Systemic risk
Bank of England's FPC seeks to unlock Basel III tool-kit
Systemic risk committee at the Bank of England calls for power to use tools - such as liquidity and leverage ratios, and margin standards - to influence systemic risk
Banks fear Fatca raises operational and systemic risks
Facing up to Fatca
Fatca could lead to systemic and reputational risk, says BBA
The BBA has submitted a letter to the US Treasury and IRS raising concerns that Fatca could cause systemic and reputational risk
LTCM had ‘too much risk to be sustainable’ says Myron Scholes
Collapse of Long Term Capital Management was due to excessive leverage and shows perils of over-reliance on classical portfolio theory
Marking systemic portfolio risk with the Merton model
Marking systemic portfolio risk with the Merton model
Hedge funds not systemically risky, but UK regulator issues caveats
UK FSA's Hedge Fund survey and Hedge Fund as Counterparty survey find systemic risk low, but it does offer limited warnings
Lamb discusses CME Clearing Europe's goals
A clear goal
Video: Reliance Capital's Lav Chaturvedi on risk management in India and the dangers of reg arb
Lav Chaturvedi, chief risk officer at Reliance Capital, speaks about the challenges facing the derivatives industry in India, including the introduction of a credit default swaps market, and the dangers of regulatory arbitrage in the current regulatory…
BoE’s Haldane highlights increasing risks from high-frequency trading
Bank of England executive director of financial stability Andrew Haldane outlines policy measures to reduce systemic threat posed by high-frequency trading
Central clearing: safe as houses?
New regulations mandating the central clearing of OTC derivatives bring operational risks for central counterparties and increased exposure to systemic risk. In the second of a two-part series, ORR looks at the problems and opportunities for clearing…
Marking systemic portfolio risk with the Merton model
Marking systemic portfolio risk with the Merton model
Ex-IMF adviser calls for 'hard rules' on cross-border resolution
Former IMF adviser Rosa Lastra says international regulatory framework should apply 'hard' rules on cross-border resolutions
Dealers fight back amid ETF regulatory scrutiny
Holding back the regulatory tide
Collection of videos from the Risk Europe 2011 conference
A selection of videos from the Risk Europe 2011 conference on April 5 & 6 in Brussels, Belgium
NY Fed’s Krieger: liquidity backstop for shadow banks vital
New York Federal Reserve executive vice-president Sandra Krieger stresses importance of backstop measures to reduce systemic risk arising from shadow banking activities
Map of global banking network shows climb in contagion since late 1980s
Bank of England paper uses BIS banking stats to show potential for cross-border contagion has been rising for past two decades, reaching its apogee at the time of the Lehman Brothers’ collapse
Iosco draws systemic risk roadmap for securities regulators
International Organisation of Securities Commissions sets out ways in which securities authorities can help control systemic risk
Fed wants right to choose which non-banks pose systemic threat
Federal Reserve rule proposes that it will have discretion to determine whether non-bank financial firms come under Financial Stability Oversight Council’s watch on case-by-case basis
Swiss authorities ink deal on crisis collaboration
Swiss National Bank, finance ministry and regulator sign memorandum on supervisory cooperation
The impact of Basel III on systemic risk and counterparty risk
Market analysis: Basel III
Hu takes leave of the SEC
The Fin man
Basel Committee considers capital charges on CCP default fund exposures
Basel Committee considers capital charges on CCP default fund exposures
The financial stability puzzle
The financial stability puzzle
Ex-Morgan Stanley team create systematic trading investment boutique
Investment focus said to be on highly liquid, transparent instruments, and strategy will use a quantitative approach