Capital requirements
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Goodhart: CoCos 'not silver bullets' for bank capital reform
Regulators should ban dividend payments or curb banker pay to conserve cash, instead of championing Cocos, says economist
Compliance vendors triumph in adversity
Compliance providers have found new customers as a result of the recently changed regulatory environment, while adopting integrated approaches to make the best of tightened budgets everywhere. David Benyon reports
China readies for launch of onshore CDS
Financial risk management tools seen as essential for Chinese bank development
Basel III: kill or be killed
The Basel Committee is trying to prevent a repeat of the financial crisis with a package of new rules, but banks argue the cure could be worse than the disease. After spending the past two months filling out spreadsheets on the impact of the proposals,…
Dampening pro-cyclicality in margin
The Committee on the Global Financial System has released a proposal recommending changes to dampen pro-cyclicality in margin practices and haircuts for securities financing and over-the-counter derivatives. How could this affect collateral management…
Banks call for Basel III rewrite as QIS exercise ends
The industry hopes the impact study will lead to a rewrite of proposed new rules on capital, liquidity and leverage.
Recording mobile calls creates compliance minefield for banks
The UK FSA seeks to require firms to record all relevant conversations made on mobile phones
Cebs issues guidelines on capital adequacy of cross-border banks
Regulator seeks consistent approach to capital requirements across the European Union.
Doubts raised over viability of Lloyds CoCo bonds trigger
Bankers and regulators are looking at possible standards for contingent capital, but are struggling with the definition of an appropriate trigger.
What does VAR mean in 2010?
Value-at-risk figures fell across the industry in 2009, while exceptions dropped significantly from levels in 2007 and 2008. But discussion over what VAR figures actually show and how the numbers are interpreted by senior management continues. By…
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Standard Chartered delivered an impressive set of results for 2009 even as its competitors across the world continued to suffer the fallout of the financial crisis. Group head of financial markets, Lenny Feder, talks about the successes of the year and…
Contingency plans
Following recent issues of contingent capital by Lloyds Banking Group and Rabobank, other firms are eyeing similar issuance as a means of meeting higher capital requirements in a cost-effective way. But the Basel Committee, which is due to discuss the…
A capital suggestion
To prevent another financial crisis, should regulators introduce more of the same – that is, greater capital requirements – or should they take a completely different approach and address corporate culture and behaviour instead?
The problem is severity
Financial reformers talk endlessly about the too-big-to-fail problem, but they often fail to address the heart of the issue, argues David Rowe
Future options
Tomorrow’s derivatives market looks likely to shift away from exotic products to focus more heavily on centrally cleared vanilla trades. Dealers hope to see a big jump in volumes, which will offset a smaller decline in margins. They also have an eye on…
Unrealised gains out of their hands
Some regulators have suggested profits based on uncertain valuations of complex products should not be allowed to flow into earnings and be distributed in the form of dividends and bonuses – a move that potentially has massive implications for the…