Risky Finance

Did EU banks really ‘slash’ exposure to the UK?
How an EBA data release became fake news
Should councils pay interest penalties on government loans?
The impact of UK Treasury rules
How big mutual funds use derivatives
Analysing the exposures of two Pimco and Blackrock bond funds

Handicapping Goldman’s 1MDB liabilities
Banks
The 1MDB scandal may result in a record legal settlement for Goldman Sachs. Risky Finance visualises the expected loss and explores how life-changing it might be for Goldman.

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What happened in bank risk last year?
Banks
Dismantling Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan's Steinhoff fallout and the return of securitisation

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Risk Commentary

Seven things you didn’t know about the Goldman-Greece swap
15 years after it was signed, the Goldman-Greece swap continues to be a reputational problem for the bank. A longer feature that reviews a decade's wo...
Burning down the house
An analysis of 800 collateralised debt obligations rated by Standard & Poor's
Lost Lobos
This article was the first rigorous financial analysis of Lender Option Borrower Option (LOBO) loan contracts obtained from UK councils. The article l...
Autogeddon
Just over two years ago, I took a train from Berlin to Wolfsburg, to visit a senior executive at Volkswagen.

Book Reviews
The Book of Why Advances in Financial Machi...
Commentary
Sovereigns

Brazil’s refinancing ...
How Greece outperformed Apple

What happened in bank ris...
Dismantling Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan's Steinhoff f...
Handicapping Goldman’s ...
The 1MDB scandal may result in a record legal sett...
Where would the market be...
The decline in equity markets seen in the last few...
Is size becoming a risk f...
The recent correction in S&P 500 stocks saw a reve...

Steel and the pusillanimous pension rule