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IRB risk-weights highest at smallest EU banks – ECB
Lenders with less than €30 billion in assets consistently report lower risk densities than bigger banks across all modelled portfolios
EU G-Sibs outpace non-systemic peers on Level 3 asset growth
Increase in mark-to-model holdings threatens to inflate too-big-to-fail lenders’ systemic profile
Covid-forborne and state-backed loans keep creaking louder
Share of non-performing ex-moratoria and guaranteed exposures at EU banks balloons amid energy crisis, EBA data shows
Client margin for swaps drops to virtually zero at Credit Suisse
Required funds posted to the bank’s US clearing unit totalled $12 at end-2022
Uncleared, unrated CDS notionals boomed in H1 2022
Non-cleared trades up 21% in six months and 14% in twelve, BIS data shows
Client margin for swaps hits new record at four FCMs
Required funds at all-time high at BofA, Goldman, JP Morgan and Barclays in November as market turbulence persists
Shadow banks grew net repo claims to record $2.1trn in 2021 – FSB
Non-bank intermediaries, led by money market funds, tapped Fed’s reverse repo window as rates began their ascent
FSB: third of climate stress tests not tackling physical risk
Six jurisdictions conducted exercises only for transition risk
Merrill Lynch hoovered up $1.5bn of client margin in October
Required funds for F&O rose 66%, bucking trend across major FCMs
F-IRB captured more of EU banks’ credit risk in H1
Gains mostly accrued from bank-modelled A-IRB portfolios
Rifts widen across EU banks’ trading results
Largest fair-value hits from HFT assets moved further from median in H1
UK banks’ CVA charges ballooned by £8bn in volatile Q3
Bank of England figures show capital requirements at highest since early pandemic readings
Client margin up 4% at Barclays’ swaps clearing unit
US unit of UK bank became sixth FCM by share in October
Standardised market charges rose faster at IMA users in H1
Market convulsions and structural FX hedge crackdown felt less acutely at SA-only banks, finds EBA data
Savers and funds grabbed MBSs as banks and Fed retreated
Central banks and commercial lenders became net sellers of bundled mortgages as rates rose, says BIS
OTC clearing rebounded at G-Sibs in 2021
Trend reverses as bilateral settlement of OTC derivatives loses previous year’s gains
Handful of EU banks reap benefits from domestic exposure carve-out
BNP Paribas, ING Bank and UniCredit account for more than three-fourths of G-Sib score savings from favourable intra-EU risk calculation
Global banks’ systemic footprint grew at record pace in 2021
Every indicator up on previous year, only the second time in G-Sib assessment history
Eurozone G-Sib waiver cuts BNP Paribas a break
New carve-out of intra-bloc exposures prompts drop in French bank’s surcharge
Cross-border risk dominates 2022 G-Sib scores
Overseas lending and borrowing largest contributor to scores of banks in Canada, EU, Japan, Singapore, Switzerland and UK
Credit Suisse, Schwab and UBS hardest hit by new risk indicator
Swiss dealer sees biggest score increase under revised substitutability category in G-Sib assessment
New risk indicator ensnares BofA, benefits Chinese banks
Overhaul in substitutability category pushed US bank's capital surcharge to 2%
BofA faces higher G-Sib surcharge, BNPP earns reprieve
Second-largest US lender assigned to 2% capital add-on bucket in latest systemic risk assessment
FCM client margin for swaps hit record high in September
JP Morgan reported the largest monthly increase across the 13 reporting firms