Focussing on China, Malaysia, Pakistan and Qatar, the authors investigate how bank complexity impacts bank risk.

The Financial Times reported in June that European ports were experiencing the longest delays since the pandemic. Logistics companies blame US tariffs, which have forced shippers to change trade ...

Rayenda Khresna Brahmana, Ph.D., is a finance lecturer at the School of Economics, Finance, and Accounting, Coventry University, United Kingdom. Previously, he was a senior lecturer at the University ...

Goldman Sachs’ estimate of its own trading and counterparty losses in the latest Dodd-Frank Act stress test (DFAST) were significantly higher than the regulators’, coinciding with a major overhaul of ...

A senior Japanese regulator has urged jurisdictions yet to adopt the final Basel III capital rules to keep to their word. The call comes amid concerns among Japan’s banks that they face unfair ...

Some of the most dramatic VAR overshoots have taken place at the US ’s top systemic dealers. Goldman Sachs logged two in Q3 2024 alone, when losses reached 258% and 177% of VAR. JP Morgan recorded ...

When the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted in February to delay the deadlines for its US Treasury clearing mandate by a year, the fear was that it could break – or even reverse – the ...

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Amid the ongoing US-China trade war this year, Chinese exporters chose to hold steady on their hedge ratios, according to dealers, owing to high hedging costs and expectations of a stable spot rate.

The debate over 24/7 trading is dividing the derivatives industry in two. One camp, largely represented by crypto enthusiasts, sees continuous markets as both inevitable and risk-reducing. Its ...

Risk model validations will not slow overall under reworked clearing rules, says Klaus Löber, chair of the European Securities and Markets Authority’s central counterparty (CCP) supervisory committee.

For months, macro hedge funds have been betting that the US Treasury yield curve will continue to steepen. But with the steepening trend easing amid uncertainties around the US budget bill and rate ...