Loans
Risk management on course to move beyond cost centre
Video Q&A: Neil Dodgson, IBM Watson Financial Services
UniCredit sheds €10.5 billion in toxic loans
Net write-downs on all loans fell to €496 million in the quarter, down from €835 million in December, an improvement of 40%, as a result of improved asset quality
Credit data: firms with fewer well-paid women are riskier
Gender pay gap disclosures could be a proxy for credit risk, writes David Carruthers of Credit Benchmark
ANZ credit recoveries boost earnings
Loss rate drops 10 basis points year-on-year
BBVA gets capital relief through synthetic securitisation
Second deal with European Investment Bank frees up balance sheet for lending
Libor death threatens to blow hole in hedges
Isda AGM: BlackRock, Fed stress need for fallbacks to marry up across rates universe
Loans to offshore centres surge
Total claims surpass pre-crisis peak
Bank of Japan cautions on low loan-loss reserves
Lenders vulnerable to reverse in benign economic conditions
IFRS 9 charge fails to dent UBS capital
The accounting charge was more that offset by increased earnings, with total CET1 capital increasing by Sfr 0.5 billion
Morgan Stanley expands long-term debt issuance
Outstanding long-term debt jumps 12% year-on-year
Credit data: UK retail sector’s woes continue
High street fails to get over Christmas slump; elsewhere, global PDs remain in flux, writes David Carruthers of Credit Benchmark
Credit data: a tough year for South African financials
Default risk rose steadily for 36 firms during Zuma’s final months of rule, writes Credit Benchmark’s David Carruthers
Chinese megabanks set to lose out in switch to SMA
Bank of China, ICBC likely to see lower reductions in operational risk capital due to reliance on interest income
Soaring Fed Home Loan Bank borrowings spark systemic risk fears
Parallels drawn with Fannie and Freddie as commercial bank borrowing from FHLBs nears $500bn
Fed’s Powell on Libor reform, repo and clearing
Risk30: Market doesn’t need to “clear all US dollars in US and all euros in eurozone” says next Fed chair