Articles by Joshua Walker
LME had four-hour operational failure in Q4
First outage on record caused by connectivity issue at LMEmercury
NSCC issued record $45bn cash call in Q4
Worst-case scenario estimate up 22% from previous quarter
People: Citi snags Raghavan, SocGen bags Estrada, all change at NYCB, and more
Latest job changes across the industry
SVAR updates push Barclays’ modelled market charges up 9%
Trading portfolio regulatory risk gauge up 52% over the second half of 2023
Euro area funds’ debt securities surged 13% in 2023
Investments vis-a-vis euro area issuers rebound after 2022 slump, driven by bond funds
Canadian banks’ market RWAs spike on FRTB switch
CIBC, TD Bank and Scotia saw end-January charges jump amid overall ditching of internal models at Canada’s big five
Higher revenue pushes HSBC’s op risk up 14%
Increased net interest income over 2023 major driver behind six-year high figure
ECB raised Pillar 2 charges for just three CRE-heavy banks in latest SREP
Pfandbriefbank and Luminor saw largest increases across 106 banks subject to 2023 assessment
Capital One’s credit exposure riskiness set to rise post-merger
Discover acquisition would push share of assets with 100% risk-weight to six-year high, pro forma analysis shows
Interbank lending plummets at major European banks
Reduced repo operations and TLTRO repayments among drivers
Capital One’s purchase of Discover would triple its Treasury holdings
Record UST boost would propel combined company past six US lenders
IM requirements for interest rate swaps up $30bn in December
Latest figures from CME, Eurex and LCH show a trend reversal from previous six months
Nordea writes off €130m of intangibles after accounting change
Fourth quarter impairment charges fourteen times larger than year prior
Shinhan, Kookmin set aside record reserves amid real estate worries
Kookmin provisions account for 38% of income; 23% for Shinhan
ING’s op risk jumps 10% on model updates
Other European AMA users report moderate hikes
UBS predicts RWA cuts hampered by Basel III, model updates
Planned wind-down of unwanted Credit Suisse assets to be offset by $25 billion in add-ons
Latest FDIC special assessment tougher than 2009 version
Most US banks face higher toll under new methodology
SEB, Swedbank see record negative OCI
Lower discount rate linked to pension obligations triggers aggregate unrealised losses of Skr5.5 billion in Q4
Discover and Synchrony net charge-offs keep climbing higher
Bad loan write-offs projected to rise further in 2024 as credit quality deteriorates
US banks rejig securities to cut mark-to-market losses
Fifth Third leads charge with $12.6bn transfer from AFS to HTM pen
US Bancorp adds on $8bn in long-term debt
Interest expense from LTD rises to $569 million in Q4
IM surges at LCH following CDS users’ shift from ICEU
Figures for Q3 show 16% jump at Paris-based CDSClear
At Canada’s big five, impairments keep creeping up
BMO leads the group with bad loans up 39% quarter on quarter
Clearing members sour further on cash for IM collateral
Sovereign bonds remain preferred choice at top CCPs in Q3