Macroeconomics
Should the Fed mandate collateral pre-positioning at the discount window?
Supervisor wants banks to be ready to access central bank facilities, but formalising pre-positioning has some drawbacks
How Argentina’s financial tango could become a dance of death
Central bank and government’s unholy alliance is storing up further trouble for economy
FX options traders rethink vol drivers amid macro uncertainty
Market-makers believe more and more events will influence options pricing as political risk bubbles up during 2024
The AOCI elephant in the DFAST room
After March’s banking crisis, Fed stress tests should adopt harsher and wider ranging rate scenarios
The future of capital raising in Asia: inside Crédit Agricole CIB’s client-centric solution offerings
Asia’s fixed income markets represent a pool of prospects in which investors can allocate capital to markets that are relatively isolated from global macroeconomic trends
UK banks added £1.6bn to loan allowances in 2022
Increase in set-asides driven by stage-two and stage-three credit-loss reserves
Inflationary forces (and microbial soups)
The hold of central banks over inflation may be weaker than we thought
Wanted: radical ideas for inflation modelling
Hedge funds echo Mervyn King’s calls for a new approach to inflation modelling post-2022 crisis
The impacts of financial and macroeconomic factors on financial stability in emerging countries: evidence from Turkey’s nonperforming loans
The authors assess the impacts of financial and macroeconomic factors on financial stability in emerging economies, using Turkey's banking sector in the period 2005 Q1 to 2020 Q3 as their example.
Erste, RBI top up provisions with €258m in overlays
Austrian lenders remain reliant on model supplements as energy squeeze looms
Trends in global credit markets: the rise of credit default swap clearing in a shifting landscape
As macroeconomic and geopolitical turmoil continues, credit market participants are increasingly looking to clearing for its risk management capabilities and post-trade efficiencies. With a major shift in the clearing landscape under way, Michael Amakye,…
Macroeconomic exposures of style indexes: what you don’t know could hurt you
Melissa Brown, managing director of applied research at Qontigo, reveals how changes in the macroeconomic environment can influence portfolio risk across a range of investing styles
StanChart tackles US-China rates divergence
Talking Heads 2022: Policy changes have upended correlations in emerging markets, says rates head Lettich
Erste sees provisions rising fourfold in gas embargo scenario
Vienna-based bank wargamed for an unlikely but devastating halt to Russian gas shipments
Amid macro storm clouds, a silver linings playbook for fintech
Banks and VCs believe inflation and rising interest rates will result in winners as well as losers
Empirical research on the relationship between renewable energy consumption, foreign direct investment and economic growth in South Asia
This paper scrutinizes the link between renewable energy consumption, foreign direct investment (FDI) and economic progress in South Asian countries.
Inflation scenarios, pt II: end of the party
Whether inflation rises or falls, crowdsourced scenarios forecast huge range of outcomes
Covid-19 and the credit cycle: 2020 revisited and 2021 outlook
This study continues the author’s examination and forecasts as to the impact of Covid-19 on the US credit cycle after one and a half years since the pandemic first began.
Does economic policy uncertainty exacerbate corporate financial distress risk?
This paper adds to the literature on factors driving distress risk and the economic consequences of economic policy uncertainty, and it provides a basis for enterprises to respond to changes in policies.
Inflation hedges flat among US funds, while payers surge
Counterparty Radar: Total inflation-receiver positions inched up in Q1, while inflation-paying books leapt 44%