Rapid loan growth has turned out to be a good indicator regarding non-performing loans later on and is a warning for countries that have experienced fast credit expansion recently. But this relationship doesn’t have to hold true, as Justin Pugsley reports. 

The proliferation of cognitive-type technologies is a new challenge for compliance teams to monitor, but their rapid development and complexity mean non-specialists are having trouble keeping up. By Justin Pugsley.

ECB paper finds that negative interest rates are particularly penalising for banks heavily reliant on deposits and could potentially create financial stability risks

European Commission president calls for deeper EU capital markets and a greater global role for the euro

A Barclays sponsored hackathon has potentially identified new paths for making post-trade derivatives processes more efficient using ISDA’s common domain model and may transform how the industry interacts with regulators. By Justin Pugsley

The second phase of the EU’s rules governing securities lending and repo markets is creating all kinds of headaches for market participants due to highly detailed reporting requirements and remaining loose ends around identifiers

ESMA has rejected all of the European Commission's proposals to make technical amendments on a regulation governing securities and repos lending, leaving the industry concerned that it will create further delays on clarifying identifier standards

The aftermath of the global financial crisis unleashed probably the biggest overhaul of financial regulations in history. But despite herculean efforts to make the financial system more resilient, commentators do still see some worrying deficiencies