Capital requirements
Banks tout break clauses as capital mitigant
Breaking with tradition
Banks are retreating from market-making, managers warn
Forex investment has became more challenging, as market-making banks facing new regulation have become less willing to take risk, say buy-side firms
Goodbye VAR? Basel to consider other risk metrics
Trading book review will look at replacing value-at-risk, but quants say the obvious alternative - expected shortfall - is not much better
Ambition of Basel's trading book review has faded, sources say
Patchwork of risk measures - including standalone CVA charge - may be left intact
RWA probe could cut modelling flexibility, says new Basel chief
A stricter approach to the modelling of bank capital is "high likely", as a result of concerns that risk-weighted asset numbers are too divergent
Risk.net poll: Basel rules make client clearing uneconomical
Fifty-four per cent of respondents say new capital rules for bank exposures to central counterparty default funds makes it unattractive to offer client clearing services
Risk managers complain about Fed stress test workload
Twelve new banks are included in this year's US stress test, and some institutions are unhappy about the extra work
Credit derivatives house of the year: Deutsche Bank
Risk awards 2012
Deal of the year: Credit Suisse
Risk awards 2012
National interests threaten reform agenda
The health of nations
Asia’s risk professionals warn of unintended consequences of Basel III
Basel III rules may cause banks to reduce lending, worsening the economic slowdown, warn risk professionals in Asia-Pacific
Profile: OCC's Walsh on Volcker rule leaks, Dodd-Frank divergence and bank capital
From the ridiculous to the sublime
Eksportfinans faces collateral questions following downgrade
Junk-rated export lender says it has enough reserve liquidity to meet obligations while it is being wound up - but dealers are not convinced
EU member states want to use judgement to set buffer rules, says working paper
EU Polish presidency paper highlights concerns over aspects of the counter-cyclical capital buffer rules under CRD IV
Sweden will go beyond Basel III capital rules, says Ingves
Riksbank governor Stefan Ingves says Sweden will follow Switzerland and UK in implementing higher capital adequacy requirements than Basel III for largest banks; details to be released soon
Video: ING Asia CRO Doug Caldwell on Solvency II and use of liquidity swaps in Asia
Local insurers are still offering products at cheaper prices compared with insurers offering risk-based capital structures compliant with Solvency II, according to Doug Caldwell, chief risk officer for ING Asia-Pacific in Hong Kong. Caldwell also…
From micro to macro: Basel III tools eyed as systemic risk controls
Keeping the lid on
Credit Suisse and UBS on Basel 2.5: Half a world away
Half a world away
Illiquidity holding back CCDS, despite Basel III endorsement
Where is the liquidity?
Q&A: Stefan Walter on Basel III, RWAs, 'anti-American' rules and CVA
“It’s good to have hard deadlines”
Risk USA: Regulators need to be wary of capital overshoot, says Roldán
Adding to Basel III capital levels might have unintended consequences, says former chair of Basel Committee’s standards implementation group
Beware 'buy-and-hold' banking model limitations
A clash of ideologies
ICB report: banks face higher costs, lower ratings
Ring-fence furore