Since adopting Basel III reporting standards three years ago, the biggest US banks have started reducing risk weights while increasing lending. Is this a reflection of a healthy US economy or European-style gaming of internal models?
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Continue reading..A scandal at South African group Steinhoff has hit the large banks that lent $1.6bn to the company’s largest shareholder. Differences in the way banks treated the exposure highlight hidden risks in the financial system.
Continue reading..A €350bn decline in the exposure of EU banks to UK counterparties was widely interpreted as an exodus sparked by Brexit, but closer analysis of the data refutes this interpretation.
Continue reading..Morgan Stanley has vaulted over Goldman this year in fixed income trading. Analysis of risk disclosures helps explain the divergence between the two firms.
Continue reading..Is the Fed’s DFAST stress test telling us that banks are getting safer, or are the banks just getting better at doing the internal modelling?
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