United States
Weather, or not: is climate risk just part of credit risk?
Practitioners divided on whether climate risk can fit into existing credit risk weights
Basel III output floor set to bind 25% of large banks
Risk-based capital requirements would constrain the largest share of international lenders
Don’t bank on it: Fed urged to widen access to new repo facility
Central clearing of SRF’s repos and less unease over its use could also buoy glitchy Treasury market
European banks set for 17.6% capital hike under Basel III
Output floor expected to push Tier 1 capital requirements up 7.3% alone, latest BCBS monitoring report shows
Clear out: inside the equities takeover of Citi’s FCM
Clearing unit is being reshaped to support equities growth push
NSCC caught $5 billion short in June
Worst-case losses would have wiped out the CCP’s available liquid resources on two separate days in Q2
State Street launches tri-party custody for IM clients
Third-party provider begins shifting phase five clients to full-service collateral model
Citi hires treasury execs from JP, Citadel in equities push
New recruits arrive as bank’s equities head looks to restructure and integrate clearing division
OTC trading platform of the year: Tradeweb
Asia Risk Awards 2021
Phase five margin queues spur calls for custody revamp
Custodians urged to update “antiquated technology” ahead of three-fold jump in phase six initial margin onboarding
Brainard: stablecoins ‘front and centre’ of regulatory focus
Contender for top Fed role also called for activation of countercyclical capital buffer
Bank-backed futures utility criticised as too ambitious
Osttra’s Joanna Davies urges industry to look for “quick wins”
House of the year, Hong Kong: Crédit Agricole
Asia Risk Awards 2021
Systemic US banks’ bail-in buffers rose in Q2
Morgan Stanley posts largest amount of headroom, while Citi, State Street and Wells Fargo trail behind
BNP hits top spot for FX options
Counterparty Radar: French bank ousts long-time leader Citi as biggest dealer for mutual funds
BSBY swap fallbacks too flimsy for BMR – FCA
Pressure piles on SOFR alternative as US, UK regulators axe their role in Isda replacement waterfall
Sonia/SOFR swaps jump ahead of ‘RFR First’ initiative
Cross-currency swaps increasingly seeing RFRs on both legs
Bank consortium seeks to cure post-trade data ills
Project led by Societe Generale uses privacy-enhancing technologies to tackle data management problems
Amundi, Axa urge boardroom pay cuts for climate laggards
Link remuneration to carbon-emission goals and companies will get serious, say large investors
SEC’s Gensler questions BSBY’s Iosco compliance
Bloomberg’s credit-sensitive Libor alternative draws more criticism as Iosco vows tougher scrutiny
Off-balance-sheet exposures at US systemic banks jump $42bn
JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs and Citi drove the overall increase in the second quarter
Level 3 assets at global systemic banks down 36% since 2014
Hard-to-value holdings down sharply over the past six years, but pandemic threw spanner in the works at some banks
Fund industry bristles at rush to re-write MMF rules
ICI questions regulators’ assumptions about the role MMFs played in Covid-19 liquidity crunch
Majority of US G-Sibs’ assets attract sub-100% risk-weighting
Risk Quantum analysis shows top US banks retrenched to lower-risk assets through the pandemic