JP Morgan
US life insurer index options market hits $1trn mark
Counterparty Radar: Lincoln Financial emerges as top player in Q4 with $43 billion portfolio increase
JP Morgan heading for highest ever share of US deposits
Acquisition of First Republic helps bolster bank’s status as nation’s biggest deposit-holder
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
UBS found no advantage in quantum computing – ex data chief
Swiss bank tested various use cases in the trading business before giving up on the technology
Op risk data: Frank fiasco costs JP Morgan $175m
Also: Internal fraud burns fewer fingers, but flame is far from out. Data by ORX News
At US banks, share of HTM securities ticks up in Q1
Despite liquidity squeeze, regional banks increased proportion to a six-year high
Citi becomes top single-name CDS dealer for US life insurers
Counterparty Radar: New York bank bests Barclays as sector contracts by $340 million at the end of 2022
JP Morgan on course to escape Collins floor
Gap between standardised and modelled RWAs at its smallest since 2016
How MerQube sold Wall Street on open indexing relationships
Four-year-old Silicon Valley firm sees growing role for third parties as indexes become more complex
US MMFs’ holdings hit record as deposits flee banks
Funds run by JP Morgan, Fidelity and Goldman behind half of new investments in March
Why NDF execution algos might still hit the spot
Products have yet to live up to initial hype, but their long-term potential for investors remains significant
Synchrony and Discover lead US banks on rising net charge-offs
Executives expect trend to continue as credit normalisation proceeds apace
US banks report negative NII growth amid rising rates
Goldman, KeyCorp and Charles Schwab worst hit in Q1 as funding costs sap income growth
Legacy legal costs could stretch state support for UBS
Downside protection of Sfr9 billion must cover numerous outstanding claims against Credit Suisse
Capital Group, BMR double down on bought index CDSs
Counterparty Radar: Market for US mutual funds contracts in Q4 for the first time in eight quarters
Token effort is no blockchain boon for illiquid assets
Cash-like tokenised instruments find takers; initiatives based on less liquid assets struggle to take off
US banks seize chance to transfer securities from HTM to AFS
Wells Fargo, JP Morgan and Citi reclassify $34bn following new hedge accounting treatment
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
First CAD, yen inflation swaps appear in mutual fund filings
Counterparty Radar: Western Asset slashed inflation bets in Q4 as Empower probes new frontiers
Zero-day options and the shadow of the apocalypse
For some, 0DTEs could spell doom in adverse market conditions; others dismiss such talk as dramatics
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 banks vulnerable to losses if HTM securities need to be sold
Overall mark-to-market value $300bn lower than amortised cost across 30 banks
JP Morgan is testing quantum deep hedging
Researchers say timeline has shortened for use of models in production