Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS)
Accounting for initial margin under IFRS 13
Chris Kenyon and Richard Kenyon show why initial margin should be part of the fair value of a derivative
Focus on Basel output floor calibration misses the point
Until all the final standardised approaches are known, the floor has little meaning
Basel capital floor faces credit risk eclipse
Impact of capital floor depends on new credit risk rules and changes to treatment of provisions
US learns to play the Basel game
Mnuchin report marks a US regulatory shift – from leadership to gamesmanship
Revised SMA could allow banks to ignore past op risk losses
Leaked proposals say loss component will be left to national regulators, threatening an unlevel playing field
Three lines of defence model still evolving, say practitioners
Clearer split in responsibilities between first and second lines needed, say op risk chiefs
Don’t let the SMA kill op risk modelling
The SMA is not a good response to the AMA’s failings – but don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater
FRTB standardised approach threatens commodity hedging
Basel language would force unnatural treatment of offsetting positions
Banks worry FRTB will fracture Asian trading desks
Rules could produce “lots of little country desks”, warns StanChart market risk head
Basel opts for aggregate bank capital output floor
Banks will have more flexibility on use of internal models, but calibration still undecided
Basel group said to weigh changes to key FRTB test
EC and EBA officials criticise low pass rates for P&L attribution test
Delay revised Basel capital rules, say bankers
Regulatory heads at JP Morgan and BNP Paribas recommend regulatory recess
Custodians could face higher Basel G-Sib surcharges
Data shows removal of cap on substitutability in revised methodology would hit four banks
Banks diving into credit data pools as official support grows
European regulators embrace external data for internal modelling of credit risk capital
Banks mull dedicated IFRS 9 capital buffers
Volatility of loan-loss provisioning from new accounting standard demands additional own-funds protection, say banks
EU regulator dampens SA-CCR reform hopes
Isda AGM: EBA acknowledges approach’s shortcomings, but warns Basel is not reconsidering
Industry divided on case for European phase-in of FRTB
Isda AGM: transition period may allow time for Basel to recalibrate rules, panellists note
Giancarlo: SLR change would cut clearing capital by 70%
Isda AGM: netting of clearing collateral would boost activity without weakening banks, claims CFTC chair
MEP: Basel too slow to deal with clearing capital clash
Isda AGM: Swinburne criticises Basel’s lethargy on clash between leverage and clearing rules
Rethink urged over Basel’s counterparty exposure framework
Industry calls for softening of SA-CCR amid claims it could lead to doubling of calculated exposures
How Europe can fix the Basel IRRBB standards
Building an outlier test for interest income would be better than the standardised EVE approach
A sound modelling and backtesting framework for forecasting initial margin requirements
Anfuso, Aziz, Loukopoulos and Giltinan propose a method to develop and backtest forecasting models for IM
European banks tire of CVA guessing game
Continued political wrangling over Europe’s CVA exemption increases uncertainty for dealers
Does initial margin eliminate counterparty risk?
Andersen, Pykhtin and Sokol show the existence of residual exposure after initial margin posting