Accounting
Fed to ease CECL capital impact
Phase-in of capital impacts over three years proposed
ECL regimes a volatile brew of risk and accounting
Fed asks banks to propose a solution to address CECL-CCAR mismatch
Banks grapple with IFRS 9 and CECL loan loss forecasting
Ambiguity in rules sets up potential clash between banks and auditors over “reasonable and supportable” projections
Brexit: banks take the ‘no’ out of novations
Swaps clauses stop end-users blocking counterparty switch, making it easier to move trades to EU affiliates
Singapore’s banks frontload IFRS 9 provisioning hit
UOB, OCBC announce $1.4 billion set-asides in Q4 results to account for oil and gas loan exposures
Breaking the collateral silos – Navigating regulation with a strategic alternative
Emmanuel Denis, head of tri‑party services at BNP Paribas Securities Services, discusses why financial institutions must rethink old practices of collateral management and instead adopt a tri-party approach, with which equities can be managed as…
Bosses escape blame for options blow-up at Swedish bank
Court rules negligence by former managers and auditor of HQ Bank did not cause 2010 licence withdrawal
LCH and Eurex extend new swap VM treatment
Three US banks used method to cut swaps assets by more than $300bn in third quarter
People: Shell’s Quartermain replaces Muller
Other moves at Morgan Stanley, Gunvor, Macquarie and others
Unified data – Key to IFRS 9 implementation
Regulatory information brief part II – Benchmarks
CVA pay day: calculation arbitrage boosts bank profits
Lack of convergence allows some banks to benefit from an arbitrage between booking and pricing the adjustment
FASB to vote on hedge accounting for US Libor successor
Standards body likely to approve SOFR as eligible
How IFRS 9 can unite risk and accounting
Regulatory information brief part I – Modelling
Fishing for Sifis: row over Nobel laureate’s risk model
Engle’s tool for ranking risky firms is one of many that are dividing industry, academics and regulators
BAML and Morgan Stanley swaps drop $186bn on VM change
At least seven banks now using settled-to-market treatment for variation margin
Cecl pitting risk managers against accountants, says quant boss
Banks are ‘all over the place’ on modelling expected credit losses, says Regions’ Maglic
US hedge accounting changes could spur small bank swaps boom
Banks eye opportunities to claim hedge accounting treatment for fixed-rate portfolios and callable debt
All MVA needs is a first-mover
Fair value adjustment for initial margin should be reflected in accounting statement
Insurance accounting shake-up puts risk centre stage
IFRS 17 will create a closer link between insurers' risk management and P&L volatility