United States
BlackRock, Pimco slash mutual fund swaptions books
Counterparty Radar: US retail funds retreat from trade as Morgan Stanley becomes top dealer in Q2
PacWest leads banks on NII growth decline
Deutsche Bank bucks positive European trend while NatWest leads UK negative growth in Q3
All-to-all no panacea for Treasury liquidity
Traders fear push for equity-style market could be detrimental to off-the-run securities
BofA’s VAR reels back to pre-pandemic level
Dealer leads large US banks on curtailing market risk
BNP Paribas is biggest fish in shrinking repo pond
Counterparty Radar: US retail funds cut their repo exposure in Q2 to the lowest level since 2020
Buy side frets over cost of compulsory repo clearing
As US regulators prepare to mandate clearing, cost of compliance remains a mystery to many
UK to permanently recognise US CCPs
Regulators also launching review on long-term status of UK pension fund clearing exemption
Western Alliance cuts repos, increases reliance on warehouse borrowing
Drawdown from expanded revolving line helps cut $2bn of costly overnight funding
Fed spares US Bancorp tighter liquidity straitjacket
Having committed to category II standards by end-2024, bank risked incurring LCR shortfall
Opra outages cause consternation in options markets
UBS warned clients they were looking at “bad data” on options screens
SEC contradicts itself on exchange pricing, say firms
Cboe warns ban on volume-based rebates will not improve pricing for investors
Discover, Capital One credit card delinquencies surpass pre-pandemic levels
Seven credit card lenders see delinquency rates accelerate after slowing in Q2
Filling the gaps in Basel’s interest rate risk measures
Reverse stress-testing or VAR may work better than existing outlier tests, but are hard to manage
Adjusted for AOCI, ratios at five regional banks fall short
Impact of reinclusion on CET1 capital ratio would trip up Truist, Ally and others
Northern Trust rejigs funding as deposit costs rise
Net interest income drops 10.5%, cash at central banks falls by a quarter
Investors cheer Fed guidance on bank credit risk transfers
Institutions say clarification of regulations could jump-start US market
Ally says only a third of long-term debt qualifies for Fed bail-in rule
Bank holding company would face shortfall of $3.5 billion of debt under new standards
PacWest’s loans jitter, deposits dwindle in race towards merger
Merging partner Banc of California also sees deposit base slip further
US life insurers’ interest rate swaps usage surged in Q2
Counterparty Radar: John Hancock, Principal Financial expanded books by more than half
Can CCPs provide a port in a storm for securities lending?
Basel III, T+1 and EquiLend scandal all incentivise clearing, but also disintermediation
State Street suffers largest loss from securities sale since 2010
$294 million hit drives net income down 45% to six-year low
Non-performing CRE loans surge 61% at three US banks
NPL ratio for commercial real estate up to 2.3% across trio, highest since at least 2019
JP Morgan, BofA say Basel III plan could wipe out capital cushion
Banks forecast $82 billion cumulative hike in capital requirements from Fed proposals
Banks look to improve policies on self-reporting
Risk Live: Most whistleblowers report internally before alerting regulators, says ex-SEC official