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Banks welcome US overhaul of AML rules
Proposals signal shift to risk-based approach to financial crime detection
State regulators could lead on CFTC climate risk plans
Sympathetic rulemakers don’t need to wait for a change of federal government, say experts
Credit swap portfolios contracted at systemic US banks in Q2
Sold notionals fell 8% over the three months to end-June
Systemic US banks crushed cleared OTC notionals in Q2
Outstanding amounts fall 12% quarter-on-quarter
Autocalamity: can hit product be reinvented?
Spreads on ‘worst-of’ bonds leap 50% as some dealers retreat and others pile on hedges
US bank systemic risk indicators stay elevated through Q2
Increase in exposures, short-term wholesale funding bump systemic risk scores higher at some firms
JP Morgan shook up market risk stress tests in Q2
Bank switched stressed VAR historical periods 60 times
Securities lender of the year: JP Morgan
Asia Risk Awards 2020
Collateral manager of the year: JP Morgan
Asia Risk Awards 2020
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Winners of the Asia Risk Awards and Technology Awards
Dealers vie with Markit to electronify bond issuance
Competing platforms could split the market for new issuance in Europe and the US
Imperfect balance? Clearers weigh EU’s CCP resolution tools
Potential levels of loss mutualisation under EU rules are unnerving some clearing members
Top US banks’ counterparties’ credit quality deteriorated in Q2
At Citi, exposures with a PD of 10% to 100% increased 73% quarter on quarter
Alternative markets give edge to Florin Court strategy
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OTC swaps exposures of systemic US banks fell back in Q2
Aggregate current credit exposures to hedge funds falls 42% quarter on quarter
Deposit flows shape systemic US banks’ liquidity risk
Non-operational deposits accounted for over 25% of cash outflows in Q2
US banks’ corporate default indicators worsened in Q2
Median probability of default increases 38bp to 1.7% on the quarter
Systemic US banks’ liquidity ratios rebounded in Q2
Aggregate liquid assets increased 15% quarter on quarter
Facebook’s libra could disrupt collateral markets – IMF paper
Collateral used to back ‘stablecoins’ such as libra will be unavailable for reuse
Systemic US banks’ leverage exposures shrank $1.4tn in Q2
On-balance sheet exposures fall on Fed relief
FCM client margin ebbed from record highs over Q2
Goldman Sachs was the only FCM to increase swaps margin significantly
Citi, Goldman, had most winning trading days of top banks in Q2
In aggregate, US G-Sibs racked up 314 profit-making days over the quarter
SOFR basis blows out amid CCP discounting changes
Rate cuts may have exacerbated discount risk as basis swap opt-outs move deeply in-the-money
Cross-currency confusion stalks FCA announcements
Possibility of RFR fallbacks setting on different dates creating valuation issues, say banks