Basel III
WHAT IS THIS? Basel III is a set of bank soundness rules drawn up by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in response to the financial crisis. It hikes the minimum amount of capital banks must hold, introduces new leverage and liquidity ratios, and limits the use of internal models.
Regulators demand hedge fund look-through transparency
Looking through
Nepal central bank cautious on Basel III counter-cyclical buffer
Central bank to study need for counter-cyclical buffer in a developing economy
Hedge fund of the year: Chenavari Investment Managers
With around $1 billion deployed in capital relief trades and the same amount in direct lending, Chenavari has found a sweet spot for investors - but a danger area for regulators
FI trading revenues expected to slide further – Risk.net poll
Fixed-income trading revenues will continue to fall in 2014, believe respondents to a Risk.net poll
India private sector banks start signing CSAs
Rising costs and flexible collateral approaches overcome India resistance to CSAs
India counter-cyclical buffer proposals a 'tax on banks'
India proposals for CCB has too narrow a focus
Europe looking 'dysfunctional and extreme' over Esma equivalency procedure
No guarantee of equivalence being granted to Asian clearing houses
More firms expect technology spending increase in 2014
Rising expectations
Review of 2013: Grave new world
From collapsing equity repo rates to footnote 88, and from the leverage ratio to new clearing house liquidity rules, the year has been full of surprises, many of them unpleasant. By the end of 2013, an industry that had seemed to be back on its feet was…
Risk technology rankings 2013: Regulatory revamps
Adapt and comply
Financial crime survey 2013
Sponsored survey analysis: BAE Systems Detica
ROE hurdles cause pricing impasse
In the Basel III world, traders know their business must deliver a target return on equity, or risk being shut down – but working out the capital cost, or benefit, of a trade at inception is so difficult that banks only have approximations to guide them…
Innovations to drive leadership in banking
Sponsored statement: J.P. Morgan
Italy follows Ireland in retaining AFS bond filter
Banca d'Italia proposes to allow its banks to ignore some government bond volatility
Osfi copies US CVA charge to protect Canadian banks
Canadian regulator wants its banks to compete on same terms as US rivals
Bank initial margin posting raises liquidation concerns
Initial fears
Capital or P&L? Deutsche Bank losses highlight CVA trade-off
Critics of Basel III’s credit valuation adjustment (CVA) capital charge have long warned it would produce perverse incentives. Now, in the form of a string of quarterly losses in Deutsche Bank’s CVA hedging programme, they believe they are being proved…
5,000 trades: Basel III's magic number squeezes swaps books
There is a magic number in bank capital rules – 5,000 trades – below which portfolios qualify for a lower margin period of risk. Some dealers are now trying to cut their books down to size. Others claim that’s impossible. Joe Rennison reports
Deutsche Bank's €94 million CVA loss was "good business", dealers say
Big loss was accompanied by even bigger capital saving, traders point out. Other banks now working out their own policy on controversial capital charge
Branch LCR calculations should include parental support within three days
Loss of capital fungibility creates systemic risk, according to BAML compliance head
Clearing of physical FX in China and India a concern, says GFXD’s Ngai
Global forex division managing director David Ngai warns of the challenges associated with centrally clearing physically delivered foreign exchange products
China relaxes liquidity rules to fall in with Basel timeline
New approach to liquidity risk intended to reduce the regulation's pro-cyclicality
Haldane dismisses talk of monetary and macro-prudential tensions
Bank of England’s Andrew Haldane says it is a virtue that different tools can be used to meet conflicting objectives