April 19th & 20th, 2016 – In the years since the financial crisis, the primary risk oversight process utilized by the US regulators has been the Comprehensive Capital Adequacy & Review, known as CCAR. The Federal Reserve Bank administers these exercises on an annual basis. The 2015 CCAR examination involved 31 bank holding companies comprising 80% of total US domestic consolidated assets. While there has been significant improvement in the… Read More »
Thursday, March 3rd, 2016 by GEORGE BOLLENBACHER In an earlier article I took a look at an unintended, but very real, conflict between two components of the EU market rule catharsis known as MiFID II/MiFIR – best execution vs pre-trade transparency. Now it’s time to look into another conflict, between best ex and the trading obligation. Let’s start with the rules themselves. Article 27 of MiFID II requires firms… Read More »