In January 2016, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision published the standard Minimum capital requirements for market risk (access the BIS full text here). With the goal of promoting a consistent global implementation of this standard, which is to become the basis for Pillar 1 capital requirements in 2019, the Basel Committee periodically reviews frequently […]
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Global Risks Report 2017
The Global Risks Report 2017, from the World Economic Forum (WEF), features perspectives from nearly 750 experts on the perceived impact and likelihood of 30 prevalent global risks as well as 13 underlying trends that could amplify them or alter the interconnections between them over a 10-year timeframe. The WEF summarises that: 2016 saw a crystallization […]
Understanding Carbon Emission Risk when Allocating Assets
In 2013 I was invited to write about the closure of Chinese Harbin Airport due to poor air quality (in other words “smog”). This article became the second most read entry at globalairportcities.com blog for FY2013 and generated a lot of interesting discussion and positive feedback. Three years have passed, and besides the United Nation […]
INFOGRAPHIC: The Aftermath of the BREXIT Vote
Many experts predicted a BREXIT calamity if the UK voted to leave. Leave was the outcome and the question now posing is: were they right? Take a look at the last three months and the aftermath of the BREXIT vote. BREXIT “doom and gloom” appears to be mostly exaggerated (so far) For the first half of […]
Updated Rules for Markets in Financial Instruments: MiFID 2
Date: 30.06.2016 A Directive and a Regulation extending the application date of MiFID II and MiFIR by one year have been published in the Official Journal of the European Union. The date of application will be 3 January 2018. The transposition of MiFID II into national laws has also been extended to 3 July 2017. […]