Donald Trump
Who is Selig? CFTC pick is smart and social, but some say too green
Colleagues praise crypto smarts and collegial style, but views on prediction markets and funding trouble Senate
Asia’s bank risk managers brace for tariff stress
Banks keep a close eye on clients, and dust off risk transfer toolkit
How Amundi’s options strategy profited from dollar slump
French asset manager grabbed euro call options at low prices in tactical pivot for its FX absolute return fund
Johnson warns of governance vacuum as she leaves CFTC
Lack of commissioners risks stalling rulemaking at critical juncture for new crypto initiatives
How FX pricing is adapting to Trumpian markets
Dealers are tying pricing engines to new signals in effort to cope with out-of-the-blue moves
The investors who aren’t fretting over Trump’s stat sulk
Some see dismissal of statistics agency chief as an assault on US institutional integrity; for others it offers a chance to throw off outdated methods
Judy Shelton on gold, tariffs and where the Fed went wrong
Potential successor to Jerome Powell makes the case for cutting rates and tamping down dollar volatility
Taco trades and fake news fatigue
Is another era of ‘will he, won’t he’ numbing rates and FX traders to its jeopardy?
Mutual funds were USD bulls going into April’s tariff chaos
Counterparty Radar: Positioning in Q1 reflected market sentiment that tariffs would lead to a dollar rally
Fed succession planning: will Trump stick to the script?
The race to succeed Jerome Powell as head of the world’s most powerful central bank has already begun
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
Trump getting stuck in Washington ‘swamp’, says Scaramucci
Risk Live: Former White House comms director says lobbyists have become effective constraint on Trump agenda
US Basel III delay to 2026 seen as almost inevitable
Reprioritisation and leadership changes cast doubts on timing of new proposals
‘I feel like a guinea pig’ – lessons from an early IMA adopter
Risk Live: Nomura’s Epperlein urges flexible approach to backtesting exceptions
Bankers feeling even more bullish after tariff selloff
Risk Live: “This is a powerful bull market that has legs to run,” says former Credit Suisse CIO
Allocators try to stay strategic in a world turned upside down
Investors are revisiting long-held assumptions about how to allocate large pools of assets
Mr Bessent goes to Basel: the fate of global bank regulation
US resistance to international standards could spark greater fragmentation of prudential rules
EU banks want the cloud closer to home amid tariff wars
Fears over US executive orders prompt new approaches to critical third-party risk management
US has got what it wanted from Basel, say former regulators
Calls to stay at the table come after US Treasury Secretary condemned “outsourcing” of regulation
Wait in the Q: US banks hold back on tariff-related provisions
Lack of data on supply chain vulnerabilities creates challenges for early CECL adjustments
Markets are mispricing tariff uncertainty, say academics
Johns Hopkins economists warn of risk from changes to the ‘rules of the game’