs by GPIF likely to be gradual, which may spell more bad news for hedge funds
Kalshi seeks CFTC approval for 10-year US Treasury perp
Extended review period for first-of-its-kind contract will run until November 29
US fund managers reshuffle dealer books amid new trading highs
Mutual funds, ETFs hit record FX forwards positions but retreat from options; insurers rotate counterparties
CCB’s securitisation risk-weighted assets nearly quadruple
Residential mortgage securitisations held as investor rise 42-fold in six months
CME’s single-stock futures rev up to overtake ‘ugly’ options trade
New cash-settled contracts with EFP facility could be an appealing alternative to reverse conversions
Intraday pricing: fixed income’s next frontier
With firms looking to price fixed income securities on an intraday basis, specialist pricing providers such as LSEG help address cost, complexity and time-to-market challenges
Tech and data fragmentation irks enterprise risk managers
Risk Benchmarking: Often at the mercy of decisions made by other parts of the bank, ERM heads gripe at disparate systems, poor UX and reporting gaps
‘European SEC’ no silver bullet for growth
EU policymakers hope a single, centralised supervisor will help rev up Europe’s economy but critics are mustering
UBS swaps funds spike 77% in August
Futures commission merchant reports highest customer funds since Credit Suisse takeover
People: CRO switches at Wells and Barclays, further SG shake-ups, and more
Latest job changes across the industry
Commodity and equity derivatives drive record liability gap at UK banks
Net derivatives balance narrows to lowest in a decade as liabilities rise faster than assets
Hedge funds crowd into bullish Brazilian real trades
Funds snap up FX options betting on stronger real after a Bolsonaro win
Permanent FRTB reforms seen as vital for IMA adoption
Temporary relief granted in June has done little to encourage internal model use in Europe
At bigger banks, enterprise risk owns scenario frameworks
Risk Benchmarking research finds ERM teams tasked with providing effective challenge on scenario construction across risk silos
How to ensure the next Credit Suisse or SVB fails ‘well’
Regulators are planning changes to resolution rules after criticism that living wills were ignored in previous bank collapses
JSCC’s cash securities division chalks up biggest-ever stress breach
Stress loss in excess of initial margin eclipsed default resources by ¥6.8bn in Q2
Asian firms waiting on exemptions from UST clearing mandate
Hoping for relief on extraterritoriality, 51% of Apac firms have yet to start compliance programmes
HSBC’s Orion sees cash leg challenge to tokenised bonds
Tradeweb and others agree more work needed before atomic settlement is achieved
Santander takes 90% share of European G-Sibs’ mortgage SRTs
Retained residential mortgage exposure at Spanish bank rises €4.3 billion in H1 2026
Euro Stoxx 50 to get major revamp
Removing supersector caps and more regular rebalancing could spur increased activity in eurozone index
Fund giants turbocharge Wells Fargo’s FX forwards book
US bank jumps from 12th to second in Q2 2026 dealer rankings as Pimco and Vanguard ramp up trading
Bank of China’s CVA exposures soar ahead of peers
The bank leads Chinese G-Sibs to log the largest quarterly increase on record
Month-long power glitch hits key Apac trade surveillance tool
Nasdaq’s alert functions were restored, but users say testing and calibration tools still disrupted
