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How staff exodus could leave the OCC high and dry
A third of staff set to depart US regulator, but some teams will suffer much heavier losses
The investors who aren’t fretting over Trump’s stat sulk
Some see dismissal of statistics agency chief as an assault on US institutional integrity; for others it offers a chance to throw off outdated methods
How to solve the Fed’s $300bn FRTB problem
A sacrifice will have to be made to ensure new market risk rules meet demands for capital neutrality
Fed’s new leverage ratio: the horse that never left the gate
Most of the biggest dealers aren’t leverage constrained now, and experts are sceptical that banks will use the extra capacity for Treasuries
Speedy on-boarding: the push for faster model approvals
Europe’s banking watchdog is planning to streamline how it authorises credit model updates. Not a moment too soon, say bankers
Is this time different for Argentina?
Reserve shortage and overvalued currency cast a pall over an otherwise successful stabilisation campaign
Will the UK’s FRTB time warp turn into a horror show?
UK regulator’s proposed transition year in 2027 could double banks’ implementation work
Bank of England floats ‘quasi-IMA’ in FRTB standardised method
Dealers welcome new route to capitalising residual risk, but it could fragment global ruleset
Former OCC chief on the sting of peeling the Basel III ‘onion’
Michael Hsu warns successors not to cut bank capital or neglect rate risks that destroyed SVB
Fed succession planning: will Trump stick to the script?
The race to succeed Jerome Powell as head of the world’s most powerful central bank has already begun
Geopolitical ructions and the role of the dollar
Implications of the new US administration’s policies for the international monetary system and central banks
The future of money
Central banks may require more flexible inflation targets and facilitate wider payments interoperability to maintain trust and the ‘singleness’ of money. By Sethaput Suthiwartnarueput
BoE makes subtle leverage snipe at CCP cross-margining
Margin offsets might increase risk, but could also encourage more central clearing
CCAR at a turning point, but which way is forward?
Banks sniff an opportunity to push the Fed for more openness over stress test models – and seize capital benefits
Leverage ratio reform: the good, the bad and the Treasury
A simple cut would be less likely to stoke interest rate risk than exempting US government bonds
Why US banks are not taking their eye off reputational risk
The concept may be removed from supervisory exams, but the 2023 crisis showed the risk is real
Mr Bessent goes to Basel: the fate of global bank regulation
US resistance to international standards could spark greater fragmentation of prudential rules
What drove the Taiwan dollar surge?
Foreign speculators, carry unwinds and central bank inaction fuelled the 10% move, not just life insurers, say traders
US Basel equivalence questioned as EU patience wears thin
MEPs say unfaithful US implementation of Basel III could trigger review of access to EU markets
The implications of IFRS 18 for central banks
The new accounting rule on presentation and disclosure in financial statements may require changes in reporting practices and systems, complicating consistency and materiality considerations