European banks added €8.5 billion ($9.7 billion) of Additional Tier 1 (AT1) capital in the second quarter of 2026, a Risk Quantum analysis found. AT1 capital hit €196.2 billion and accounted for 15% ...

The picture is starting to take shape. Tokenisation of US Treasuries will happen later this year, after a 30-strong group of ...

Cash is an essential lubricant for the trading activities of hedge funds and prop trading firms. Liquid, fungible, readily ...

The European Central Bank’s first ever geopolitical reverse stress test has sparked a debate over whether eurozone lenders are correctly modelling liquidity and funding risks. “The reverse stress test ...

Despite ballooning to a record $4 trillion a day, the foreign exchange swaps and forwards markets have been surprisingly slow ...

Clearing industry sources have welcomed a new proposal from the US derivatives regulator that will allow members of CME to ...

For many organisations, whistleblowing remains something of a compliance necessity: a reporting channel designed to meet ...

What are DTCC’s digital US government debt securities? How do tokenised repo and other transactions work? These questions, ...

Hedge funds and foreign exchange options dealers are on high alert for a further round of intervention in the Japanese yen, ...

Banks in Singapore, China and Hong Kong reported a broad rise in risk-weighted assets (RWAs) for counterparty credit risk (CCR) in the first quarter of 2026, with Singaporean lenders’ aggregate CCR ...

Standard Chartered’s Stage 2 gross customer loans rose by $2.6 billion in Q2 2026 as the Iran war prompted the bank to transfer exposures affected by Middle East-related management overlays.

Returns on popular hedge fund strategy dwindle to as little as three basis points, while dealers make use of softened capital ...