Capital Requirements
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SA-CCR switch clouded by confusion over netting sets
By Costas Mourselas
November 25, 2020, Risk
US banking regulators have been asked to clarify whether certain client cleared trades can be included in netting sets under the standardised approach …
Isda study reveals size of Covid’s trading book capital hike
By Samuel Wilkes
November 20, 2020, Risk
A study by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association has found trading book risk-weighted assets faced an average increase of 25% across 20 …
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Fannie, Freddie Should Hold $280 Billion in Capital, FHFA Says
By Andrew Ackerman
November 18, 2020, The Wall Street Journal
Mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will have to hold hundreds of billions of dollars of capital to absorb …
Britain decouples from EU with delay to bank and investment rules
By Huw Jones
November 16, 2020, Reuters
New capital rules for banks and investment firms will be implemented at the start of 2022, six months later than originally indicated to …
Biggest U.S. Banks Aren’t as Strong as They Appear, Group Says
By Yalman Onaran
November 2, 2020, Bloomberg
The largest U.S. banks are less healthy than they appear, boosted by temporary accounting and capital-relief measures as well as massive market support …
Basel Committee to persist with bank requirements even as pandemic spreads, official says
By Neil Roland
October 20, 2020, MLex
Implementation of Basel III capital and liquidity requirements for banks shouldn’t be slowed due to the pandemic because these global reforms, while incomplete, …
UK increases sentence for market abuse in post-Brexit financial regulation plans
By David Milliken
October 21, 2020, Reuters
Britain set out a roadmap for post-Brexit financial regulation on Wednesday, saying it wanted to improve regulatory standards and would increase the maximum …
EU watchdog sets out software capital relief for banks
By Huw Jones
October 14, 2020, Reuters
The safety buffers of banks in the European Union would swell by billions of euros under proposed rules that allow lenders to include …
LCRs of big EU banks rebound faster than smaller rivals in Q2
By Lorenzo Migliorato
October 9, 2020, Risk
European banks boosted their aggregate liquidity coverage ratio by 19 percentage points through Q2, with the bloc’s giants replenishing buffers at a faster …
Pandemic shows need to rework bank capital buffers, says EU
By Huw Jones
October 1, 2020, Reuters
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted flaws in the process by which banks can draw down from their capital buffers in a crisis to …
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Dark pool trading shows no sign of decline since MiFID II entry into force, ESMA data shows
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EU Regulators Spill More Ink Tackling Market Data Costs
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Mifid II: has European regulation ever truly converged?
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UK watchdog sees no big divergence from EU securities market rules
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EU Withholding Finance Access Is ‘Really Regrettable’, U.K. Says
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Dark pool trading shows no sign of decline since MiFID II entry into force, ESMA data shows
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EU Regulators Spill More Ink Tackling Market Data Costs
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Mifid II: has European regulation ever truly converged?
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UK watchdog sees no big divergence from EU securities market rules
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EU Withholding Finance Access Is ‘Really Regrettable’, U.K. Says