INTERNATIONAL

Market Infrastructure

FRTB – Ending or Evolving Trading Culture

By Peter Guy | 28/05/2018

FRTB will force banks to change their operating models, bringing them out of product and trading desk silos. Bank trading culture and the trading desk concept may need to evolve to accommodate a wider picture of risk taking.

Fintech / Regtech

GDPR – Frankenstein’s Monster of Regulation

By Peter Lancos | 22/05/2018

Given the 25 May go-live date, financial institutions in Asia need to immediately consider their obligations under GDPR, which will apply to any firm with clients or employees who are EU citizens.

Capital / Liquidity

US Fed Vice Chairman Suggests Lower Capital Requirements for Foreign Banks

By JP Reimann | 21/05/2018

Vice chairman proposes lowering capital requirements, streamlining resolution rules of failing foreign banks, in acknowledgment of steps taken by other regulators.

Securities / Derivatives

Growing Liquidity Requirements, a Regulatory Hazard for Asset Managers

By Peter Guy | 21/05/2018

Asset managers resist bank-like capital and liquidity regulations being contemplated by regulators. But new requirements appear unavoidable given recent regulatory trends.

Capital / Liquidity

BCBS, IOSCO Target Simple, Transparent Securitisation Structures

By Garima Chitkara | 16/05/2018

Preferential regulatory capital treatment to be applied for banks acting as investors in or as sponsors of short-term securitisations that meet ‘simple, transparent and comparable’ criteria.

Fintech / Regtech

IOSCO Meets to Discuss Investor Protection, Emerging Risks

By JP Reimann | 15/05/2018

Board to develop support framework to help members address impact of ICOs on investor protection; agree to launch ‘Fintech Network’ to facilitate collaboration on fintech.

Capital / Liquidity

When FRTB Meets the Real World

By Peter Guy | 14/05/2018

The Fundamental Review of the Trading Book was supposed to redefine how banks collectively manage risks. Yet, risk can still be a ‘ghost in the machine’.

AML / KYC

CPMI Releases Strategy for Reducing Wholesale Payments Fraud

By JP Reimann | 09/05/2018

Central banks urge stakeholders to pursue adoption of common strategy to improve security of wholesale payments; will monitor progress to determine the need for further action.

Enforcement

FSB Issues Recommendations on Compensation Data Reporting

By Editors | 08/05/2018

Proposed data sets include questions for determining whether governance processes appropriately use compensation and incentive systems to promote good conduct, remediate undesirable conduct and support identification of emerging misconduct risk.