Regulators
Tri-party repo trades backed by GSE debt gain popularity
Agency bond trades made up 37% of total tri-party transactions on September 4
France, Germany lead EU on MREL debt sales
French banks account for 27% of total bail-in bond issuances
Fix to Fed stress test snafu lowers two banks’ capital charges
Goldman, Morgan Stanley see stress capital buffer cuts
UK banks’ rate swaps books continued to grow in Q2
Interest rate swap exposures hit £4.42 trillion
UK banks’ swaps exposures to overseas firms edge lower
Total net derivatives assets fell 4% over three months to end-June
Eurozone securitisation dealmaking bounced back in Q2
Special purpose vehicles bought €19.2 billion of securitised bank loans in Q2
Systemic eurozone banks expand cleared portfolios
BNP Paribas is an outlier, having ratcheted up bilateral trading since 2013
Tougher OTC trading conditions to persist, say European banks
Seventy-three per cent of respondents expect tight price and non-price terms through September
How Deutsche shrank its systemic footprint
Total exposures have fallen one-third since 2013
Systemic indicators surged at European banks in 2019
Total exposures increased 3% year on year
Barclays led European banks on derivatives notionals in 2019
Deutsche Bank cut notionals 10% last year
Fed dollar swap operations slow as funding strains ease
Seven-day swap utilisation has dropped off since May
OTC swaps exposures of systemic US banks fell back in Q2
Aggregate current credit exposures to hedge funds falls 42% quarter on quarter
US banks’ corporate default indicators worsened in Q2
Median probability of default increases 38bp to 1.7% on the quarter
Systemic US banks’ leverage exposures shrank $1.4tn in Q2
On-balance sheet exposures fall on Fed relief
FCM client margin ebbed from record highs over Q2
Goldman Sachs was the only FCM to increase swaps margin significantly
Citi, Goldman, had most winning trading days of top banks in Q2
In aggregate, US G-Sibs racked up 314 profit-making days over the quarter
Internal stress tests of EU banks not up to scratch – ECB
Only one in 10 banks’ internal tests are tougher than supervisor-run programmes
EU banks’ Q1 credit risk estimates show little Covid effect
Probability of defaults for retail exposures edged up only slightly quarter-on-quarter
Corporate, SME loans to take brunt of Covid shock, say EU banks
Though credit outlook has darkened, banks expect to increase lending overall
Covid hammered CEE banks’ capital ratios
One-quarter of EU banks have CET1 ratios below 13%
Coronavirus shock to hit diversified lenders hardest – ECB
Diversified and wholesale lenders projected to see CET1 ratio decline 7 percentage points under worst-case scenario
Severe Covid recession could topple some EU banks
One-quarter of lenders would see CET1 ratios fall below 6.8%
Mark-to-model assets spiked at eurozone banks in Q1
Level 3 derivatives assets increased 52% quarter-on-quarter