International

Emerging Prudential Risks

Fintech at a Regulatory Crossroads

By Peter Guy | 27/02/2017

How financial technology could accelerate and exacerbate the next crisis remains unanswered.

Anti-Money Laundering

FATF Revises CTF Methodology

By Samuel Riding | 27/02/2017

Activities including natural resources trade included in definition of ‘economic support’ to terrorists.

Clearing & Post-Trade

IOSCO Backs VM Transition Period

By Samuel Riding | 23/02/2017

Group of regulators says strict implementation would reduce ability to hedge, damage liquidity.

Capital Adequacy

Capital Requirements – Excess Doesn’t Mean Excessive

By Peter Guy | 20/02/2017

When you consider their ‘too big to fail’ social function, it’s arguable whether banks could ever have too much capital.

Market Risk

OTC Margining – Delaying the Inevitable, Inevitably

By Samuel Riding | 16/02/2017

Regulators, and those they regulate, simply weren’t ready to implement variation margin requirements.

Structural Regulation

Snapchat – A New Low in Corporate Governance

By Peter Guy | 13/02/2017

IPO heralds pernicious introduction of arbitrage of listing rules, corporate governance.

Market Risk

ISDA Asks for 6-months Grace on VM Requirement

By Samuel Riding | 09/02/2017

Association says market participants aren’t ready, delay will have minimal impact.

Capital Adequacy

Making Banking Great Again

By Peter Guy | 06/02/2017

Trump’s ‘America first’ volley against Dodd-Frank will irrevocably alter the industry, again.

Structural Regulation

DTCC Appoints Ann Shuman as General Counsel

By Samuel Riding | 02/02/2017

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), announced that Ann Shuman, DTCC Managing Director and Deputy General Counsel, has been […]