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China’s regional banks’ close ties with property sector seen as a 'time bomb'
Links between China’s shadow banking and real estate sectors are stoking fears
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Italian banks get free pass to evade windfall tax
Lenders will have ample opportunity to pay substantially less than initially proposed
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October 2, 2023
How the BIS overstates the risk of FX swaps
Analysis shows that the growth in forex contracts is concentrated in a handful of US banks.
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September 28, 2023
EU supervisors and banking experts at odds on financial stability risks
The EU’s leading supervisors are warning that the bloc’s stumbling economy could threaten financial stability. But banking experts have hit...
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September 26, 2023
Editor's letter: Are you down with new nature risk disclosures?
UK prime minister Rishi Sunak’s U-turn on the country’s key targets to tackle climate change is alarming both environmentalists and...
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September 25, 2023
Capital buffers are vital, to a point
Despite a limited ability of regulatory capital buffers to prevent future banking failure, US regulators are proposing to increase capital...
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September 21, 2023
We’ve got it wrong on windfall taxes
Windfall taxes disguise a deeper systemic issue. It’s time for central banks to stop paying banks billions of taxpayers’ money...
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September 19, 2023
Editor's letter: Will Korea’s bank revamp whip up risky lending?
Our correspondent in south-east Asia, Natasha Teja, brings you details of the biggest banking overhaul in 30 years in South Korea,...
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September 18, 2023
Metro’s dearth of data leaves PRA unimpressed
Founded in 2010 as a ‘challenger bank’ to compete against the UK’s high street giants, Metro Bank has a challenge...
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September 8, 2023
Editor's letter: Your weekly news round-up
For some bankers, the week can’t end soon enough. Plans by US regulators to impose long-term debt obligations on large financial...
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September 7, 2023
Living wills proposals met with dismay by large US banks
Plans by US regulators to impose “harmful” long-term debt obligations on large banks have come under attack from industry bodies....
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