Banks try to prepare for – not predict – geopolitical shocks

Banks are responding to the challenge posed by fast-moving, unpredictable geopolitical shocks by not predicting them.

The goal at KeyBank – the $186 billion-asset US regional lender – is to inoculate the banking book, so it doesn’t matter what path interest rates take.

“I want to be in a position that I don’t care,” said Peter Cai, chief market and treasury risk officer at KeyBank.

At HSBC’s trading

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