Litigation
Federal tough legacy fix gives nod to alternative rates
Legislation does not “disfavor” alternative rates, but safe harbour may not stretch beyond SOFR
Top 10 op risks 2021: employee wellbeing
All-encompassing impact of Covid leaves employees with the feeling of ‘living from work’
Asia moves: Allianz adds two to China, Allen & Overy appoints new partner, and more
Latest job news across the industry
Antitrust fears cloud Isda protocol – and fallback spreads
Wait for DoJ assurances could delay Libor transition plans and further unsettle rates trading
Mental health: the new frontline for risk management
Rise in stress and anxiety among locked-down staff could open up banks to range of risks
Lawyers pick holes in Libor statutory fix
US ‘tough legacy’ contracts open to legal challenge even if proposed New York law is passed
Libor limbo: loan market fallback language upends lenders
Banks seek to replace painful fallback language in loan docs and avoid a cost-of-funds contingency
Show don’t tell: BoE’s climate stress test dilemma
Making the test easier to run could come at the expense of building risk management capacity
Legal woes dent Wells Fargo’s earnings
Of total operational losses in Q4, legal costs accounted for 79%
Asia moves: Soc Gen replaces Asia chief, Deutsche Bank appoints wealth management head, and more
Latest job changes across the industry
Wells Fargo op risk charge jumps $3.6bn in Q3
San Francisco-based lender still bound by standardised capital approach
Navigating the impact of climate risk on financial stability
As uncertainty abounds on the impact climate change may have on the industry, financial services firms must best equip themselves for potential regulatory and socioeconomic changes to ensure they maximise the opportunities of embracing new best practices…
CDS fix seeks support for January lift-off
Manufactured defaults protocol opens on September 13, forcing users to consider valuation impact
As legal losses recede, Morgan Stanley's op risk falls
Bank cuts op RWAs 7% in the first quarter
EU-Singapore trade deal awakens sovereign restructuring fears
Many worry that EU government bonds are now in play for international arbitration
Legislative fix sought for Libor fallbacks
Federal law makes it “almost impossible” to change benchmark rates for FRNs
The initial margin challenge – Why the bang just got bigger
With uncertainty abounding as the industry heads into the final phases of implementation of the uncleared margin rules (UMR), Jean‑Paul Botha, delivery lead of financial trade documentation at Thomson Reuters Legal Managed Services, explores the…
Nomura’s capital ratio edges lower as RWAs skip higher
Legal wrangle with US Federal Housing Finance Agency swells risk-weighted assets
Quants tout exposure-based approach to op risk modelling
Ebor especially suited to modelling loss events such as legal claims, say proponents
European banks op risk losses dominated by business failures
Losses relating to accident and neglect account for 38% of op risk losses at eight big dealers
Operational risk measurement beyond the loss distribution approach: an exposure-based methodology
In this paper, the authors present an alternative quantification technique, so-called exposure-based operational risk (EBOR) models, which aim to replace historical severity curves by measures of current exposures and use event frequencies based on…
Banco Popular bondholders turn US spotlight on Santander
Discovery application could shift compensation focus to the buyer instead of the SRB
Not the top 10 op risks
From gender discrimination to the next PPI, a veteran manager looks at forthcoming potential op risks
Upholding values: bondholders demand resolution transparency
Banco Popular case could have wider implications for future bank bail-ins