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Basel Committee reviewing design of liquidity ratios
Focus on LCR and NSFR after Silicon Valley Bank and Credit Suisse, but assumptions may not change
Six Chinese banks set market risk records in Q1
Market RWAs spike 63% overall in first disclosures after rules update
BMO’s cloud migration strategy eases AI adoption
Canadian bank is beginning to roll out GenAI tool for internal use cases
Risk data
Execs can game sentiment engines, but can they fool LLMs?
Quants are firing up large language models to cut through corporate blather
FXSpotStream looks to growth products beyond spot
New chief exec Jeff Ward highlights NDFs and FX swaps as next boom area for the venue
For a growing number of banks, synthetics are the real deal
More lenders want to use SRTs to offload credit risk, but old hands say they have a long road ahead
Credit risk
How Man Group’s private credit arm keeps risk in check
Mid-market lending no place for weak covenants, flexible addbacks or payments in kind, says Varagon CEO
Risk transfer and the shift from camaraderie to competition
The risk transfer market could be moving into a more competitive, more transactional and, some fear, riskier cycle
Harsh judgements: why Stateside lenders are upping the Q-factor
As CRE stalls, qualitative adjustments are forming a larger part of US banks’ credit risk allowances
European regulators turn up the heat on IFRS 9 model overlays
After warnings from EBA and BoE, risk managers urge ‘soul-searching’ on post-model adjustments
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Six Chinese banks set market risk records in Q1
Market RWAs spike 63% overall in first disclosures after rules update
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Allianz Life drops single-name CDS positions in Q4
Counterparty Radar: US life insurance industry volumes sink to lowest level in two years
Generative AI
How Ally found the key to GenAI at the bottom of a teacup
Risk-and-tech chemistry – plus Microsoft’s flexibility – has seen US lender leap from experiments to execution
The bank quant who wants to stop GenAI hallucinating
Wells Fargo model risk chief thinks he has found a way to validate large language models
Digging deeper into deep hedging
Dynamic techniques and GenAI simulated data can push the limits of deep hedging even further, as derivatives guru John Hull and colleagues explain
Will generative AI crack the code for bank tech teams?
Banks could roll out tools to help translate old – or write new – code within months
Nervous UK pension schemes want liquidity fixes – it’ll cost them
Asset managers are crafting new ways for schemes to raise cash in a crisis
Stress testing
Did Fed’s stress capital buffer blunt CCAR?
Experts fear flagship test’s use as a capital top-up has undermined its role in risk management
The American way: a stress-test substitute for Basel’s IRRBB?
Bankers divided over new CCAR scenario designed to bridge supervisory gap exposed by SVB failure
Should the ECB stress-test counterparty default risks?
The US Fed already does, but it is notable that EU banks were less exposed to Archegos
Fed unveils hyper-Archegos test to reveal bank blow-up risks
CCAR for 2024 includes analysis of simultaneous defaults of five largest hedge fund clients
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