Articles by Samuel Wilkes
Coded swaps reporting plan delights some, but not all
Cost-busting code for swaps reporting could be tricky if banks lack internal standardisation
France floats U-turn on Mifid’s dark pool restrictions
Leaked doc shows UK competition threat weighs on minds of EU lawmakers over non-exchange trading
FSB warns on Archegos-style leverage
Isda AGM: Knot takes dim view of banks piling up leverage blind
Banks eye ‘nirvana’ in machine-executable swaps reporting
Coded reporting requirements to save banks “millions” in compliance costs
Fortunes of VAR: dealers decry effect of war on risk models
European banks with large Russian derivatives exposures face risk of backtesting exceptions – and higher capital requirements
EU considers delay to OTC derivatives tape
Member states raise prospect of delaying introduction of consolidated feed
Germany has enough support to block EU’s PFOF ban
Possible compromise would be using consolidated tape to benchmark best execution
Isda broadens FRTB carbon trading study to win over sceptics
New study shows risk weights too high for US markets, but data from 2008 still missing
Mifid data vendors face 4,000% supervisory fee hike
‘Cost of Esma’ crisis for largest European regulated data reporting and publishing firms
Germany tells EU to PFOF
Proposed ban might need to be dropped to prove practice is harmful
Germany fights for neobrokers’ PFOF rights
Leaked document shows Germany wants to protect ‘anti-competitive’ practice
This is going to hurt: EU-prescribed OTC tape is no cure-all
Market participants sharply divided on utility of a consolidated tape to record OTC derivatives trades
How Russian stocks still meet EU rules for ‘good governance’
Loose SFDR definitions leave room for Russian state-owned firms to remain in article 8 funds
Smaller EU nations stare down giants in capital floor standoff
EU member states clash over severity of internally modelled output floors for cross-border bank groups
Leaked EU doc shows pushback on cross-border trading ban
Member states propose loosening European Commission’s CRD draft to varying degrees
EU lawmakers’ demand for local capital floors alarms banks
Multiple output floors applied to each entity raises fears of capital increase for large groups
FRTB capital quirk for sovereign bonds bewilders banks
EU treatment of govvies under internal models is worse than standardised approaches
EU banks fear outlier status on non-modellable risk charges
Dealers face disadvantage if EU implements more granular and costly version of FRTB than US, UK
EU regulators warn Basel III deviations could last forever
CRR III allows European Commission to extend transitional rules for SA-CCR
UK cross-border review feels Brexit strain
Growing signs that overseas persons exclusion will fall foul of rivalry between UK and EU
Blockade or blunder? Enigma of EU cross-border trading ban
Drafting errors and lawmaker’s comments leave industry perplexed about controversial new rules
Planned EU cross-border trading ban to hit most large markets
Most major jurisdictions currently provide either interdealer or client exemptions
EU looks to close Brexit escape route from ECB supervision
Changes to capital regulation would stop national rulebook arbitrage deployed post-Brexit
Europe swap dealers eye London return post-Brexit
Proposed Mifid exemption paves way for BNP Paribas, SocGen and Deutsche to trade swaps on UK venues