The Fed’s annual stress tests and capital analysis amount to a contest between the regulator’s models of large banks in a crisis and those of the banks themselves. The latest disclosures suggest troubling flaws in the Fed’s calculations.
Continue reading..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?
Continue reading..Deutsche Bank’s inability to control its investment bank compensation bill may have doomed John Cryan, analysis of pay disclosures suggests.
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.
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