A technical flaw in the EU’s rules to prevent financial benchmark manipulation could impose a disproportionate burden on commodity price reporting agencies.

The Basel Committee wants to remove internal models from the calculation of banks’ operational risk capital, but needs to find a suitable replacement.

The fundamental review of the trading book is due for completion by the end of 2015, but impact studies have thrown up some alarming results.

End-users fear the European Banking Authority’s attempt to control shadow banking via bank exposure limits could backfire.

Proposed rules to impose a capital charge on interest rate risk on the banking book could make managing core lending much more complicated.

US and EU regulators have promised to keep working toward mutual recognition of each other’s derivative clearing houses, but there is an ideological gap to bridge.

The advent of swap execution facilities has not brought about the open access to trading that buy-side participants expected.

The Basel Committee’s fundamental review of the trading book is an immensely complicated task, and tight deadlines have the banks in a panic.