Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS)
Parallel lines: EU begins fight over Basel output floor
Leaked plan to exclude buffers from floor would please EU banks, could anger Basel and US
Never mind the buffers: Covid reveals deeper flaws in Basel III
Tweaking discretionary capital buffers won’t address all the prudential issues raised in 2020
Capital buffers, contingent hedges and USD Libor
The week on Risk.net, November 28–December 4
SA-CCR proves a bitter pill for US banks to swallow
Dealers concerned new regime will punish some business lines with rise in risk-weighted assets
Fed will start FRTB model approvals for US banks in 2021
Senior official says banks should now be deciding desk structure and readying backtests
Isda study reveals size of Covid’s trading book capital hike
Procyclicality led to aggregate 25% rise in market, CVA risk-weighted assets
Almost G-Sibs: five banks near systemic designation
Chinese banks continue to grow systemic footprints
At global banks, underwriting activity surged in 2019
JP Morgan led the world with €459.3 billion of transactions
Top US banks have become less of a systemic risk, says FSB
JP Morgan relegated as the world’s most systemically important lender
G-Sibs see little sign of relief on Fed’s systemic buffer
Central bank liquidity and Treasuries will push US firms into higher G-Sib buckets
Achieving a holistic view of risk in times of crisis
What happens when risks become too global in scope and increasingly uncertain for a business to manage? Jeroen van Doorsselaere, senior director – finance, risk and regulatory reporting value propositions at Wolters Kluwer, explores the key steps to…
EBA wants Basel to revisit prudential rules on software
Banking regulator set to soften capital impact of IT assets, but proposals are still out of line with US
Fed set to unveil operational resilience proposals
OpRisk North America: banks expected to design idiosyncratic stress scenarios to test resilience
Banks, regulators call for global climate risk standards
Carney and Winters warn private sector cannot move much further without lawmakers
Regulators seek harmony on op resilience rules
Alignment on principles needed “in short order”, says Basel working group chair
Basel’s Rogers: little evidence capital buffers have failed
Top regulator disputes idea banks are unable to run down buffers, urges better communication
Banks warn of rise in ransomware attacks
OpRisk Europe: Banks must improve resilience of remote-working staff, says Wells Fargo financial crime expert
BoE may update resilience guidance, post-Covid
OpRisk Europe: Granular targets on minimum service provision after outages could be revisited, adviser suggests
Fed will calibrate NSFR to avoid hurting repo
Fed’s supervision head says final liquidity rule will be fast-tracked without fresh consultation
FRTB implementation – Covid-19 and Libor pressure
Industry leaders discuss the pressures FRTB is placing on banks’ data infrastructure and systems, how FRTB may constrain banks’ ability to manage future volatility, and the potential complications to implementation caused by such factors as the Covid‑19…
Systemic indicators surged at European banks in 2019
Total exposures increased 3% year on year
CVA desks arm themselves for the next crisis
March’s volatility forces dealers to fine-tune hedging strategies
Inside the Fed’s secret liquidity stress tests
Lobbyists and Quarles train sights on horizontal exams that can shape bank risk appetite
EBA’s software compromise draws fire on two fronts
UK regulator suggests it will neuter the proposed capital relief, which banks say doesn’t go far enough