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UK banks eye Pillar 2 savings after PRA intervention
Top lenders could free £4.4 billion of capital
People moves: Brevan Howard risk head moves to Coremont unit, Pimco PMs, and more
Latest job changes across the industry
Asia moves: Ex-Vanguard Asia chief joins CLSA, Man Group names equities head, and more
Latest job news across the industry
Covid-19 – Developing resiliency to ensure business continuity
Covid-19 has forced firms worldwide to question how they plan for, build and maintain resiliency to ensure business continuity. With operational and cyber risk departments now firmly concentrating on pandemic action plans and emerging risks, this webinar…
New securitisation rules weigh on UK banks
HSBC sees capital charge increase 41% quarter-on-quarter
UK banks put £7.6bn aside for credit losses in Q1
Impairment charges were roughly double aggregate net profits at top lenders
Ion rival TransFICC gets cash boost
HSBC, ING join £5.75m investment round, amid claims of shrinking tech choice
XVAs take $346m bite out of HSBC’s trading profits
Derivatives valuation adjustment impact pushes trading profits down 49%
People moves: Citi Europe CRO to head crisis management; HSBC Global Asset Management hires strategy head; and more
Latest job changes across the industry
Fed’s leverage ratio relief puts foreign banks on the back foot
European banks cannot – yet – exempt US Treasuries from their exposure measures
PRA relief to save banks up to 33% on VAR-based charges
HSBC may benefit most from easing of capital rules
Dividend freeze could save top UK banks £6.5bn
HSBC will no longer distribute a cash dividend worth $3.1bn
UK banks’ RWAs plummeted in Q4 2019
Risk drop-off helped raise aggregate CET1 ratio
UK bank ECL scenarios may lowball coronavirus impact
BoE offers IFRS 9 relief on virus-hit loans
Countercyclical buffer relief to save top UK banks £7bn in capital
BoE expects £190 billion of lending to be supported by CCyB cut
LCRs of UK banks diverged in 2019
StanChart’s dropped 14 percentage points last year
Apac CCPs: we’ve come a long, long way together
Members still gripe about arcane policies, but risk management fundamentals are strong
Barclays used securitisations as credit risk shield in 2019
Risk-weighted assets for these exposures increased 44%
StanChart’s derivatives exposures climb 42% in 2019
UK bank’s leverage ratio falls 30 basis points year-on-year
Treasurers turn to AI in bid for sharper forecasting
Wider automation could usher in future of ‘hands-free hedging’, but obstacles lurk in data standards and sharing
UK bank market RWAs ebbed in 2019
HSBC shed $5.9 billion of market RWAs in 2019
Who killed FX volatility?
Beyond central bank policy, traders see a range of hidden structural factors at work
‘Rounding errors’ prompt EBRD to break with Sonia FRN norms
Index-friendly coupon structure touted as a template for future issuance in the UK market
HSBC to reallocate $100bn of RWAs in shake-up
Global banking and markets division to take brunt of cuts