Capital buffer
Nordic, UK banks have highest countercyclical buffers
Nordea, Lloyds and RBS had the largest add-ons of banks surveyed
HSBC's systemic risk indicator amounts grow
UK lender is just 20bp short of 2.5% capital surcharge bucket
Deutsche predicts lower G-Sib charge
German lender expects to fall into 1.5% surcharge bucket by 2022
US G-Sibs build capital even as shareholder windfalls surge
The eight large US banks return more than $30 billion to equity holders
UK banks triple AT1 capital in four years
Total outstanding amounts of AT1 stood at £42 billion at end-2018
Planned US capital buffer endangers shareholder payouts
CCAR-based stress capital buffer would hit healthiest banks harder than weaker rivals
Goldman, Wells Fargo grew hard-to-value assets in 2018
In contrast, the other six US G-Sibs slashed $4.4 billion of Level 3 assets on aggregate
Illiquid trading assets drop at big US banks in Q4 2018
Non-HQLA securities fell $146 billion in aggregate
US banks slashed G-Sib scores in Q4 2018
Big cuts to derivatives and trading securities push systemic risk scores lower
Groupe BPCE fortifies TLAC buffer
French bank posts TLAC ratio of 22.5%, up from 20.08% in 2017
Luxembourg is latest EU state to hike countercyclical buffer
In total, EU states hiked CCyB rates 13 times last year, up from six in 2017
Dinged by RWAs, SocGen capital ratio misses target
Bank accelerates asset sales plan to reach 2020 CET1 goal
Metro Bank execs under scrutiny after loan probe snafu
Lender could see capital buffer rise after admitting regulator, not bank, discovered errors
Unmoved, Fed stands by G-Sib surcharge
Facing down frenetic lobbying and even US Treasury, central bank doesn’t blink on surcharge
Capital changes, Ion and post-Libor vagueness
The week on Risk.net, January 5–11, 2019
No bank would benefit from planned eurozone G-Sib waiver
Neither Deutsche nor BNP Paribas would move to a lower capital buffer, based on end-2017 data
Nordic banks shoulder weightiest capital buffers in EU
DNB Bank has 9.10% combined buffer, the largest of stress-tested banks
Two stress tests give conflicting verdicts on UK banks
Under the BoE’s severe stress scenario, the average drop to UK banks’ CET1 capital ratios was 740bp, compared with 570bp under the EBA’s adverse scenario
EU countries accelerate countercyclical buffer increases
Eleven EU members currently apply CCyBs, with Bulgaria the most recent country to join the club
What’s Finnish for ‘too big to fail’?
Strange case of Nordea highlights flaw in G-Sib assessments
Cross-border risks drive European G-Sib scores
Basel method shows cross-jurisdictional activity makes up 30.8% of banks’ total G-Sib scores
Barclays and Lloyds improve resilience to stress tests, HSBC falls back
Capital headroom above pass/fail thresholds increases to 250bp at lenders
Custody banks add $1.2trn assets, BNY Mellon overtakes State Street
The combined total hit $93 trillion at end-September
JP Morgan on brink of 4% G-Sib surcharge
US bank will have to cull balance sheet by year-end