Top US banks reined in RWAs in Q2

- By Abdool Fawzee Bhollah and Louie Woodall
- 23 Jul 2020

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Systemic US banks’ risk-weighted assets (RWAs) fell by roughly 2% in aggregate over the three months to end-June, having leapt higher in the first quarter as the coronavirus crisis raged.

The total amount of RWAs used to the set the binding Common Equity Tier 1 (CET1) capital requirements for each firm stood at $6.8 trillion at the end of Q2. Barring Goldman Sachs, binding RWAs fell at each global systemically important bank (G-Sib) over the quarter.

State Street’s fell the most percentage

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