Feature/Risk management
Hammer horror: banks fear CCP auctions after Nasdaq
Auction failure at Nasdaq sparks debate over who gets to bid on portfolios, and whether they should be pre-hedged
Functional programming reaches for stardom in finance
Fans highlight more reliable code, and suitability for complex tasks and distributed ledgers
Banks hope final FRTB rules will ease NMRF burden
Internal models approach buoyed by more liberal rules on price observations and risk factor aggregation
Apac bank boards: light on risk experience
Survey of 24 large Apac bank board risk committees shows dearth of risk managers
Quant guide 2019: industry entrants face cultural ‘abyss’
Divide between industry and academia worries practitioners and professors
Non-payment insurance grows as banks shun stuttering CDS market
Credit portfolio managers explore insurance contracts to offset risk from loan book
CLO scare: could rated tranches see losses?
Structures are more solid, but loans are dicier, and recovery rates may be disintegrating
Basel’s archaic op risk taxonomy gets a makeover
Industry moves to revise out-of-date categories that feature risks such as cheque fraud
The disputed terrain of model risk scoring
There is no concord on how banks should police their model risk. But two Fed economists have an idea
Clearing houses in Asia to overhaul creaking margin models
Fears of Nasdaq-style failures spur rethink of margining practices at HKEx, JSCC, SGX
Machine learning hits explainability barrier
Banks hire AI industry experts in face of growing regulatory scrutiny
After Nasdaq, cracks appear in foundation of clearing
Default fund loss triggers debate on risk sharing, auction rules and ‘skin in the game’ at CCPs
European funds wary of stress-test ‘straitjacket’
As Esma finalises guidance, some fear a one-size-fits-all approach
China’s caution on compression stretches global banks’ risk limits
Systems lags and lack of capital pressure blamed for apathy on swaps compression
Do two sizes fit all? Banks aim to standardise vendor risk
Banks created TruSight and KY3P to vet supplier risk with standard questionnaires. Is it enough?
Cyber security begins a shift to the risk department
Normally the province of IT, cyber defence is increasingly seen as a critical part of operational risk
Lehman’s ghost: how three CCPs anchor models to crash
The Lehman crash still haunts the margin models of LCH, CME and Eurex, albeit in different ways
Libor reform threatens risk modelling under FRTB
Dearth of liquid products and historic data threatens banks with capital hit under new market risk rules
Stress tests expose climate risks in loan books
Efforts to quantify the risk of global warming are changing the way banks manage credit portfolios
Risktech start-ups struggle to clinch big-bank contracts
Light on cash, risk management fintechs face an extended gauntlet most won’t survive
Regulators bristle at slow progress on BCBS 239
Three out of 30 banks compliant with six months to go; talk of capital add-ons for laggards
OK, computer? Hurdles remain for machine learning in credit risk
Concerns over cost, applicability and oversight give pause to banks’ use of ML techniques in credit risk
Bank risk committees: desperately seeking risk managers
Most boards still lack career risk specialists despite tighter governance requirements