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Blazing new analytical paths: Tackling data aggregation for new risk insights
As the risk function’s influence continues to grow within financial services firms, demand for quality integrated risk data to support a wider range of business-critical decisions is stretching the capabilities of existing technology to breaking point. A…
Final FRTB internal model rules get mixed reviews
Bankers divided on whether changes to two key tests will ease ‘penal’ capital charges
EU lawmakers delay FRTB capital charges
Leaked paper potentially pushes market risk capital charges beyond Basel’s 2022 deadline
US banks continue to lop back market risk
Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley shrink requirements by over $1 billion year to date
Obstacles and opportunities in adopting cloud computing
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Keeping up with cloud adoption
Risk.net convened a webinar in collaboration with Murex to explore how, as more financial institutions move to the cloud, they can get the most out of their technology investments
FRTB could ‘kill’ local markets – South African banks
Dealers urge South African Reserve Bank to depart from Basel standards on NMRFs
Compliance preparations amid uncertain rules
A forum of industry leaders discusses how banks will define individual trading desks under FRTB, whether BCBS 239 compliance projects can help banks meet FRTB risk data challenges, which model validation obstacles banks still face and other key topics
Market risk capital requirements will soar come 2022
FRTB implies 54% capital uplift for G-Sibs
Wells Fargo swells MBS trading portfolio
San Francisco-based dealer grows allocation by $11 billion from end-2016
UK Treasury never analysed impact of risk weights for EU debt
Risk weight move seen as political threat to EU sovereign issuance to force Brexit equivalence deal
US banks see fewer daily trading losses than foreign units
IHCs suffered losses on 54% of trading days compared with 44% for US BHCs
CVA gain bolsters JP Morgan trading revenues
$302 million of first half trading revenues attributed to credit valuation adjustment
StanChart culls debt, switches model, and market RWAs drop
Structured product RWAs now calculated using internal model, saving $1.1 billion
Trading risk plummets at BAML as portfolio grows
Trading VAR falls to $30 million from $40 million in Q1
Stress-test trading losses out of sync with banks’ market risk
Trading and counterparty losses triple those implied by banks’ market RWAs
FRTB: trade bodies reveal threat to risk factor modellability
Swaptions, sovereign CDS and long-dated swaps at risk of being NMRFs
FRTB: Nordic banks mull regional data pool
Local tie-up could “prevent big banks entering the markets in the Nordics”, says local risk manager
US will implement FRTB, insists Fed official
Isda AGM: “I don’t know why people doubt” US adoption, says Lynch
Basel’s Coen warns on FRTB complexity
Isda AGM: Regulators may consider “simpler and more robust” approaches when finalising rules this year