Cash and highly liquid securities dominate the mix of assets that banks hold in their liquidity buffer. In Risk.net ’s latest ...

Shadow banks expanded at twice the pace of the traditional banking sector in 2024, data from the Financial Stability Board (FSB) shows. Non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) reached $256.77 trillion ...

Futures brokers are rushing to relocate high-frequency trading clients’ servers away from on-exchange facilities to comply with new guidelines from Chinese venues that restrict direct co-location, but ...

Ring-fencing remains a “critical” part of the UK’s regulatory framework, the deputy governor for markets at the Bank of ...

Increased geopolitical instability in Latin America in recent weeks has failed to dissuade investors from putting on foreign ...

European Union regulators are ready to work with international peers to establish a global taxonomy for classifying ...

Equity exotics desks have seen a rush of demand for downside hedges whose strikes automatically recalibrate with rising ...

US systemic dealers’ notional amounts of credit derivatives surged by more than one-fifth in Q3 2025, reaching their highest level in nine years.

Banks generally fall into one of two camps: those that treat AI as a model risk that needs to be managed by specialised teams ...

Inflation ranks as the third-biggest risk in Risk.net’s Top 10 investment risks, our annual survey based on interviews with buy-side managers. Inflation has ranked among the top three in each of the ...

A study by Japanese academics, based on a vast dataset of trades from the Tokyo Stock Exchange, gives an intriguing insight into the relationship between price impact and the square-root law.

Wells Fargo’s contributions to central counterparty (CCP) default funds jumped 19.8% during the third quarter of 2025, coinciding with a surge in cleared derivatives activity.