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FX alternative risk premia as a key diversifier for equity bond portfolios
Siddharth Grover, head of QIS structuring at BBVA, discusses how the BBVA FX Risk Premia Indices can aid investors seeking diversification, and provides insight into potential trends moving forward
Breaking out of the cells: banks’ long goodbye to spreadsheets
Dealers are cutting back on Excel amid tighter regulation and risk concerns
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
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
EU banks’ incremental risk charges soared in volatile H2
Charge for traded-bond default and downgrade risk hit 10-year high at BNP Paribas
ECB raised Pillar 2 charges for just three CRE-heavy banks in latest SREP
Pfandbriefbank and Luminor saw largest increases across 106 banks subject to 2023 assessment
Tall order: why a unified op risk taxonomy is still elusive
Banks vary in how they classify operational risk losses – and regulators are in no rush to change the status quo
HSBC leads global uptick in OTC derivatives clearing
Systemic banks cleared record €250 trillion in notionals in 2022
PacWest leads banks on NII growth decline
Deutsche Bank bucks positive European trend while NatWest leads UK negative growth in Q3
Share of op risk modelling falls at European banks
Less than half of analysed dealers rely on the AMA, as introduction of new standardised approach looms large
Bankers call for overhaul of EBA stress tests
Support for multiple scenarios, but only if fixed assumptions and variables are scaled back
Rate of cleared OTC derivatives rises at European banks
Swedbank leads dealers in secular trend towards clearing space
European banks’ systemic indicators surged in 2022
Higher values for 10 of 14 systemic risk indicators could see capital surcharges increase later this year
Top EU banks’ OTC derivatives climbed 12% in 2022
All but two dealers report higher notional amounts, led by Crédit Agricole
IRC capital charges surge at Deutsche and Intesa
Risk-weighted assets covering default and downgrade of traded bonds all but double at Italian lender
Santander, Credit Suisse hit hardest by AOCI in Europe
Unrealised losses, mostly from exchange rate swings, shave huge chunks off CET1 capital
CaixaBank, UniCredit most exposed to rate increases in Europe
Banks report largest hits in IRRBB tests, but remain clear of fail threshold
ECB ratchets up Pillar 2 charges across top lenders
UniCredit, BNP Paribas, SEB and Swedbank worst-hit in latest SREP round
Handful of EU banks reap benefits from domestic exposure carve-out
BNP Paribas, ING Bank and UniCredit account for more than three-fourths of G-Sib score savings from favourable intra-EU risk calculation