Italy
Credit portfolio manager of the year: Intesa Sanpaolo
Risk Awards 2022: Italy’s largest lender is one of the EU’s strongest thanks to smart securitisations
How Athora uses its ties to Apollo to boost returns
European life insurer boosts returns by sourcing loan assets directly from private equity firm
Euronext’s tech migration sprint alarms electronic traders
Co-location users sound warning on plan to chop two years off data centre move from UK to Italy
UniCredit cut RWAs the most of EU systemic banks in Q1
The €10.8 billion cull helped improve the Italian bank’s CET1 ratio 52bp
Securitisations lowered Intesa’s credit RWAs in Q4
Synthetic securitisation shaved €2.2 billion off of credit RWAs alone
Italian job: the real UK stock trading heist
Italy has not been seen as a candidate to pick up business from the UK – until now
All roads lead to Bergamo: Euronext eyes new home for its tech
Market participants fear a “horrible” relocation project and more room for latency arbitrage
State guarantees saved UniCredit €8bn in RWAs through 2020
Italian lender has €20.8 billion of government-backed loans on its books
Sovereign risk manager of the year: Italy’s Ministry of Economy and Finance
Risk Awards 2021: Italy’s CSA agreements allow it to issue in US dollars for the first time in almost 10 years
Intesa’s RWAs bloat on UBI merger
Credit risk-weighted assets increased 16% post-takeover
Almost G-Sibs: five banks near systemic designation
Chinese banks continue to grow systemic footprints
At UniCredit, XVAs amped trading gains in Q3
Italian bank claimed a €110 million benefit to earnings from valuation adjustments
Power surge: the value of investing in renewables
Energy market expert investigates ways to forecast future power prices and capture rates in order to value renewables PPAs
A bridge too far: EBA swap stay to spur mass repapering?
Industry scrambles to avoid duplicating BRRD close-out contract changes across four jurisdictions
CRR ‘quick fix’ pushes UniCredit’s RWAs lower
Italian bank nets €2.4 billion of RWA relief from regulatory changes
People moves: Eurex picks Peters as CEO, Citi appoints Italy duo as MSS co-heads, ORX reshuffles board, and more
Latest job changes across the industry
Generali’s solvency ratio savaged by Covid-19 turmoil
Italian sovereign exposures could force capital gauge even lower
Crédit Agricole, Natixis, UniCredit pummelled by XVA losses
Top banks take combined €207 million hit from valuation adjustments
Local banks’ CDSs chase Italy’s sovereign risk higher
MPS and Banco BPM creditworthiness lags Italy’s
As Covid snaps credit models, lenders turn to stress-testing
Banks enlist scenario analysis to bolster creaking default models
Top 10 op risks 2020: geopolitical risk
Nationalism, trade wars and epidemics make for a heady cocktail
Spanish, Italian big banks purged bad loans in 2019
Top lenders outclass their host banking systems on NPL ratios
UniCredit to liberate capital on Pillar 2 change
Bank targets 50% payout ratio
