Regulators
Esma supervisory switch could become ‘distraction’
Push to transform watchdog might hinder market reforms, say some
Basel III endgame: overall relief hides winners and losers
G-Sibs gain from surcharge reform while AOCI hits regional banks
Do banks still need to validate GenAI models?
Regulators carved out GenAI models from new risk guidance. Banks shouldn’t see this as a reason to stop validating them.
AI in Apac regulatory reporting: the growing case for agentic automation
How Apac banks are tackling the regulatory reporting challenge, and what it will take to scale AI responsibly in this area
Top 10 operational risks for 2026
Industry shares intel on biggest collective threats, as well as remedies and loss gauges
EU regulators clash over ceding supervision to Esma
Belgian and Spanish regulators differ on drive for centralised oversight of cross-border firms
ALM has no formal role in capital planning at a third of banks
Risk Benchmarking study finds banks split three ways on policy mandates, with G-Sibs as likely as small regionals to assign ALM formal responsibility
BoE’s SSITG proposal could lead to $333m additional CCP capital
Plan would expand own-capital tranches deployed alongside member contributions at LCH, Ice and LME
Bowman’s Fed may limp on by after cuts
New vice-chair seeks efficiency, but staff clear-out could hamper functions, say former regulators
Who is Selig? CFTC pick is smart and social, but some say too green
Colleagues praise crypto smarts and collegial style, but views on prediction markets and funding trouble Senate
Basel Committee members ‘buying time’ before fixing FRTB mess
Despite inconsistencies today, regulators maintain they want to align global regime eventually
Thrown under the Omnibus: will GAR survive EU’s green rollback?
Green finance metric in limbo after suspension sees 90% of top EU banks forgo reporting
Korean autocalls to make comeback, with ‘smaller pie’ for banks
As equity-linked autocallable channels look set to reopen, new rules could limit market’s revival
EBA’s Campa on simplifying EU regulations and supervising stablecoins
Departing pan-European supervision chief discusses advancing the banking union, streamlining implementation of new rules, financial resilience, and stepping down early
Invite us to your cyber war games, Finra urges members
Risk Live North America: Regulators and broker-dealers would benefit if watchdogs had a seat at the table during these exercises, says senior Finra exec
Genius Act piles pressure on shrinking OCC, says Hsu
Risk Live North America: former agency head fears stablecoin vetting could “crowd out” other duties
Enterprise risk managers: police or foot soldiers?
With more than 5,000 data points from 37 banks, our first ERM Benchmarking exercise shines a light on very different missions
When AI models malfunction, address the problem not the math
Governance of artificial intelligence models should focus on actionable outcomes rather than interpretability, argues former chief regulator
US banks see record relief in stress capital buffers
Average buffer falls 62bp amid strong stress test showing
Saved by the Byrd? The fight over the OFR’s future
Dodd-Frank made it the premier data-grabber, and the financial world doesn’t like it
Public interest assessment in resolution of small and medium-sized banks in the European Union
This paper studies key determinants of public interest assessments in EU bank resolution with a focus on three factors: systemic risk, bank size and bank localness.