The Americas
Inflationary cloud has silver lining for some quant strategies
Research finds certain factors may perform better than previously realised when prices rise
People: Barclays’ equity hires, CA’s CVA head departs, and more
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Risk managers mull Basel-style climate standards
Risk Live: Splintered approach to stress-testing across jurisdictions “very, very worrying”, says risk expert
Why NDF execution algos might still hit the spot
Products have yet to live up to initial hype, but their long-term potential for investors remains significant
Isda’s fork provision gives crypto market plenty to chew over
Not everyone is happy with the discretion new digital definitions offer to calculation agents
People: UBS rehires Ermotti for top job, Citi promotes Selva to COO, and more
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SEC reporting rule threatens CDS liquidity, say traders
Market participants say proposals for identifiable position reporting will hamper bank lending
Investors zero in on short-dated options to trade US inflation prints
But critics say 0DTE products are increasing volatility around CPI announcements
Tales from the crypto prompt calls for FX-style market structures
Demands for interdealers and prime brokers to be brought into crypto market in wake of FTX debacle
BNP Paribas quants ‘industrialise’ portfolio construction
Firm says tech, five years in development, takes two hours to do jobs that previously took two days
The haves and the ‘have bots’: can AI give vol forecasters an edge?
Firms look to machine learning and natural language processing to gain advantage over peers
People: Credit Suisse’s FX revamp; Barclays hires co-heads; and more
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Currency derivatives house of the year: BNP Paribas
Risk Awards 2023: Paris-based bank profits from dollar/offshore renminbi volatility
Derivatives client clearer of the year: BNP Paribas
Risk Awards 2023: When gas prices spiked, French bank provided much-needed credit to clients hit by jumbo margin calls
Why central banks shouldn’t ignore stablecoins
Rapid growth of stablecoins could impair monetary policy transmission
People moves: Capitolis lay-offs, UBS’s new risk chief, and more
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Cross-border risk dominates 2022 G-Sib scores
Overseas lending and borrowing largest contributor to scores of banks in Canada, EU, Japan, Singapore, Switzerland and UK
Credit Suisse shake-up, HSBC’s new CFO, and more
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Global banks’ CET1 surplus hit 2.5-year high in 2021
Lenders in the Americas had smaller share of capital available for use than European peers
A-IRB to lose credit risk reach under Basel III
Americas banks expected to generate just 40% of RWAs using internal models, from 67% currently
Basel III output floor set to bind 24% of banks
Latest BCBS monitoring report shows four-fold increase over next seven years
European banks set for 17.5% capital hike under Basel III
Output floor could account for almost half the increase in Tier 1 capital requirements by 2028
Credit checks, what credit checks? How crypto lending ate itself
Collapse of hedge fund Three Arrows Capital exposes “sloppy and irresponsible” credit standards among crypto lenders
Banks shock commodities by 1,000% in stress-test rethink
Energy price spikes force clearing firms to consider extreme or even ‘implausible’ scenarios