Europe
ECB official leaves door open to liquidity aid for non-banks
Risk Live: Deputy director doesn’t rule out copying UK plan to extend repo facility to pension funds and life insurers, but no imminent plans
Banks must loosen up on ChatGPT use – risk chiefs
Risk Live: ’Shadow use’ and inability to attract new hires mean restricting access to GPTs is untenable
Inside Nomura’s European equities rebuild
Talking Heads: Global chief Simon Yates also addresses US crowding and Japan’s prospects post-carry trade
European banks search for consensus on credit spread risk
New EBA guidelines spawn diverging interpretations of which products must be assessed for CSRBB
Simm casts off Covid pain for $40 billion IM reprieve
Recalibration cuts risk weights in equity and commodities, but some credit exposures double on ABX halt
Dutch regulator in new push on algo manipulation
AFM teams up with Oxford Uni academics to develop data models that will identify “harmful” activity in automated trading
UniCredit slashes CCP exposures by nearly 40% in a year
Lower exposures at default for exchange-traded derivatives the main driver behind overall drop
Rate risk modellers relieved as EU deposits stay sticky
Banks feared retail deposits would be flightier than during previous periods of rate hikes
SocGen closest to TLAC minimum among G-Sibs
Gap between bail-in funds and required amounts narrows at Canadian lenders; Wells Fargo buffer smallest in US
EU dealers added €38bn of Level 3 assets in 2023
Groupe BPCE, DZ Bank led accumulation of mark-to-model instruments
Citi revealed as top index CDS dealer to Ucits funds
Counterparty Radar: Novel data shows US banks captured nearly 90% of uncleared notional volume in European markets
IM requirements at LCH ForexClear hit record high in Q2
Latest figures show a 32% increase quarter on quarter to $10.7bn
Ruled out: can regulators settle the pre-hedging debate?
Market participants are at odds over the practice and whether regulation or principles can settle the score
Cable basis set to shrink as pension buyouts dwindle
BoE rate cuts and tightening US credit spreads expected to further normalise the sterling-US dollar cross-currency basis
JPM’s EU arm outpaced bloc’s top dealers on OTC derivatives in 2023
A 30% surge in notionals coincided with a departure from central clearing
How Risk.net’s robots unlocked Ucits trade data
Machine learning tool helps reveal the largest European derivatives users – and who they trade with
Pricing and funding woes hit gilt repo
QT-driven funding cost rises combined with clients’ price demands see at least two banks pull back
UniCredit-Commerz merger could spawn sixth-largest EU G-Sib
Analysis of banks’ risk indicators suggest combined entity could have larger systemic footprint than ING and BPCE
Supervisors use generative AI to tame ‘chaotic’ data
Officials merge credit databases with unstructured reports to sharpen bank oversight, explains Banco de España ex-deputy
EU banks fear loss of NSFR repo relief
European Commission must decide by next June; other jurisdictions adopted softer calibration
Estimated stress losses at CME, Eurex and LCH surge to record high
Latest projections likely behind increases in contributions to CCPs’ default funds in Q2
New data reveals Pimco is top Ucits interest rate swaps user
Counterparty Radar: US managers and dealers reign supreme in European retail fund space
IM and default funds drive big variance in EU bank CCP exposures
BNP Paribas accounts for 55% of top dealers’ €126 billion exposures
From chaos to clarity: the role of clean data in banks’ digital journeys
In a Risk Live Europe panel session sponsored by Numerix, experts explored the role that clean and accurate data plays in digital transformation. Here we examine the main themes arising from the discussion