Opinion/Regulation
In stress-test window-dressing, timing is everything
EBA and Fed stress tests would have to be in perfect sync to stamp out transatlantic arbitrage
We’ve been here before: LEIs take two
LEIs are catching on in Asia
When regulators become nationalists
EU’s new treatment of bank software assets is partly a response to global competitive pressures
Fixing the roof while the sun – wait, is that rain?
The Fed is split on whether to apply a countercyclical buffer. But so is everyone else
How to adapt a bank for MPE resolution strategy
Senior SRB official suggests what is needed to prove resolution entities can operate separately
Can European banks crack the capital allocation code?
Banks “stuck on the same feedback loop” due to sheer weight of capital rules
Can bankers stop the trading book killer?
FRTB won’t obliterate your whole markets business any more, just some very specific parts
EU’s new securitisation market stumbles at the starting gate
Lack of single supervisory authority is hampering EU efforts to create new markets
SA-CCR may need more fundamental fixes
Quants propose tweaks to improve Basel counterparty credit risk framework
Sovereign risk weights cannot wait
Why reform of Basel rules is urgent – and how to improve on December 2017 proposals
Credit risk quants are hitting the tech gap
An appetite to cut the costs of IRB is constrained by tougher regulatory scrutiny
HM Treasury’s Brexit surprise
Statutory instruments throw up unwieldy divergence in Mifid II and Emir rules
Searching for the end of Giancarlo’s white-paper trail
CFTC chairman faces key test to turn thought leadership into real reform
Risk.net podcast: DTCC’s Lind on FRTB, data pooling and NMRFs
As many as 70 banks globally could adopt internal model approach for market risk capital
The price of trust: tackling the risks of ring-fencing
Learning the wrong lesson from Lehman? Ring-fencing hikes risk of bank failure, says Credit Suisse’s Wilson Ervin – he proposes an alternative
The management traits of problem banks
Former Bank of Spain supervision head discusses how to stop dangerous activities before they take hold
Why the FRTB remains critical
Critics of the Basel Committee’s Fundamental Review of the Trading Book are wrong, write John Beckwith and Sanjay Sharma
Regulatory arbitrage: a crime, or a warning?
It could be unwise to ignore disproportionate regulatory impacts on specific business lines
Asia balks at swallowing Mifid whole
Local regulators are right to cherry-pick elements of Europe’s new regime for their own versions
EU must think big to overcome Brexit’s impact on markets
Post-trade reforms offer lessons for Capital Markets Union project, writes EU lawmaker Kay Swinburne
Implementing Basel III – the view from Europe
EU approach to new credit risk framework must recognise local market structures, say banking experts
Replacing too big to fail with too small to survive
Subordinated debt requirement will hit smaller banks hardest