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Stress-testing to improve strategic decision‑making
Banking regulators remain focused on expanding and developing the range of stress-testing regimes across the globe to maintain stability, monitor emerging risks and avoid another financial crisis. Here, a forum of industry leaders discusses the evolution…
Deutsche to sell exotic equity derivatives portfolio
Structured trades go on the block following last month's sale of flow and prime broking assets
Default cascades and systemic risk on different interbank network topologies
This paper examines the relationship between the topology of interbank networks and their ability to propagate localized, idiosyncratic shocks across the banking sector via banks’ interbank claims on one another.
Institutional ETF trading: Liquidity improving, trade sizes growing
Sponsored survey report: Jane Street
JP Morgan reports further losses on Steinhoff loans
Hike in net charge-offs related to sale of bad loans to South African firm
Hunt for toxic flow hits one of banking’s old problems
Wider use of mark-out tools helps banks spot ‘bad’ trades – and also stirs debate on pay
‘People who bought this swap also bought Apple’
Dealers hope personalisation algos will help them cut sales costs, but data gaps could be a problem
Rise of the cyborgs: tech remakes the front office
Dealers “have no choice” but to change, says UBS’s Orcel – and plenty of changes are coming
Crédit Agricole de-risking saps earnings
Corporate and investment banking RWAs fall 11%; net income falls €103 million
Is wholesale banking disruption-proof?
Fintech threatens market-making, research and wealth management, writes eCo Financial Technology CEO
Robo-traders and robo-labour
Banks and buy-siders are starting to harvest the benefits of machine learning beyond the front office
Fintech and wholesale banking: why nothing has changed
Staff turnover, regulation among five factors holding banks back
Tough times for the real masters of the universe
Rules tie the hands of bank strategic investing units as fintech opportunities grow
Investors must probe bank culture, says veteran financier
Ex-Barclays chairman says managers should take “stewardship responsibility” for bank conduct
InfraHedge assets rise as other MAPs stagnate
State Street says managed accounts rise due to stripped-back, cut-price service
Hedge funds use specific criteria for prime broker selection
Picking a partner
Basel III capital charges to dent bank M&A activity
Capital controls
CFTC charges Corzine for MF Global collapse
Former chief executive charged alongside broking firm itself
Risk & Energy Risk commodity rankings 2013: Energy
Kinetic energy
Automation shapes banks’ structured product strategies
The race for automation