Nordic countries
Nordic banks’ RWAs rise $9bn on Swedish risk-weight floor rejig
Constraints on real-estate exposure modelling result in Pillar 2 charges moving to Pillar 1 requirements
Nordea’s trading VAR keeps climbing amid rate hike jitters
Trading risk gauge surged 17% through Q4
Parallel lines: EU begins fight over Basel output floor
Leaked plan to exclude buffers from floor would please EU banks, could anger Basel and US
Nordic noir: Swedish state pension fund’s outlook is austere
Sweden’s AP1 aims to ditch illiquid assets and target realistic returns with equities
Danske drains excess liquidity, reducing LCR
Nordic bank cuts LCR to 121% at end-2018 from 171% the year prior
BIS slams Nasdaq Clearing for risk management failures
One clearing member says it is giving notice to quit bourse, citing concerns over the concentration of risk on the venue
Risk.net podcast: DTCC’s Lind on FRTB, data pooling and NMRFs
As many as 70 banks globally could adopt the internal model approach for market risk capital
FRTB: Nordic banks mull regional data pool
Local tie-up could “prevent the big banks from entering the markets in the Nordics”, says local risk manager
Nordea de-risking improves loan-loss ratio
Provisions down €73 million year-on-year
‘Catching the outliers’ does not always make sense for Basel
The capital impact of Basel III on Nordic banks is disproportionate to the risks they face
North-South divide: Basel makes Nordic and Dutch banks bristle
Lobbyists confident EU policymakers can be persuaded to implement softer credit risk rules
Only 1% of bonds caught in first wave of Mifid transparency
Trax estimates 5% of corporate bonds will be subject to full transparency after four-year phase-in
MTF bilateral trading protocol offers Mifid arbitrage
Nordic banks to use the protocol to benefit from longer deferral period
Day of the Mifids: what happens on January 3?
Continued ambiguities in the rules could hit European market liquidity at the start of 2018
Nordic region house of the year: Commerzbank
Command of flow and bespoke structured products puts Commerzbank ahead of the pack
Regulators see 'long journey' to getting Orsas right
Insurers still treating own-risk assessment too much like a compliance exercise, Nordic supervisors say
Best in the Nordic region: Commerzbank
Structured Products Europe Awards 2015: In spite of challenging market conditions and a ratings downgrade that hit its Swedish retail business, Commerzbank has dominated the Nordic region with several innovative new products
Commerzbank draws on bespoke and high volume issuance
Commerzbank's balanced, consistent and sometimes careful approach has served it well in the Nordics this year, and helped the bank win the award for best in the region
Structured product providers eye pension-specific investments
UK measures giving people more control over their pensions and the EU's exclusion of pensions from its Priips regulation both hint at a less restrictive attitude. But can structured product providers take advantage? Vita Millers reports
Burden of regulation 'overloading' Nordic insurers
The quantity of regulation and pace of implementation means insurers risk misunderstanding new requirements, says Sampension chief executive, speaking at Insurance Risk Nordics