Europe
Alt data aims to shake up credit scoring business
Young firms, using machine learning methods to scrape consumer info, challenge established agency model
Eurex initial margin ebbed over Q2 as default fund swelled
Participant contributions to default fund up 55% quarter-on-quarter
Hammer time? Clearers mull co-operation on default auctions
Some CCPs are mooting joint auctions to resolve large defaults – but critics deem them unworkable
Protocol delay casts doubt on Libor death knell timing
Two-month delay to Isda fallback protocol leaves FCA’s planned end-2020 statement in the balance
Which EU banks hold the most loans subject to Covid relief?
UK lender Lloyds had 13% of its loan book under payment moratoria as of June 30
Rent-a-fund managers rebuff ‘misguided’ Esma criticism
Europe regulator warns of conflicts of interest between risk and portfolio managers in AIFMD delegation model
Banks welcome US overhaul of AML rules
Proposals signal shift to risk-based approach to financial crime detection
Systemic banks’ leverage exposures gyrated over H1
Temporary relief measures held down growth of exposures at US, Swiss lenders
Euribor fallback consultation set for November
ECB’s Holthausen raises concerns over inclusion of non-existent term €STR as safety net for euro contracts
Indexed for growth – The democratisation of thematic indexes
Simon Karaban, head of index services at Singapore Exchange, talks about environmental, social and governance indexes and how the emergence of exchange-traded funds and wealth platforms is democratising thematic indexes, making them more accessible to…
Libor webinar playback: spotlight on euros
Panellists from ECB, LCH, Natixis and Societe Generale discuss struggling liquidity in €STR
VAR spasms heap market risk charges on EU G-Sibs
VAR-based charges increase 94% on end-2019
ECB’s Holthausen urges market to ditch Eonia
Regulator sees risk in relying on fallbacks to effect switch to €STR – and calls on dealers to educate clients
Liquidity test clouds Ibor switch accounting rules
IFRS 9 update will lead to hedge accounting breakdown if new rates markets lack depth
BNP Paribas again leads eurozone banks on repo exposures
French bank increased exposures 69% over the first six months of the year
Friary deal clears path for Sonia switch revival
Consent solicitation for Libor-linked pass-through notes is first transition test for variable-duration instruments
Non-EU corporates thwarted on Emir reporting relief
Esma suggests foreign-headquartered firms can’t benefit from intra-group exemption
Hedge funds eye Brexit escape from Mifid reporting
UK tipped to diverge from Europe’s proposed reforms to fund manager rules
Eurozone funds favoured US equities in Q2
Investment funds also bought up eurozone bank stocks
Covid chaos ate into EU insurers’ own funds
Aggregate ratio of own funds to SCR fell 14 percentage points in Q1
One-fifth of SocGen’s securitisations have STS label
French bank held €7 billion of simple, transparent, standardised securitisations as of end-June
Bank resolvability in the time of Covid
We will balance flexibility and resilience, says director of EU’s Single Resolution Board
EU insurers’ fund holdings battered by Covid in Q1
Total asset portfolios declined 6% through Covid shock
EU CCPs expand overseas footprint
Thirteen per cent of EU CCP clearing members are from outside the EU