Weekly Brief Nov 09 Paraguay repays Ueno depositors, UniCredit lifts capital ahead of Commerzbank deal Risk and Capital Weekly Brief: Paraguay reimbursed Ueno Bank depositors after its collapse, NAB’s credit impairment charges rose 86% and Macquarie f... 723
Weekly Brief Nov 06 Crédit Mutuel Arkéa reports $112.6 million cyber theft, Westpac halves AI migration costs Financial Technology Weekly: Crédit Mutuel Arkéa disclosed a EUR 100 million ($112.6 million) cyber theft involving compromised third-party access,... 1106
Weekly Brief Nov 03 Westpac doubles impairment charges, Santander absorbs acquisition capital hit Risk and Capital Weekly Brief: Westpac impairments doubled, Santander’s Webster deal cost 147 basis points of CET1 and euro-area funding access weak... 819
Weekly Brief Oct 30 FAB cuts trade-document processing times by over 70%, BBVA reports 28% developer productivity gain Financial Technology Weekly: Banks report AI gains in single processes, from trade documents to lending, while UK supervisors find post-deployment mon... 1143
Weekly Brief Oct 26 Sweden’s SEB pauses buybacks as Barclays plans further capital returns ahead of Basel 3.1 Risk and Capital Weekly Brief: Supervisory model changes cut SEB’s buffer by 120 basis points as lower Pillar 2A requirements cushion Barclays.... 1000
Weekly Brief Oct 23 Crédit Agricole expands AI agents, Santander reports lower model costs, Google Cloud outage hits banks Financial Technology Weekly: Crédit Agricole expands AI agents and Santander reports lower model costs, while a Google Cloud London outage exposes ba... 1732
Weekly Brief Oct 19 Basel revises systemic-risk reporting, India’s Yes Bank flags lower CET1 capital Risk and Capital Weekly Brief: Basel averages systemic bank indicators year-round; Yes Bank’s court ruling and Nordea’s ECB review weigh on bank c... 1184
Weekly Brief Oct 16 Citi links AI-assisted insourcing to lower technology vendor costs, HKMA explores accountability for AI agents Financial Technology Weekly: Citi reported a 30% reduction in technology vendor spending as AI supported more work in-house, while HKMA explored accou... 1860
Weekly Brief Oct 13 IMF warns hedge fund leverage could amplify market stress Risk and Capital Weekly Brief: IMF puts hedge fund exposures at $40 trillion as Basel implementation gaps and India’s reserve rules test banks.... 1818
Weekly Brief Oct 05 Federal Reserve adopts stress-test changes to reduce volatility in bank capital requirements Risk and Capital Weekly Brief: Fed finalises stress-test changes to smooth capital requirements, New Zealand rules take effect and the Basel Committee... 2671
Weekly Brief Oct 02 Barclays expands Anthropic’s Claude Code to support software development and legacy modernisation Financial Technology Weekly: Barclays expands Claude Code to modernise legacy systems, HSBC opens authorised banking data to clients' AI tools, Master... 3346
Weekly Brief Sep 28 Swiss upper house backs proposal UBS says would add $16 billion to its parent-bank CET1 requirement Risk and Capital Weekly Brief: Swiss lawmakers advance a $16 billion CET1 hit for UBS, as Fed proposes capital rules for stablecoin issuers.... 1522
Weekly Brief Sep 25 BNP Paribas adds Google Cloud AI while retaining limits on public cloud data Financial Technology Weekly: BNP Paribas and Société Générale push AI deeper into banking operations, as regulators and industry bodies race to de... 2071
Weekly Brief Sep 21 Federal Reserve review finds delayed supervisory action before Silicon Valley Bank failure Risk and Capital Weekly Brief: A Fed review found supervisors knew of SVB's flaws by 2022 but failed to act, as ECB problem loans rose. Australian liq... 1142
Weekly Brief Sep 18 Banks move AI into core systems as payments infrastructure turns real-time and cloud-native Financial Technology Weekly: Sony Bank and Fujitsu apply GenAI to core banking, FIS wins mandates across new US banks, Partior and LSEG develop 24/7 c... 2470
Weekly Brief Sep 14 EU limits impact of Basel trading rules on bank capital through 2029 Risk and Capital Weekly Brief: EU delays FRTB capital impacts through 2029, Canada cuts SME risk weights, Singapore proposes loss-absorbing capacity r... 2013
