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With approval from the Securities and Exchange Commission to provide central clearing of securities financing transactions (SFTs), the National Securities Clearing Corp. (NSCC) aims to give buy-side...
July 22, 2022 | By John Hintze
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) is considering changes to how government-sponsored entities (GSEs), like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, apply credit scores in their assessment of mortgage...
April 8, 2022 | By Clifford Rossi
Robinhood and other brokerages restricted trading last January in GameStop and other so-called meme stocks when they faced significant capital calls by Depository Trust & Clearing Corp.’s National...
December 3, 2021 | By John Hintze
Was the downfall in March of Archegos Capital Management a case of financial-crisis dÉjÀ vu? It conjured up memories of past panics, notably the 1998 collapse of Long-Term Capital Management and,...
May 28, 2021 | By L.A. Winokur
Bad loans and deteriorating asset quality continue to plague banks in India. Last September, the gross non-performing assets ratio (GNPA) at Indian banks stood at 7.5%, but that number potentially...
March 5, 2021 | By Nupur Pavan Bang
The unprecedented trading volume and volatility spikes in the U.S. Treasuries market in March, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, rekindled an ongoing discussion around the ideal market structure...
November 25, 2020 | By Murray Pozmanter
As we enter the peak of one the busiest US North Atlantic hurricane seasons in history, now is the time to reflect on the prospective effects of hurricanes on a major asset class of many financial...
September 11, 2020 | By Clifford Rossi
It has been almost two years since the massive Equifax data breach came to light. In the aftermath, the CEOs of the three major credit reporting companies (CRCs) - Equifax, Experian and TransUnion -...
August 30, 2019 | By Frank Tian
As the implementation deadline for the Current Expected Credit Loss (CECL) accounting standard nears, financial institutions are now feeling the compliance heat. However, calculating future losses is...
August 23, 2019 | By Alla Gil
Reviews of the Financial Accounting Standards Board's recent hedge accounting changes have been highly favorable, and they're likely to become even more so should additional changes, soon to be...
June 28, 2019 | By John Hintze
As the December 2019 deadline for the Current Expected Credit Loss (CECL) standard draws nearer, financial institutions need to think beyond compliance. Meeting all the rules for the new accounting...
April 12, 2019 | By Varun Agarwal
Post-financial-crisis mandates for central clearing of derivatives have had the intended effect. Cleared U.S. interest rate derivatives volume, for example, exceeded 88% in 2018, according to the...
April 5, 2019 | By Jeffrey Kutler
In an ideal world, we would develop CRE credit risk models using a complete data set representing loans from commercial banks, insurance companies, asset managers and CMBS. However, CRE loan-level...
February 2, 2019 | By Eric Bao and Sumit Grover
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