Prudential Risk

Capital Adequacy

Four Japanese Banks face Tighter Capital Requirements

By Samuel Riding | 26/11/2015

FSA to require the four banks to lift capital ratios by half a percentage point to ward off crisis.

Emerging Prudential Risks

The Land that Regulation Forgot

By Peter Guy | 23/11/2015

Asset managers unrealistically expect to escape iron grasp of SIFI regulation.

Clearing & Post-Trade

Markit Launches Automatic Risk Updater

By Samuel Riding | 20/11/2015

System for banks to automatically update risk profile after netting launches on LCH.Clearnet’s SwapClear.

Market Risk

Basel Committee Issues FRTB Interim Analysis

By Samuel Riding | 19/11/2015

Proposals could lead to 4.7 percent increase in Basel III capital requirements.

Trading & Investment

How Regulatory Easing is Attracting Global Capital to India

By Samuel Riding | 19/11/2015

Indian regulators’ forward thinking on market participation and products benefits investors and infrastructure providers alike.

Structural Regulation

China Considers Unified Financial Regulator

By Samuel Riding | 18/11/2015

Banking, insurance and securities regulators could be merged to help prevent repeat of summer chaos in Chinese markets.

Capital Adequacy

The Need to Refocus Bank Regulation

By Peter Guy | 16/11/2015

Banking’s dirty secret: no one knows how to make compliance work. What next for the universal banking model?

Resolution & Recovery

Four Japanese Banks Sign up to ISDA Protocol

By Samuel Riding | 13/11/2015

Quartet among 21 global financial institutions to sign up to revised protocol on special resolution regimes.

Capital Adequacy

Thailand Issues Consultation on Net Capital Rules

By Samuel Riding | 13/11/2015

SEC seeks comments on amendments to rules for calculating and reporting net liquid capital.