Basel III

Analysis of the Basel consultation on minimum haircut floors for SFTs (Premium)

Finadium: Total Return Swaps and Bank Resource Optimization

Natixis’s Bertrand Bordais, Government Bond Repo Head for GSF, on EU repo market conditions and the outlook for the coming year

ECB helps bank Leverage Ratios but doesn’t address the bigger Basel challenge (Premium)

Finadium: Planning for Securities Finance After COVID-19

Reader feedback on our report, “Leverage Ratios, SA-CCRs and Securities Finance” (Premium)

Assessing the benefits of loosening Dodd-Frank’s Collins Amendment (Premium)

Will Basel IV’s complexity mean the end of internal market models? (Premium)

ECB collateral adjustments help, but the EU must still take big moves on bank balance sheets (Premium)

US adoption of SA-CCR means easing for derivatives clearers and incremental liquidity for big banks

The future of global regulatory agencies in an era of fragmentation

Winners and losers from the Basel Committee’s Leverage Ratio changes on margin and window-dressing

Finadium: The US SA-CCR, Derivatives and Securities Finance Competition

For US banks, is CCAR or the Leverage Ratio the binding constraint on securities finance

Comments on whether the US NSFR will be a binding constraint on securities finance

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

Europe readies for CRD-V (Premium)

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

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

Defining “strong regulation” for safe banks

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

Notes from CASLA: NSFR, Corporate Bonds and Cannabis (Premium)

Analysis of new regulatory thinking at the Federal Reserve (Premium)

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

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

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

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

Finadium Survey: Better Regulation for Europe’s Securities Financing Transactions

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

A Proposal for Smart Regulation in European SFT Markets

Success stories this week in securities finance (Premium)

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

More firms get serious about real-time exposure management for collateral (Premium)

The Basel Committee works to figure out sovereign risk on bank balance sheets

A quick primer on “settled-to-market” vs. “collateralized-to-market” in counterparty credit risk (Premium)

Finalizing Basel III: the revised Leverage Ratio gets a thumbs down and really isn’t final anyhow

Implementing Change in 2018

What does “recalibrating” the Leverage Ratio mean?

Our thoughts on CCPs and repo market efficiencies

Is the FRTB on semi-permanent hold?

CM2025: the physical market rebounds

Finadium: European Prime Brokerage Survey: Customers, Capital and Business Models

Are carve-outs in national versions of the Leverage Ratio a good idea?

Debating solutions to the US Supplementary Leverage Ratio problem (Premium)

Hong Kong, Singapore or EU post-Brexit: will Advanced Approach bank capital models be a consideration? (Premium)

The Basel Committee’s “national discretion” for NSFR derivatives liabilities is not enough to justify implementation

Our slides from the Oct 3 London event, “Market Competition, Europe and US regulations” (Premium)

The layering of regulatory cost on Securities Financial Transactions

How fast could deregulation occur in US financial markets? Comments from Fed Vice-Chair Stanley Fischer suggest some answers