Banks
Canadian banks’ market RWAs spike on FRTB switch
CIBC, TD Bank and Scotia saw end-January charges jump amid overall ditching of internal models at Canada’s big five
Credit Suisse USA rounds 2023 with fifth VAR breach
Wall Street unit’s capital multiplier ratchets back up to 3.4x
Five US banks hit record leverage exposures
Ballooning balance sheets leave Goldman, Morgan Stanley with razor-thin SLR buffers
Higher revenue pushes HSBC’s op risk up 14%
Increased net interest income over 2023 major driver behind six-year high figure
ECB raised Pillar 2 charges for just three CRE-heavy banks in latest SREP
Pfandbriefbank and Luminor saw largest increases across 106 banks subject to 2023 assessment
Citi, JP Morgan incurred record VAR overshoots in Q4
Peak single-day losses rank among worst for US banks post-pandemic
First Citizens’ high-volatility CRE loans doubled last year
Rise in 150%-weighted class of exposures largest among 260 US lenders
Capital One’s credit exposure riskiness set to rise post-merger
Discover acquisition would push share of assets with 100% risk-weight to six-year high, pro forma analysis shows
Interbank lending plummets at major European banks
Reduced repo operations and TLTRO repayments among drivers
Capital One’s purchase of Discover would triple its Treasury holdings
Record UST boost would propel combined company past six US lenders
Treasuries coupon pile-up inflates Nomura’s foreign sovereign assets
Standardised exposures to overseas governments see tenfold increase despite ebbing IR VAR
Rabobank cuts back on ECL overlays
Improved backtesting performance reduces add-ons to allowances to lowest in five years
At some US regionals, CRE loans eclipse tangible equity by up to 7x
Valley National, NYCB and First Foundation the most levered in a sample of 30 banks
Nordea writes off €130m of intangibles after accounting change
Fourth quarter impairment charges fourteen times larger than year prior
TLTRO hedge unwinding bill tops €1.2bn at BNPP, SocGen
Exit from swaps tripped up by ECB’s tightening marred banks’ 2023 throughout
Shinhan, Kookmin set aside record reserves amid real estate worries
Kookmin provisions account for 38% of income; 23% for Shinhan
ING’s op risk jumps 10% on model updates
Other European AMA users report moderate hikes
UBS predicts RWA cuts hampered by Basel III, model updates
Planned wind-down of unwanted Credit Suisse assets to be offset by $25 billion in add-ons
NYCB’s borrowing boosted cash reserves by 66% in Q4
Embattled bank bolsters liquidity in anticipation of tighter supervision but sees funding costs climb
RBI’s op risk charges climb 22% on input-series update
Recalibration reverses savings from discontinuation of AMA a year earlier
Latest FDIC special assessment tougher than 2009 version
Most US banks face higher toll under new methodology
SEB, Swedbank see record negative OCI
Lower discount rate linked to pension obligations triggers aggregate unrealised losses of Skr5.5 billion in Q4
Comerica takes $91m hit on BSBY discontinuation
Bank forced to re-designate $7bn of receive-fixed swaps as SOFR-referencing hedges
Anticipating Fed cuts, Huntington drops $15.5bn of pay-fixed swaptions
Bank terminates costly hedging strategy merely a quarter after upping notional values by a third