Coronavirus
Op risk data: BNP faces €150m bill from mortgage loan sales
Also: Maybank, ING and MUFG hit by $300m commodities trading fraud. Data from ORX News
For FX dealers, virus brings volumes
Mixed feelings for sell-side traders as Covid-19 spurs wave of speculation and hedging
Dispersion trades suffer in coronavirus selloff
Losses put at roughly $150m – even before markets tanked on March 9
SOFR drought, CB accounts for CCPs, and the Top 10 Op Risks
The week on Risk.net, February 29–March 6, 2020
A peek inside op risk managers’ coronavirus response
Op risk managers steel their firms for looming pandemic amid an expected rise in cyber attacks
Alt data lends a different light to coronavirus impact
Smog, traffic data – even movie rentals – help analysts track economic effects of virus
Factor strategies seesaw in coronavirus-hit markets
Quants struggle to second-guess ongoing effect of virus on investments
Top 10 operational risks for 2020
The biggest op risks for 2020, as chosen by industry practitioners
Top 10 op risks 2020: geopolitical risk
Nationalism, trade wars and epidemics make for a heady cocktail
FX options volumes surged last week amid market panic
USD/JPY options traded volumes highest since at least the start of 2018
IT disruption chief concern in Top 10 Op Risks survey 2020
Risk managers cite data compromise, theft & fraud and third-party risk among other top worries
AI, low-capital CFOs and the spread of uncertainty
The week on Risk.net, February 22–28, 2020
FX options see record volumes as yen goes off-script
Coronavirus outbreak and recession fears trigger frenzied trading in USD/JPY options
Who killed FX volatility?
Beyond central bank policy, traders see a range of hidden structural factors at work