Articles by Alessandro Aimone
TD Bank closes on TLAC target
Lender sold four bail-in bonds last quarter, boosting its TLAC ratio to 18.9%
US G-Sibs grow and multiply ties with other banks
Big eight banks grow by 1.5% in aggregate in Q2
Scotiabank eyes capital savings following divestments
Wind down of overseas investments expected to increase CET1 capital ratio by 50bp
Six US banks grow systemic footprints
BAML and Citi climb into higher G-Sib surcharge buckets
UK leverage ratios edge lower as regulatory minimums climb
Additional leverage buffers raise minimum required ratios well above 3.25% floor
At CIBC, commodity, forex and rate risks raise VAR 12%
Market risk capital requirement jumps to C$695 million on value-at-risk surge
Cleared swaps surge $6.6trn at US G-Sibs in Q2
Cleared swaps accounted for 54% of G-Sib notionals in Q2
At US G-Sibs, swap payments make up $178bn of LCR outflows
All bar one G-Sib see net derivatives cash outflows increase year-on-year
MREL target drifts further out of Rabobank’s reach
Dutch bank has current MREL ratio of 27.8%, compared with target of 28.58%
Liquidity coverage at US G-Sibs worsens in Q2
HQLA rose $18bn while projected net cash outflows jumped $29bn
State Street, Goldman push VAR limits the most
Average of largest trading losses-to-VAR at State Street above 90% over past 12 months
State Street, UBS and TD Group incur VAR breaches
Backtesting exceptions cause TD Group's and State Street's market risk capital charge multipliers to climb
At US G-Sibs, market RWAs fall $18bn in Q2
Fall in VAR-based measures of risk behind the decrease
EU banks increase systemic footprint
Values used for seven of 12 systemic risk indicators climb year-on-year
UK banks added OTC notionals in 2018 as EU peers cut back
Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds, Standard Chartered increased notionals by almost €15 trillion
Big EU banks’ Level 3 assets up 25% in 2018
Hard-to-value assets rise €35 billion year-on-year
US G-Sibs’ TLAC buffers vary
Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs have eligible TLAC equal to 50.8% and 44.7% of RWAs, respectively
Citi’s swaps clearing unit boosts client margin by $2bn
The largest FCM accounts for 27.1% of all required client margin
Commerz pays €277 million in bank levies in H1
Payment to European Single Resolution Fund up €17 million year-on-year
Goldman’s op RWAs fall 8% in Q2
Removal of op risk events from AMA model dataset reduced capital requirement
‘Regulatory headwinds’ add €13bn to UniCredit’s RWAs
Frontloading of credit risk model guidelines saps CET1 ratio by 40bp
ABN Amro cuts op RWAs by €1bn
Model updates lower AMA-calculated portion of op risk capital
JP Morgan model updates shave $6.8bn off market RWAs in Q2
Year-on-year, model updates take net $21.1 billion off its RWA total
Holdco issuances spur Barclays’ MREL progress
UK bank issues £7.1 billion of MREL debt in first half of 2019