UK life insurers have amped up leverage in structured gilt trades to as much as four times, as an uncertain economic outlook ...

US banks made no progress on the economic value of equity (EVE) transparency in 2025, with Morgan Stanley remaining the only US global systemically important bank (G-Sib) that neither disclosed nor ...

Regulators carved out GenAI models from new risk guidance. Banks shouldn’t see this as a reason to stop validating them.

Hedge fund financing reached a record $8.04 trillion at the end of 2025, bringing total growth over the year to an all-time ...

Investors are once again piling back into the emerging market foreign exchange carry trade as they return to strategies that delivered significant profits before the breakout of the Iran conflict.

Banks found much to cheer in the Basel III endgame proposal issued by US regulators on March 19. The one thing missing was a ...

In the ongoing arm-wrestle between single- and multi-dealer platforms, the latter have an inbuilt advantage. MDPs allow users ...

Target residual interest (TRI) as a share of customer funds fell to record lows at nine major US futures commission merchants (FCMs) in February, more than a third of the 24 firms reporting the ...

Skipping hard yards of internal ratings-based approach might trip higher capital charges and implementation costs ...

JP Morgan’s reliance on federal funds and repurchase agreements surged in the first quarter, with the funding representing 15.8% of total liabilities as of March 31 – the highest share in over 15 ...

Banks’ enthusiasm for an initiative by the European Banking Authority (EBA) to simplify the credit risk capital framework may ...

Banks’ willingness to provide financing to private credit funds is undermining the integrity of synthetic risk transfers ...