Risk management

While Silvergate said this month it has "a resilient balance sheet and ample liquidity," and analysts call its financials sound, the bank is today contending with a question as difficult as the one that led it to crypto in the first place: whether the experiment was worth it.

The acting comptroller of the currency said new CECL standards will help banks weather current economic uncertainty. He also touted the benefits of diversity in risk management.

Publicly traded companies exposed to the "crypto winter" and the collapse of FTX or other digital-asset companies might have to disclose those details to investors under new guidance from the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Canada's banking regulator increased a key capital requirement for large banks — and raised the potential range of the measure — giving it more power to protect the country's financial system from elevated risks.

A former Federal Reserve official argues that current rules allow banks to begin trading in crypto assets with virtually no oversight.

Investment bankers working on mergers and acquisitions need to review their due diligence processes to ensure deals aren't upended by an evolving set of ESG risks, according to Berkeley Research Group.

Institutions outside the U.S. are holding an estimated $65 trillion in "missing" dollar debt off their balance sheets through currency derivatives, making it harder for global policymakers to anticipate the next financial crisis.

The baseline scenario used by many banks is for low-single-digit growth in GDP and an unemployment rate of around 4% next year. Some Wall Street analysts are wondering whether those assumptions, which banks use to calculate their loan-loss reserves, are too rosy.

Advisors overseeing the group's ruins have more broadly pointed to a potential commingling of digital assets, raising concerns about misuse of customer funds and making ties between the two firms a likely focus for regulators and investigators probing the collapse.

Moves by cryptocurrency exchanges to reassure markets about their stability are having little effect on jittery users, who keep pulling funds from the venues.