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Key elements of the 2025 CCP Stress Test

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The Bank of England (BoE) has published key elements to its 2025 Stress Test of UK Central Counterparties (CCPs), along with a spreadsheet containing the relevant market stress scenarios. This exercise, the fourth of its...more

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Bank of England 2025 bank capital stress test launched

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The Bank of England (BoE) has launched the 2025 bank capital stress test for the seven largest and most systemic UK banks and building societies. The exercise is the successor to the Annual Cyclical Scenario. The test...more

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International bodies report on streamlining variation margin processes and initial margin responsiveness of margin models in...

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The Basel Committee on Banking Standards and International Organization of Securities Commissions published a final report on streamlining variation margin processes and initial margin responsiveness of margin models in...more

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CFPB Launches New Initiative Focused on Rural Communities

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In This Issue. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced a new initiative focused on financial issues faced by rural communities and also updated its examination procedures to cover unfair discrimination; the...more

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Financial Daily Dose 3.25.2020 | Top Story: Markets Jump On New Congressional Stimulus Deal Agreement

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Tuesday was one of those rare Bear Market good days. Renewed optimism about a forthcoming Congressional stimulus deal (including the estimated $2 trillion it encompasses) and more time to digest the Fed’s commitment to...more

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Unbowed by personal attacks from the White House, Fed Chair Jerome Powell delivered remarks to the Economic Club of New York on Wednesday that markets used as an excuse to jump nearly 600 points by the closing bell.  ...more

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International Standard Setters Publish Framework for Supervisory Stress Testing of Multiple CCPs

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The Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures and the International Organization of Securities Commissions have published a Framework for the supervisory stress testing of CCPs, following a joint consultation launched...more

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Here’s the other shoe for that news that all the big banks passed their Fed stress tests the other day: are the “bad old days of enormous leverage and freewheeling deals” and the risk inherent in them back, too?....more

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Troubled Japanese auto parts maker Takata, “crippled by vast airbag recalls,” has filed for bankruptcy protection in the US and is planning to sell its surviving operations to Key Safety Systems, an American rival owned by a...more

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The US’s biggest banks had a good day yesterday on news that they “breezed through” the first phase of the Federal Reserve’s annual stress tests—a good sign that they “have enough capital to withstand the type of financial...more

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Orrick's Financial Industry Week In Review

Financial Industry Developments - Class Action Against Lending Club and WebBank Headed to Defeat - On Monday, January 31, 2017, a federal district court in the Southern District of New York granted a motion to...more

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Orrick's Financial Industry Week In Review

Financial Industry Developments - Class Action Against Lending Club and WebBank Headed to Defeat - On Monday, January 31, 2017, a federal district court in the Southern District of New York granted a motion to...more

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SEC chief Mary Jo White has announced that she’ll be stepping down in early 2017—an expected move that nevertheless drives home the reality of the big changes ahead for the securities industry (and many others)....more

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Your daily dose of financial news - The Brief – 8.1.16

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And just like that, Uber’s ride-hailing war in China is over (for now, at least). Uber has agreed to sell Uber China to rival Didi Chuxing [though maintaining a 20% stake in the new company], creating a new company worth an...more

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Your daily dose of financial news - The Brief – 6.30.16

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US banks made a strong showing in part 2 of the latest round of the Fed’s stress tests. Only Morgan Stanley didn’t pass unconditionally (concerns over the company’s “internal controls and processes” tripped it up), while the...more

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Your daily dose of financial news - The Brief – 6.29.16

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Big financial firm stress test results are out from the Fed later today, and though all banks proved up to the task of reserving enough capital (as reported last Friday), the economic downturn simulation that’s part of round...more

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Your daily dose of financial news - The Brief – 6.21.16

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We reported last week on the additional $2 billion that Uber took in through the leveraged loan market. Andrew Ross Sorkin gives us an interesting reason for why Uber’s still got its hat in hand ($15 billion cash in hand and...more

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