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Part B covered how internal risk transfer of credit and equity risk move from the banking book to the trading

Part A of this mini-series established the basics: an internal risk transfer is just an internal record of moving risk,

In the last article, we mapped the boundary between the trading book and the banking book — which instruments belong

In our first article, we saw that a porous boundary between the trading book and the banking book was one

Every bank that trades bonds, equities, currencies, commodities, or derivatives has to answer one uncomfortable question every single day: how

Background: how Britain arrived at its seventh Prime Minister in a decade To understand what Andy Burnham inherits today, you

Background: the stage, the format, and what was at stake The 2026 FIFA World Cup was always going to be

Quick Recap: One Method Down, Two To Go The previous article in this series covered the Parametric (Variance-Covariance) method —

Quick Recap: What VaR Measures In the first article of this series, we defined Value at Risk (VaR) as a

Background: Venezuela before the disaster — a pre-existing crisis To understand why these earthquakes are so catastrophic, you must first