ICC Rethinking Trade Finance 2015
Every year the ICC release their survey on the current position of global trade finance. This publication always seems to deliver wonderful market insight for banks working with importers and exporters and, this year is no different. The ICC Trade Register Report and Survey captures 7.6 trillion goods and services exposure across the global supply chain with both good news and bad news encapsulated in the report. Some of the good news snippets may perhaps be found in the aggr
BIS Post Crisis Treatments
The Bank for International Settlements has just released a Post Global Financial Crisis treatment update and in its eyes all is good with the world, things are supposedly on track. I am not sure I entirely agree with the findings or the plans going forwards and I have my reservations but let's take a look nonetheless. The report can be found here | BIS Finalising Post Crisis On the surface, risk management or at least the coverage of it as Basel III has it defined has been co
Global Systemically Important Banks Update
The Financial Stability Board that was established in April 2009 as one of the regulatory outcomes from the global financial crisis, released an updated list of what it classifies as global systemically important banks. The 2015 update can be found here [LINK]. The methodology for rating these global banks is based on an indicator assessment that prioritises the following aspects of a bank’s business, size and importance. More information on the methodology can be found here
