Citi
Client margin up 40% at Morgan Stanley’s swaps unit in Q1
Aggregate US FCM margin up a huge $34.8 billion quarter-on-quarter
Sold CDS notionals climbed 16% at top US banks in Q1
Net fair value of credit protection positions vaults to $5.3 billion
How XVAs shaped top US dealers’ trading revenues in Q1
Citi disclosed a -$835 million CVA impact on revenues
Mark-to-model assets surge at top US banks in Q1
Level 3 instruments hit an aggregate $137 billion among banks over $100 billion in size
CVA capital charges jumped 50% at systemic US banks in Q1
Goldman Sachs’ charge climbs 76% quarter-on-quarter
Interest rate swaps powered Q1 derivatives boom at top US banks
Rate derivatives notionals increase 22% quarter-on-quarter
Cash flood expanded systemic footprint of top US banks
Intra-system liabilities up 26% in Q1
Corporate loan default risk spiked at US G-Sibs in Q1
Median probability of default increases 17bp to 1.39% on the quarter
Systemic riskiness of top US banks increased in Q1
JP Morgan’s systemic risk score increased enough to attract a 4% capital surcharge
Risk density of top US banks edged down in Q1
Banks piled up assets with low risk-weightings in the first quarter
At systemic US banks, CLO holdings dip
Wells Fargo sees 15% sliced off the value of its portfolio
Count them in? Big US banks mull PCAF carbon standard
BofA, Citi and Wells Fargo looking to adopt emissions standard popular with EU lenders
Non-operational deposits flooded US G-Sibs in Q1
JP Morgan also sees a big jump in its maturity mismatch add-on
Citi’s counterparty credit risk charge up 38% in Q1
Probability of default of portfolio increases to 0.73% from 0.68%
Covid tumult pushed VAR capital charges up 72% at US G-Sibs
JP Morgan’s charge increases 148% quarter-on-quarter
US bank liquidity ratios eroded in Q1
Net cash outflows and HQLA spike to record levels
Swaps books of top US dealers bulged in Q1
Citi increased derivatives exposures by $25.5 billion quarter-on-quarter
Though Covid crisis rages, US banks’ op RWAs fall
Wells Fargo sees op RWAs fall $2.9 billion
Inside March madness with Citi’s Tuchman
Interview: Trading rooms went virtual, central banks stepped up – but some platforms flopped
JP Morgan had sharpest trading edge of top dealers in Q1
G-Sibs racked up 295 profit-making days in first quarter
Systemic US banks incurred 42 VAR breaches in Q1
Leading dealers saw actual losses over four times greater than their VAR estimates on some days
CSDR buy-ins – next on the regulatory chopping block?
A big jump in trade fails is adding to doubts about the EU’s settlement discipline regime
Credit models at odds with standardised approach on Covid
Increase to advanced approaches RWAs far outpaces growth to standardised
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