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Banks rethink funding and hedging as volatility reshapes markets
European banking executives warn that persistent geopolitical shocks, volatile markets, and shifting investor sentiment are transforming funding strategies and risk management. Institutions are adapting balance sheet management, pricing models, and hedging approaches as volatility reshapes bond issuance, liquidity planning, and interest rate risk decisions across the eurozone banking sector.
Mar 05, 2026
Center for Financial Professionals ,
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Operational and Non Financial Risk
ALM, Treasury and Liquidity Risk
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- Banks increasingly
treating market instability as a permanent operating environment
- War in Ukraine
disrupted debt issuance and investor appetite across European bond markets
- Liquidity remained
stable for some banks despite geopolitical proximity to the conflict
- Investor trust and
strong relationships becoming critical for successful bond issuance
- Sovereign spread
widening feeding directly into internal liquidity cost curves and asset
pricing
- Deposit structure
shaping how banks manage balance sheet funding pressures
- Risk leaders
rethinking hedging strategies to balance net interest income and balance
sheet value
- Pricing models and
data quality increasingly central to understanding complex market risk
exposures
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