North America
Limited RWA gains support rethink on Fed output floor
Advanced approaches cut RWAs only marginally across US banks
HSBC, Mizuho, US Bancorp ensnared by endgame CVA rule
Notional-based backstop leaves most banks exempt from capitalising non-cleared trades
US blows the floors off Basel III
Barr criticises “downward deviations” in US rule; Bowman rejects “blind adherence” to global standards
Ellington spinout hopes to ease whole-loan investing
Data hurdles have frustrated insurers as they look to increase allocations
Pimco slashes short dollar forwards at year-end
Counterparty Radar: EUR/USD cuts drive $86.5 billion reduction
Ice CDS volumes surge as investors hedge Iran shock
Single-name volumes outpace indexes as investors target specific risks
Oil clearing volumes surge at Ice, CME
Ice Europe nears Brent clearing record midway through March
Oil producers hedge rally with Brent shorts
Energy firms hedge oil spike as funds position for further gains
Interest rate crosswinds buffet IRRBB teams
Political intervention and rapid-fire law changes are skewering bank models for forecasting cashflows
FCMs held record customer funds on eve of Iran war
F&O funds climbed 6% in February as seven brokers set new records
Hopes rise for cross-product netting under SA-CCR
Banks want rule change in Basel III endgame to lower capital costs of clearing UST repos
Ice’s Sprecher: institutional prediction bets ‘a matter of time’
Longer-term vision for ‘niche’ energy event contracts may be aided by recent Polymarket tie-up
CME’s Duffy warns against government intervention in oil markets
Exchange head doesn’t rule out possibility of oil hitting $150 a barrel
Equity trading volumes surge at Canadian, Singaporean banks
Seven of eight lenders post double-digit rise in 2025, early systemic data shows
CME outages hit eight-year high in Q4
Operational failures totalling 8.5 hours most severe since 2017
Goldman tripped up by VAR in Q4
BNY and Citizens also record backtesting exceptions
US banks trim long-dated bonds to 10-year low
Medium-term securities reach record as 5+ year share hits decade low
Stressed liquidity flows swell at Canadian banks
Derivative and repo activity push up LCR cash flows at RBC, TD and Scotiabank
US banks lose appetite for Treasuries as G-Sibs turn to trading book
Two-year surge in non-trading USTs plateaus as HFT bonds tick up
EU clearing houses pressured to diversify cloud vendors
CROs and regulators see tech concentration risk as a barrier to operational resilience
Exposures with undisclosed risk-weights hit new highs at US banks
Assets in the ‘other’ category of standardised risk-weights grow to $700bn