Spain
Crédit Agricole headed for 1.5% G-Sib surcharge in 2026
French bank’s surging G-Sib score puts it past Deutsche in latest systemic risk assessment
Falling T2 balances bode well for eurozone’s stability
Impact of fragmentation would be less severe today than in 2010s, says Marcello Minenna
BME in talks with global banks over euro swaps clearing
SIX Group's Spanish CCP wants to establish itself as an alternative venue for onshore clearing by 2025
Santander, Credit Suisse hit hardest by AOCI in Europe
Unrealised losses, mostly from exchange rate swings, shave huge chunks off CET1 capital
FSB: third of climate stress tests not tackling physical risk
Six jurisdictions conducted exercises only for transition risk
Cross-border risk dominates 2022 G-Sib scores
Overseas lending and borrowing largest contributor to scores of banks in Canada, EU, Japan, Singapore, Switzerland and UK
Some euro banks modelled lower mortgage risk in H1
Italian and Belgian lenders reported steepest drops in risk density despite recessionary threat
Germany tells EU to PFOF
Proposed ban might need to be dropped to prove practice is harmful
Spanish regional bank’s CVA charge up 30-fold on SA-CCR
Banco de Crédito Cooperativo saw end-June charges balloon the most year-on-year across a sample of 120 European banks
SMFG reports highest power sector emissions intensity
Across all systemic banks, only eight dealers disclose their GHG emissions for this field
Santander’s VAR surges 17% in Q3
Macroeconomic jitters push credit spread and interest rate risk up, but bank’s traders net income windfall
Santander’s CVA charge jumps 94% in Q2
Among the other EU systemic banks, higher capital requirements also at SocGen, ING, Crédit Agricole and UniCredit
Post-merger, Caixa’s credit RWAs jump 47%
In RWA terms, the newly created entity is now bigger than Commerzbank and Rabobank
Santander added to its pile of shaky loans in Q1
‘Stage two’ assets made up 7% of its total at end-March
Risk density of Santander’s securitisation book hits five-year high
Synthetic securitisations helped cap credit RWAs last year
Expected European loan losses push up Santander’s Q4 credit reserves
Full-year LLP came to €12.2 billion, contributing to an overall loss in 2020
Enhanced scrutiny of Covid loans at CaixaBank leads to €321m charge
Stock of ‘stage two’ loans increased 48%
BBVA capital buffer will swell to 600bp on sale of US unit
Spanish lender targets 11.5-12% CET1 ratio
At Santander, Covid relief for €75bn of loans expired through Q3
Sixteen per cent of loans coming out of payment holidays have experienced a fall in creditworthiness
Coronavirus crisis sours €8bn of Santander’s loans
Loans moved into IFRS 9 stage two to reflect significant increase in credit risks
BBVA trims capital target following ECB relief measures
Spanish lender targets 225-275bp CET1 management buffer