Articles by Joanna Wright
Top venues mull offering joint EU consolidated tape
Market participants worry venue-led CT is designed to protect high-cost data services
Bank consortium seeks to cure post-trade data ills
Project led by Societe Generale uses privacy-enhancing technologies to tackle data management problems
How UBS kept workers plugged in during the pandemic
Swiss bank’s A3 virtual desktop system offers a blueprint for remote working
SEC may allow wider cross-margining of single-name CDS
Banks want to cross-margin single-name CDS against options, indexes and cash products
US swaps end-users cry foul over SA-CCR punch
Capital on non-margined trades jumps 90%, and energy firms face double hit
Realism or deregulation? Fed sidelined in oversight of insurers
Proposed activities-based approach to non-bank systemic risk will make Sifi designations less likely
Data gap leaves six foreign banks in US regulatory limbo
New Fed FBO proposal relies on an indicator that banks have not yet been reporting
CFTC paves way for no-deal Brexit swaps transfers
Affiliate transfers would not trigger US margin rules if UK crashes out of EU without a deal
CFTC nominee opposes EU oversight of US clearing houses
In EU-US turf war, Heath Tarbert says US CCPs should be ‘exclusively supervised’ by US regulators
Fed may delay counterparty limits for foreign banks
Other countries need time to catch up on Basel large exposures rule, Fed official says
CFTC seeks trading venue equivalence in Asia
As it strives for a seamless Brexit, the CFTC also nears deals with Asian jurisdictions
Foreign banks expect Fed proposal imminently
New framework for tiering FBO requirements could come as early as this week
Giancarlo’s last stand: the race to complete Sef reforms
Part of flagship proposals could be left to his successor, putting their fate in doubt
Unmoved, Fed stands by G-Sib surcharge
Facing down frenetic lobbying and even US Treasury, central bank doesn’t blink on surcharge
Fed to persist with insurance capital proposals
Quarles indicates Fed will follow through on building block approach designed by previous board
Regulators rethink Volcker overhaul to solve accounting glitch
Bankers urge cancellation of new definition of prop trades that could capture liquidity buffers
For US banks, billions in regulatory manna
The unwind should help mid-tier banks, but the G-Sib impact is a complex balancing act
Clearing houses urge CFTC to act on non-default losses
US clearing members divided on whether NDLs are CCPs’ responsibility or a mutual risk
FDIC suspends resolution plans for deposit takers
Requirement for opcos of bank holding companies could be tailored or scrapped entirely
Banks scent margin offset in US SA-CCR proposal
US agencies seek comment on whether IM should be recognised in leverage ratio calculations
US regionals may get $8bn capital break in Fed proposal
Under tailored framework, mid- and small banks would also get $77bn liquidity relief
SEC’s Stein sounds alarm on portfolio margining
Comment period on single-name CDSs is covert attempt at rulemaking, regulator says
Searching for the end of Giancarlo’s white-paper trail
CFTC chairman faces key test to turn thought leadership into real reform
SA-CCR proposal imminent, Fed adviser says
NSFR could also be finalised before year-end; final stress capital buffer rule expected in early 2019