Banks
False start: 13 EU banks miscalculate new GAR coverage metric
Unclear instructions, late guidance and poor font choices among reasons behind diverging interpretations from EBA’s template
Op risk hits all-time highs at three Nordic banks
Regular updates drive record rises at Handelsbanken, Nordea and SEB
One-tenth of US banks exceed CRE concentration thresholds
US supervisors face operational challenge with constellation of 536 lenders above risk benchmarks at end-2023
Northern Trust buys $2.4bn of US Treasuries as rate-cut prospects rise
Additions to the 5–10 year portion of AFS book have been, for now, swapped to SOFR
State Street loads up on short-term borrowing as rates spike
Funding rejig comes amid surge in deposits
AOCI worsens across the board at US banks in Q1
JP Morgan, Wells Fargo and Citi hit hardest in trend reversal
BofA, PNC lead Q1 rise in non-performing CRE loans
Commercial real estate write-offs also increased, driven by office loans
BNY Mellon dips below Collins floor after surge in standardised RWAs
All nine US banks using internal models now bound by regulator-set approach
HSBC, Intesa incorporate 2022–23 downturn into SVAR models
Turbulent past two years implied to be worse than GFC in stressed simulations
EBA’s correlated currencies shake-up raises EU banks’ charges
Capital requirements for FX risk double after EUR/USD and other 196 pairs deemed no longer in sync
First green asset ratios come in low as EU banks protest methodology
ABN Amro only bank to break double digits in a sample of 23 lenders
US banks’ non-core funding dependence ratio jumped in 2023
BHCs’ aggregate figure almost doubled to post-pandemic high last year
EU banks’ incremental risk charges soared in volatile H2
Charge for traded-bond default and downgrade risk hit 10-year high at BNP Paribas
Smaller US banks hold over half of CRE loans
Lenders under $50bn in assets reported record $1.7 trillion of exposures at end-2023
US systemic banks increase reliance on short-term funding in 2023
Contentious STWF metric weighs heavily on Morgan Stanley and Goldman G-Sib scores
US banks’ IRRBB transparency: one step forward, two steps back
A year on from the 2023 crisis, more lenders monitor EVE sensitivity, but full Basel-like disclosures remain the exception
Japanese banks’ leverage ratios keep rising as BoJ relief becomes permanent
Norinchukin reaps largest benefit on eve of Covid-19-era exemption being made permanent
CBA’s SFT exposures balloon 50% during H2 2023
Surge in repos and similar transactions puts lender only behind NAB among Aussie dealers
BofA, Citi, JPM slash $18trn of derivatives in latest window dressing effort
Systemic indicator reduction in Q4 keeps lid on trio’s capital surcharges
Six US G-Sibs face higher surcharges under Fed’s proposals
Goldman and BNY Mellon only top banks to escape increase, analysis shows
Goldman faces higher 3.5% G-Sib surcharge in 2026
50bp step up in capital add-on looms after dealer’s systemic footprint rose to a record high in 2023
Canada’s top dealers boost derivatives clearing as FRTB kicks in
BMO, RBC and TD Bank cleared record C$45.1 trillion in notionals in Q1
SVAR updates push Barclays’ modelled market charges up 9%
Trading portfolio regulatory risk gauge up 52% over the second half of 2023
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