OANDA, New York based forex trading serving provider recently revealed in an announcement that it has made a new addition to its APAC region senior level leadership team. As per statement released by the firm…
ICE Data Services Launches New Service With Credit…
ATLANTA & NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE), a leading operator of global exchanges and clearing houses and provider of data and listings services, today announced that ICE Data Services has launched ICE Credit Risk, an…
Shared National Credit review finds some improvement in…
Federal banking agencies find that risk in the portfolio of large syndicated bank loans has declined, due to improving conditions in most sectors. Despite the improvement, the dollar volume of loans rated below "pass," as…
The Deutsche Bundesbank publishes its 2018 Financial Stability…
Economic downside risks have risen: vulnerabilities in Germany’s financial system Vulnerabilities have built up in the German financial system during a period of strong economic expansion and low interest rates. An unexpectedly sharp economic downturn…
Credit Risk: The Definition of Default (BOE)
Overview In this Consultation Paper (CP), the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) sets out its proposed approach to implementing the European Banking Authority’s (EBA’s) recent regulatory products relating to the definition of default in the Capital…
ECB: Financial stability conditions in euro area remain…
24 May 2018 Improved economic conditions support financial stability environment Risk-taking in most financial markets gained momentum Bank profitability improved, but structural vulnerabilities remain Systemic risk for the euro area has remained low over the…
CBO Finds Fannie/Freddie CRT Program Moves Risk Away…
[caption id="attachment_307501" align="alignleft" width="134"] Federal Housing Finance Authority[/caption] A program to move risk in mortgage backed securities from the taxpayer to the private market has reduced US taxpayer’s risk exposure by 11%. That was the…
FHFA Mandates More CRTs in 2018
The regulator making most of the decisions for the two Government Sponsored Entities (GSE) released its outlook for 2018, and the credit risk transfer program will play a critical role. The Federal Housing Finance Authority…
CBO Gives Thumbs Up to CRT Markets
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) gave a thumbs up to the mortgage Credit Risk Transfer market. The primary function of the CBO is to “score bills”, a process by which the office predicts the effect…