Banks
US banks stand apart as top lenders cancel dividends
Capital savings would equal 3% of end-2019 aggregate total if payouts suspended
PRA relief to save banks up to 33% on VAR-based charges
HSBC may benefit most from easing of capital rules
Dividend freeze could save top UK banks £6.5bn
HSBC will no longer distribute a cash dividend worth $3.1bn
CECL delay grants mid-sized US banks a capital windfall
Synchrony, Huntingdon and Citizens among those to reap most CET1 relief
Wells Fargo led top US banks on CMBS risk in 2019
Commercial mortgage-backed securitisations are struggling amid Covid-19 crisis
Deutsche Bank cut liquidity buffer in 2019
Cash balance dropped €49 billion last year
Local banks’ CDSs chase Italy’s sovereign risk higher
MPS and Banco BPM creditworthiness lags Italy’s
UK bank ECL scenarios may lowball coronavirus impact
BoE offers IFRS 9 relief on virus-hit loans
Countercyclical buffer releases may free €6bn at top EU banks
Banco Santander and BNP Paribas could free €1.1 billion each
Top US banks’ buyback freeze to bolster capital above $30bn
Suspension will save the equivalent of 4% of aggregate CET1
US G-Sibs urged to release surplus liquidity to fight virus sell-off
Top banks have about $378 billion of extra HQLA that could be released
Aggregate LCR of systemic US banks edged lower in 2019
Net cash outflows increased at a faster pace than HQLA last year
LCRs of UK banks diverged in 2019
StanChart’s dropped 14 percentage points last year
Over two years, top US banks’ capital fell 5%
Stress capital buffer could reduce CET1 a further $40 billion
Barclays used securitisations as credit risk shield in 2019
Risk-weighted assets for these exposures increased 44%
StanChart’s derivatives exposures climb 42% in 2019
UK bank’s leverage ratio falls 30 basis points year-on-year
Citi shed over $32bn of counterparty exposures in Q4
Risk-weighted assets for CCR exposures dropped -12%
UK bank market RWAs ebbed in 2019
HSBC shed $5.9 billion of market RWAs in 2019
Credit impairment charge up 22% at StanChart
Higher provisions taken, even as number of stage three loans drops
Scotiabank takes C$116m XVA charge
Introduction of centralised valuation platform altered fair value of uncollateralised positions
Goldman hits the Collins floor
Changes to loss-given-default models caused advanced approaches credit RWAs to plummet
De-risking efforts yet to boost profits at Lloyds
Commercial banking entity saw RWAs fall -11% in 2019
Crédit Agricole leads French banks on return on RWAs
BNP Paribas only bank to improve RoRWA year-on-year
HSBC to reallocate $100bn of RWAs in shake-up
Global banking and markets division to take brunt of cuts