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In DFAST, banks clear 4.5% minimum but breach all-in buffers
Forty-three percent of participants would have seen capital plans rejected under pre-2020 CCAR regime, up from 30% last year
Unrealised losses down but not out in latest DFAST
Bank of America would emerge from Fed’s scenario with $22 billion net AOCI gain
Meet the sharks, stroke the rays in hidden OTC ecosystem
Dealer Rankings 2023: Analysis of millions of trades reveals big fish – and small ones – in 10 derivatives instruments
In age of constraints, top dealers pick their battles
Dealer Rankings 2023: Three US banks are consistently top 10; none are consistently top five
MassMutual maintains lead in IR swaps market for life insurers
Counterparty Radar: Bank of America heads dealer rankings as sector’s notional drops 1%
Fidelity FX forwards trades propel BofA to top dealer spot
Counterparty Radar: Bank of America leads dealer rankings in Q1 for the first time
Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan lead Risk’s first Dealer Rankings
Dealer Rankings 2023: Analysis of more than 1,000 cuts of Counterparty Radar data offers rare glimpse of sell-side pecking order
Goldman on course for 3.5% G-Sib surcharge
Bank faces 50bp of extra capital add-on from 2025 in the absence of risk score reduction by year-end
CDS auction-rigging lawsuit set to proceed
US judge clears way for case in which pension funds allege dealers manipulated CDS settlements
Risk managers warn of emerging geopolitical crisis in Asia
Risk Live: Rising political tension between China and Taiwan has bank risk management teams on high alert
US arms of Credit Suisse, SMBC stumble on VAR
Breaches of trading forecasts in Q1 result in higher value-at-risk multipliers for the duo
Big US banks boost cash holdings by nearly 8% in Q1
Dash for cash props up HQLAs as AFS securities drop to six-year low
D-day for the rates market: solving the outstanding issues in US Libor transition
The next months will determine how rates markets cope with the death of Libor. With transition efforts approaching D-day, experts discuss the issues facing the market, the progress made so far and the outstanding issues facing the ‘new look’ rates market…
Allianz Life halves index CDS book in Q4
Counterparty Radar: Move by US market behemoth pushes life insurers’ notional down by almost 40%
Client margin for swaps hit all-time high in March
Wells Fargo, Goldman and BNP Paribas reach record figures, but overall trend driven by five big dealers
At US banks, share of HTM securities ticks up in Q1
Despite liquidity squeeze, regional banks increased proportion to a six-year high
State Street triples repo book to become top US fund dealer
Counterparty Radar: Pimco trades boost Boston bank as sector volumes hold steady in Q4
US banks report negative NII growth amid rising rates
Goldman, KeyCorp and Charles Schwab worst hit in Q1 as funding costs sap income growth
BofA slashed AFS Treasuries holdings by 36% in Q1
Partial sale of securities portfolio crystallises $200 million of paper losses
People: UBS rehires Ermotti for top job, Citi promotes Selva to COO, and more
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As rates rose, KeyBank unwound 94% of pay-fixed swaps
Sale of AFS hedges left book exposed throughout late 2022, much as at ill-fated SVB
BofA claims top swaptions dealer spot for US life insurers
Counterparty Radar: Sector-wide exposures grew 35% in Q4 2022 on the back of large MetLife trades
US life insurers’ IR swaps usage hits $1.2trn in Q4 2022
Counterparty Radar: MassMutual is largest user of the instrument, finds our new analysis of industry filings
US banks vulnerable to losses if HTM securities need to be sold
Overall mark-to-market value $300bn lower than amortised cost across 30 banks