Risk management

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.

While many of the details around FTX's remarkable collapse will only be revealed as it progresses through bankruptcy, interviews with FIA conferencegoers this week show they're facing a reckoning of their own.

After a Texas bank settled allegations by the Department of Justice, experts were split about the extent of the exposure for banks and fintechs that took part in the pandemic-era program.

In hindsight, Sam Bankman-Fried's April interview with Bloomberg's "Odd Lots" podcast was a harbinger of his epic collapse last week. He described a "box" that has value only because other people put money in it, and, when confronted with the idea that he described a Ponzi scheme, admitted there was a "depressing amount of validity" to that.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said the implosion of Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX crypto empire reinforced her view that the market for digital assets required "very careful regulation."

Wall Street is walking into a new era of risk that has bankers, lawyers and climate campaigners reaching for a different playbook.

Thieves have increasingly used solid explosive to blow open cash machines rather than gas.