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FDIC shifts on leverage ratio

By Sharon Thiruchelvam
September 18, 2019, Global Investor Group

The Federal Deposit Insurance Company (FDIC) proposed a rule change yesterday that would decrease the community bank leverage ratio (CBLR) framework, …

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Foreign Exchange Transactions and Over-the-Counter Interest Rate Derivatives Hit Record Highs

By Mayra Rodriguez Valladares, MRV Associates
Originally published in Forbes

Anyone who is still claiming that Basel III rules, Dodd-Frank, or international agreed upon derivatives reforms would hurt trading volumes …

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Industry expects U.S. FRTB proposals by year-end

By Samuel Wilkes
September 16, 2019, Risk

Industry sources are expecting the Federal Reserve to release draft proposals of the US version of Basel trading book capital requirements by the …

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Revealed: FRTB impact three times higher than expected

By Samuel Wilkes
September 2, 2019, Risk

Final market risk capital rules will lead to a higher increase in bank capital requirements than previous estimates given by international regulators earlier …

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Global banks fear Hong Kong frontrunning FRTB

By Blake Evans-Pritchard
August 28, 2019, Risk

Hong Kong’s insistence that it will stick to the Basel Committee’s timetable for implementing the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) is …

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US G-SIBs grow and multiply ties with other banks

By Alessandro Aimone
August 28, 2019, Risk

Systemic risk data shows too-big-to-fail US banks became larger and more entwined with other financial institutions in the second quarter of this year.…

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Europe’s regulators grope for value of software

By Philip Alexander
August 22, 2019, Risk

In 2014, Michael Corbat, chief executive officer of Citigroup, referred to the multinational lender as “a technology company with a banking licence” – …

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