Financial institutions
A chilly reception for climate risk capital
Bankers don’t believe climate-adjusted risk-weights will enter EU prudential framework – not for now, at least
Uncertainty over ECB’s TPI muddies monetary and fiscal impact
Analysts say anti-fragmentation tool exposes long-standing flaws in EU fiscal framework
Rethinking regulation of the modern financial system
Rules must address uncertainty and risks, and not be too complex, says Bank of Italy's Trapanese
US deposits from Russia hit record $43.5bn after invasion
Rush to stash cash followed walling-off of Russian financial system by sanctions
People moves: JPM’s quant shuffle, NatWest hires Solanki, and more
Latest job changes across the industry
Single climate risk metric ‘not realistic’, says Bank of England
Senior official argues banks and investors must weigh up multiple factors when assessing climate risk
Fraud and compliance 2.0: wising up to next-generation technology and boosting payment fraud detection
Fraud can take place due to checks occurring too late in the payment process, after the payer believes the payment has been confirmed. This webinar explores how simplifying the payment process by connecting compliance directly at the point of payment…
On Russia, finance needs to find its moral compass
The looming risk of big write-offs should prompt investor rethink
Op risk outlook 2022: the legal perspective
Christoph Kurth, partner of the global financial institutions leadership team at Baker McKenzie, discusses the key themes emerging from Risk.net’s Top 10 op risks 2022 survey and how financial firms can better manage and mitigate the impact of…
Emerging trends in op risk
Karen Man, partner and member of the global financial institutions leadership team at Baker McKenzie, discusses emerging op risks in the wake of the Covid‑19 pandemic, a rise in cyber attacks, concerns around conduct and culture, and the complexities of…
Shell-company registry might not halt US dirty money, say experts
Observers raise questions over verifying beneficial owner info on proposed FinCEN database
Liquidity risk rose at most CCPs in Q3
JSCC, CME, Ice and Eurex among those that revised their VM estimates
Leveraging a hybrid cloud for better decision‑making
At a Risk.net webinar in association with open-source solutions provider Red Hat and analytics services provider SAS, panellists discussed how financial institutions can leverage the hybrid cloud to analyse data, reach trustworthy decisions and maximise…
SMFG reports highest power sector emissions intensity
Across all systemic banks, only eight dealers disclose their GHG emissions for this field
Asia moves: Trio of senior hires at Barclays, Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank, and more
Latest job changes across the industry
Climate risk takes scenario analysis and stress-testing to the next level
Financial institutions are facing several challenges as they prepare for the transition risk journey that will see them evaluating their existing risk and finance solutions. Ludwig Dickens, client advisor, risk business consulting, at SAS discusses what…
Systemic banks: black boxes on green issues
Less talk and more action needed around climate disclosures linked to carbon emissions
Agency problems in multinational banks: does parent complexity affect the risk-taking of subsidiaries?
This paper empirically reviews the relationship between the geographical complexity of parent-groups and the risk-taking behavior of subsidiaries using a panel of data for Polish domestically owned and foreign-owned banks covering the years 2008–17.
Most G-Sibs fail to disclose financed emissions
None of the world’s top 30 banks disclose climate impact of their whole portfolio
Data-driven execution: looking back to see forward
Reviewing favourable outcomes and attempting to replicate them is by no means a new concept across the capital markets. Portfolio managers, execution professionals and risk managers use this principle to drive their decisions, although it is really only…
Solving the data challenge: technical solutions for optimisation of risk management, capital and liquidity resources
Since the financial crisis that began in 2007–08, regulatory pressure on requirements around capital adequacy, liquidity, funding, balance sheet size and leverage has become increasingly intense. As a consequence, financial institutions need to manage…
Operational resilience: charting evolution, strengthening impact
Arming a business in preparation for robust operational resilience measures is not a one-step solution – it continues to evolve. The key to strengthening defences against all events – especially the unlikely but plausible – is to build business agility…
Time-varying tail dependence networks of financial institutions
In this paper time-varying tail dependence networks are constructed to investigate the complex interdependencies in the financial system.
A regulatory push is key for a post‑Libor world
An online webinar hosted by Tradeweb and convened by Asia Risk explores the importance of directives and timings being clearly laid out by regulators in the transition away from Libor