A Swiss Parliament inquiry into Credit Suisse’s 2023 failure has criticised the “relaxation of capital requirements” granted by Finma, the country’s financial regulator.

Baruch College’s Master of Financial Engineering ranks first in the 2025 edition of Risk.net’s Quant Finance Master’s Guide, holding on to the top spot it clinched last year, amid strong demand for ...

The European Union’s ‘Fit-for-55’ climate stress test showed that the financial system was broadly resilient to transition risk barring any shocks – but for 13 banks, the baseline scenario would ...

Strategists at BlackRock say the idea of an anchor portfolio in asset allocation has become unhelpfully canonical – enshrined as if part of finance’s first principles, when it was never intended that ...

Once designated as G-Sibs by the Financial Stability Board (FSB) under the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s methodology, US banks are subject to two scoring processes. The BCBS-prescribed ...

In outline, the CrowdStrike outage in July illustrates why IT disruption continues to be a major bugbear for op risk managers ...

A rise in the cost of repo and foreign exchange derivatives has become a year-end tradition for several years now, as banks try to shed balance sheet exposures to keep a lid on future capital ...

A European Union-specific adjustment to global systemically important banks’ (G-Sibs) risk scores failed to win Deutsche Bank a lower surcharge, once again leaving BNP Paribas as the sole beneficiary ...