Risk
EU stress tests: BNP Paribas would bear brunt of trading losses
Losses from held-for-trading balance sheet would wipe out fair value book gains
End of SLR relief weighs on JP Morgan
All eight US systemic banks saw their supplementary leverage ratio drop in Q2
The pitfalls of out-of the-box surveillance
In the Covid-19 era and beyond, surveillance is and will be complex and ever-evolving. For a surveillance programme to be effective, it must be able to process increasing volumes of data, integrate that data across multiple platforms and devices, and…
Nomura understated VAR capital charges by 13% in H2 2020
VAR RWAs should have been ¥122 billion higher than originally stated at end-December
Connected data for financial services
Unlocking hidden value in market and reference data across the organisation
Helping brokers manage risk in an evolving fintech industry
Finalto’s rebrand of TradeTech Alpha, TradeTech 360 and CFH reflects the move towards full integration and assimilation of these companies. The name Finalto describes the vision of the business: next-level financial markets, and reflects the company’s…
Foreign banks perform better in 2021 Fed stress tests
Intermediate holding companies reported higher post-stress capital and leverage ratios than their US peers did
NSCC caught $600m short during meme-stock frenzy
Worst-case losses would have wiped out the CCP’s available liquid resources on one day in Q1
JP Morgan, BofA face higher G-Sib surcharges
Both banks could face an extra 50 basis points of capital add-on without remedial action
The future of private market asset investing in Asia‑Pacific
The findings from research into the future of private market asset investing in Asia-Pacific, conducted by Asia Risk in partnership with IHS Markit, shine a light on the reasons private asset allocations decreased across the majority of investors in the…
Real-time scenario analysis to prepare for the unknown
In today’s trading environment, fast, risk-enabled decision-making is increasingly considered a key competitive advantage. In this audiocast, Cboe Data and Access Solutions’ Jerry Hanweck explains how developments in real-time scenario analysis are…
Libor Risk – Quarterly report Q2 2021
The countdown to Libor's demise is officially under way. If a recent jump in Libor usage is anything to go by, regulators face a Herculean task prising dollar markets off the discredited rate by year-end. The mission is complicated by huge swathes of the…
The Texas freeze and future calamities – How to build business resiliency in the face of disruption
Adverse weather in February stressed the Texas power grid to the point of failure, leaving millions without power and resulting in many firms filing for bankruptcy. While this event had some unique circumstances, extreme events are becoming more frequent
The art of effective market risk management during a period of transformation
This white paper takes a current view of market risk management, its growing complexity and how it can be transformative to institutions as the industry is widely recognising what are the right approaches to addressing evolving risks.
Option pricing using high-frequency futures prices
The authors examine two potential routes to improve the outcome of option pricing: extracting the variance from futures prices instead of the underlying asset prices, and calculating the variance in different frequencies with intraday data instead of…
The evolution of CTRM systems into commodity management systems
Enuit explores the importance of well-linked and fully integrated trading and operational systems to ensure trades that seem solid are not non-viable once operational factors are included into calculations, and posits the key considerations when…
Putting automations on autopilot – Getting the most from RPA programmes
Over the past two years, robotic process automation (RPA) has taken the energy industry by storm. As organisations are forced to do more with less, tools that allow companies to gain efficiencies, reduce cost and improve performance are critical
The trade-off between liquidity risk and counterparty risk in money market networks
The authors examine how liquidity is exchanged in different types of Colombian money market networks (ie, secured, unsecured and the central bank’s repurchase networks) as registered in the local financial market infrastructure.
Portfolio allocation based on expected profit and loss measures
The authors formulate the portfolio allocation problem from a trading point of view, allowing both long and short positions and taking trading and interest rate costs into account.
A general framework for the identification and categorization of risks: an application to the context of financial markets
This paper is, to the best of the authors' knowledge, the first to develop an algorithm-based and generally applicable framework that generates an extensive and integrated identification and categorization scheme of certain risks by using text mining and…
Risk measures: a generalization from the univariate to the matrix-variate
This paper develops a method for estimating value-at-risk and conditional value-at-risk when the underlying risk factors follow a beta distribution in a univariate and a matrix-variate setting.
Modeling realized volatility with implied volatility for the EUR/GBP exchange rate
This paper concerns the application of implied volatility in modeling realized volatility in the daily, weekly and monthly horizon using high-frequency data for the EUR/GBP exchange rate.
Hero or villain? NSCC draws fire for Robinhood margin waiver
Fears of moral hazard after CCP waives billions in margin demands following meme-stock volatility