The Americas
Buy-side physical FX clearing at LCH faces scepticism
Lack of clearing mandate and settlement wrangles mean demand for putative service remains weak
People moves: new CRO at LCH, changes at Natixis investment bank, and more
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Expected European loan losses push up Santander’s Q4 credit reserves
Full-year LLP came to €12.2 billion, contributing to an overall loss in 2020
Risk solutions house of the year: Santander
Risk Awards 2021: agile approach kept complex transactions on track during pandemic
Don’t blame CCPs’ models for Covid margin spikes – WFE
Lobby group counters popular view that tools could ease procyclicality; puts focus on liquidity management
People news: Yarian leaves HSBC, Goldman’s Lemkau joins MSD Partners, and more
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Regions deploys early-warning tool for credit risk
Risk USA: system alerted US superregional to impending defaults during Covid crisis
US election scenarios: meltdown fears if poll contested
Crowd-sourced election scenarios show sharp falls and correlation breaks if Trump challenges results
Hammer time? Clearers mull co-operation on default auctions
Some CCPs are mooting joint auctions to resolve large defaults – but critics deem them unworkable
A peek inside op risk managers’ coronavirus response
Op risk managers steel their firms for looming pandemic amid an expected rise in cyber attacks
Neuberger Berman gets its Sherlock on
Asset manager deploys quant-cum-sleuth to sniff out portfolio risk
Top 10 operational risk losses of 2019
Fraud, embezzlement, tax evasion, subprime (still) and rogue trading – and Citi crops up twice. Data by ORX News
Lending to shadow banks accelerates – BIS
Annualised growth rate of loans to non-bank financial institutions hits 13%
Basel III risk-weight changes to tax European banks most
Risk-weighting of IRB exposures to increase 2.8% overall
Funding risk of global banks varies
Basel study shows European banks have seen net cash outflows increase just 7.7% in four years
Scotiabank eyes capital savings following divestments
Wind down of overseas investments expected to increase CET1 capital ratio by 50bp
Santander's pivot to LatAm hikes trading risk
Interest rate risk in Brazil pushes average VAR higher
The biggest stories from Isda’s 2019 AGM
From new uses of SOFR to non-modellable risk factors in Asia – here are the 10 best stories from the conference
Quant Finance Master’s Guide 2019
Risk.net’s guide to the world’s leading quant master’s programmes, featuring a ranking of the top 15 schools
Asia moves: Corbally becomes ANZ’s chief risk officer as Williams retires
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Sponsored Q&A: BBVA
World Bank bets on compression for EM currencies
NY-based start-up LMRKTS gets backing to support illiquid markets
Law firm of the year: Davis Polk
Structured Products Americas Awards 2017: Davis Polk is at the heart of regulatory discussions
Deal of the year: JP Morgan
Structured Products Americas Awards 2017: JP Morgan note ignites dormant QRP market