Regulatory

How final are the Basel Committee’s market risk rules?

A primer on the Fed’s proposed stress capital buffer and stress leverage buffer (Premium)

Implementation Strategies for SFTR

Europe readies for CRD-V (Premium)

China goes after the IMF, with impacts for global finance

US regulation: not a bad time to be BBH, SunTrust or Mizuho (Premium)

The US SA-CCR proposal on collateral: generally speaking, good news for the markets (Premium)

The ECB’s Cœuré walks through ESTER: time is short to solve some tricky problems

A new analysis on the impact of central bank digital currencies to private banks

If brokers move their business to fintech firms, FINRA may not have oversight. Is this a good thing?

The ECB on repo in the Leverage Ratio: taking a strong stand today may not turn out well tomorrow

It’s go time for signing stay resolution agreements in securities finance (Premium)

Regulatory Changes and the Need for Collateral Flexibility

How the Basel change on settled-to-market will impact balance sheets (Premium)

European regulatory reporting for a global audience

SFM Magazine, Fall 2018, is now online

Europe is first to SFTR but won’t be last: expectations on the global rise of SFT reporting rules

Ten years after Lehman, another crisis is in the making (Premium)

Sanction backfire: a non-US payment system would change the balance of financial power

A US GDPR proposal is on the table

Defining “strong regulation” for safe banks

Finadium: CCPs, Liquidity and Regulatory Disputes on Systemic Risk

US Treasury fintech report: four impacts to securities finance

The SFTR win for firms that don’t trade with European counterparties

US House passes financial services reform – here’s what matters to capital markets (Premium)

SEC panelists: MiFID II not useful for credit markets yet and likely to get more complex (Premium)

One golden source data repository is necessary for smart regulation

SFM Magazine, Summer 2018, is now online

Regulatory reporting generates huge data sets, but what happens next?

Where do SFTs fall in the FRTB? There appears to be more than one answer

US single counterparty credit limit rules finalized – there are some important nuances here (Premium)

European and US repo markets are different, and that means one-size-fits-all-regulation is unwise

Wednesday news roundup: BNPP, Citi, OCC and more (Premium)

Don’t delay: it’s time to adopt SA-CCR

No one is happy about US deregulation except these people (Premium)

SFTR reporting will cause trouble for the buy-side; delegated reporting could expose positions

Manmohan Singh’s latest, “Leverage – A Broader View,” shows that build up in the banking system from off-balance sheet trades is huge

Fed’s Randal Quarles outlines face of banking regulation to come while the Fed issues a new SLR proposal

When looking at bankers leaving London post-Brexit, it’s computers as much as headcount (Premium)

Dodd-Frank reform passes US Senate but the House will be tough (Premium)

US Treasury issues recommendations to change US bank bankruptcies – does it matter? (Premium)

The Basel Committee thinks there are five bank scenarios for fintech disruption; only one matters in capital markets (Premium)

Man on a mission: the Bundesbank’s Andreas Dombret has a clear vision of Europe’s financial future

SFTR, Trade Data Repositories and Transparency: An Industry Challenge from the Inside Out

News Update: dividend taxes in Switzerland, the US and Germany; and what’s next for the Basel Committee (Premium)

MiFID II and Best Execution in SFTs: A Happy Ending After All?

A Proposal for Smart Regulation in European SFT Markets

The Minneapolis Fed wants a 15% Leverage Ratio and a 1.2% tax on secured financing. That’s one way to reduce risk…

Do EU margin requirements on anti-procyclicality for CCPs help or hurt risk management?

We’re not much worried about US tax reform’s impact on repo, but non-tri-party, non-DvP repo participants should stay alert