Liquidity
ICAAP/ILAAP – How can banks improve the process?
Regulators consider banks’ internal capital and liquidity adequacy assessment processes (ICAAP/ILAAP) – important tools in managing risk
Cross-border loans to shadow banks top $7trn
Overseas lending to non-bank financial institutions expands 17% in Q3
Cyber attack could freeze US liquidity – NY Fed paper
Attack on one bank could affect more than a third of banking system’s assets, researchers warn
Haitong taps NLP to inform collateral coverage
Hong Kong broker scours news and blogs in bid for better corporate signals in China’s opaque markets
Ties between banks and non-banks at pre-crisis levels – FSB
Other financial intermediaries grow share of total financial assets to 30.5% in 2017
Growth of shadow banks slowed in 2018 – FSB
Funds susceptible to run risk make up 72% of narrowly-defined non-bank universe
Asian investors primed to buy more CLOs, experts say
Liquidity and diversification are drivers for demand, after US loan market’s recovery from blip
Esma trains beam on investment fund risks
Officials look to regulatory reporting for better grasp of fund leverage and liquidity
ICAAP/ILAAP – What’s new and what’s next?
The European Central Bank’s ICAAP and ILAAP guidelines aim to harmonise European banks’ approach to capital and liquidity management
Liquidity risks acute for popular retail funds – Esma
Eight per cent of real estate fund NAV may be withdrawn over a one-day period
Smarter trading in a fragmented world
FX Week recently hosted a webinar in partnership with Refinitiv to ask foreign exchange industry leaders to discuss geopolitical challenges, market changes and developments, and evolving technologies, and how they have shaped forex markets in Asia
Compounded rate out of favour, finds Japan survey
Users prefer forward-looking term rate to replace yen Libor, but dealers bemoan “lack of understanding”
Initial margin – A regulatory bottleneck
With the recent announcement of an extended preparation period for those smaller entities needing to post initial margin under the uncleared margin rules, the new timetable could cause a bottleneck for firms busy repapering derivatives contracts linked…
Will uncleared margin rules change the FX landscape?
As the next phases of uncleared margin rules come into force, there will be an economic driver for more clearing of FX. By Phil Hermon, Executive Director of FX Products at CME Group
Interdealer broker of the year: BGC Partners
Risk Awards 2020: Strong voice revenues are helping fund ambitious electronic projects
How pre-trade IM calculation can optimise and reduce collateral drag
With firms under pressure to make their systems compliant with uncleared margin rules (UMR), the increase in margin requirements has put further strain on the availability of high-quality liquid assets. Mohit Gupta, senior product specialist at Cassini…
JSCC issued ¥486bn VM call in Q3
Estimated largest payment obligation sized at ¥620 billion
Why Europe’s markets might need Mifid III
Lawmakers leaning towards small-scale review, others call for fuller rewrite
Tradeweb’s IPO shows how OTC markets are changing
RFQ pioneer is embracing new protocols and liquidity providers in a bid to connect the OTC markets
Asia lenders usher in year of the virtual bank
The surge in online banking is informing risk technologies in traditional banks
Competitive differentiation – Reaping the benefits of XVA centralisation
A forum of industry leaders discusses the latest developments in XVA and the strategic, operational and technological challenges of derivatives valuation in today’s environment, including the key considerations for banks looking to move to a standardised…
At US G-Sibs, 30-day funding still in vogue
Short-term funding is secured by higher-quality collateral than two years ago
Eurozone banks' excess liquidity highly concentrated – ECB
German and French banks hoarding cash