Nationwide Building Society
Barclays and Lloyds improve resilience to stress tests, HSBC falls back
Capital headroom above pass/fail thresholds increases to 250bp at lenders
IFRS 9 transition eases UK banks’ path through stress tests
Aggregate CET1 ratio 130bp lower without transitional relief
Banks will not use NSFR to judge funding risk
Calibration of ratio looks “somewhat insane” when applied to real world, conference hears
Nationwide's Laing to replace TSB CRO Neeta Atkar
Icap creates global head of regulatory affairs role; NIBC appoints chief risk officer; Crown Agents boosts risk management
Structured Products Americas Awards 2016: the winners
Credit Suisse wins top prize, while JP Morgan scoops three awards
Deal of the year: JP Morgan and Nationwide
Surge in demand for insurance provider's fixed indexed annuities in 2015
Nationwide: ABS markets need more than warm words
"There does seem to be this sense in which covered bonds are innocent until proven guilty"
L&G blames low interest rates as it quits UK retail structured products
Legal & General exits the market following a reported decline in sales, putting an end to its distribution of Barclays-backed plans
Investec launches commission-free FTSE 100 plans
Commission-free kickout
Lookback
Lookback
Changing Hats, February 2011
The latest movers and shakers in operational risk
OpRisk Europe: The slow drive for change
Speakers at OpRisk Europe agreed that, while change in op risk legislation and capital calculation is necessary, it needs to be undertaken slowly and carefully
Resolving the confusion
Risk control self-assessments have become a Tower of Babel for the op risk discipline, with a variety of different approaches being taken. Ellen Davis reports
Mind the gap
UK mortgage lenders are grappling with Basel II. But there are still concerns about a credit risk management gap between the large and small lenders.