Europe
Burning ambition: will Europe join the US in setting fire to the rules?
As the US dismantles post-crisis regulations, some think Europe will follow in a bid to boost economic growth
Off the grid? Dealers mull XVA cloud shift
Risk Benchmarking: 69% of European banks still run core XVA calculations predominantly on-premises, and 75% of global dealers
DZ Bank ditches slotting approach for project finance exposures
German bank transfers €8.6bn in RWAs to F-IRB methodology following regulatory approval
Swiss franc loan losses are a grey rhino for EU consumer finance
Impact on Polish banks exposed a blind spot on modelling legal risk that has wider implications, says mBank CRO Marek Lusztyn
European banks’ derivatives exposures surge 11% in six months
PFE add-ons account for nearly two-thirds of increase, driving largest jump since 2022
Industry pushes EU exchanges to solve equity post-trade frictions
Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan join calls for mandatory cash CCP interoperability
Sell side losing fight over dirty CSAs, data shows
Risk Benchmarking exercise finds growing buy-side push for collateral flexibility
Commerz, Lloyds, BPCE top European banks for interest rate sensitivity
Eight lenders face potential EVE losses exceeding 10% of Tier 1 capital under rate shocks
European banks’ SFT exposures jump 14% to record €881bn
Eighteen of 29 lenders reach all-time highs; big repo and securities lending increases for German banks
Op risk data: EFG takes a bath for two decades of money laundering
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Barclays, SocGen lead European banks to new corporate SRT highs
Corporate loan retained exposures up $31bn at European G-Sibs
French regulator wants permanent changes to EU’s output floor
Push for capital relief faces resistance from supervisors in Finland and the Netherlands
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
Council plans take Aquis, BME out of Esma oversight
German push to exempt Deutsche Börse catches three others, according to sources
UniCredit CVA RWAs double amid Commerz stake build-up
Bank cites strategic transactions as driver of the surge
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
European UST holdings overtake Asia for first time
China and Japan see declines in US Treasuries while UK holdings approach $1trn
‘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
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
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