Seven of the 22 banks assessed in this year’s Dodd-Frank Act stress test (DFAST) saw their core capital ratios drop below their full requirements under the US Federal Reserve’s severely adverse ...

The authors propose a means with which to represent and compare three key functions of payment system architectures: issuance ...

Growing use of non-cash collateral is whipping up interest in the use of tri-party structures – which are typically associated with initial margin posting – for meeting variation margin payments.

Towards the end of last year, Vontobel’s quantitative investment arm built an AI stock-picking assistant to help its portfolio managers improve on their personal investment approach. The Swiss asset ...

Required margin for cleared swaps grew to a record high at US futures commission merchants (FCMs) in the first half of June, data from the National Futures Association shows. The 17 reporting firms ...

In its whitepaper on collateral liquidity efficiency in the derivatives market, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association’s Future Leaders in Derivatives (IFLD) group made 16 recommendations ...

More striking still is the preponderance of RWAs that cannot be classified under any of Basel 2.5’s four building blocks.

AI is transforming financial services. Regulatory requirements, compliance demands and concerns over data consistency are ...

US regulators’ ability to supervise bank models is being called into question, as quant teams at the Office of the ...

Former regulators doubt the three US prudential agencies will be able to release fresh proposals implementing internationally ...

Banks have had to speed up their market risk management processes in response to the volatile trading conditions that have ...

For months, macro hedge funds have been betting that the US Treasury yield curve will continue to steepen. But with the ...