Regulators
US G-Sibs shun unsecured short-term funding
Trend towards borrowings secured by high-quality collateral accelerates
Wells Fargo, BNY Mellon, State Street build repo exposures in Q2
Wells Fargo increases gross repo assets by 12.4% in three months to end-June
BAML leads US G-Sibs on swaps exposures to hedge funds
Bank has seen net current credit exposures to hedge funds rise 231% in three years
Swaps between UK banks and foreign firms climb in Q2
Total value of derivatives assets and liabilities with overseas lenders hits £2.09 trillion
Peripheral EU banks free encumbered assets
Ratio of encumbered assets to total assets at Greek banks falls to 23.9% from 31.6%
Big US banks hold more Treasuries as swaps collateral
Government securities made up 8.2% of all initial and variation margin at G-Sibs in Q2
US G-Sibs grow and multiply ties with other banks
Big eight banks grow by 1.5% in aggregate in Q2
Six US banks grow systemic footprints
BAML and Citi climb into higher G-Sib surcharge buckets
Issues of unsecured debt, CDs pick up steam at US G-Sibs
Senior unsecured debt amounts outstanding climb 31% on Q4 2014; CDs 45.5%
First-half trading revenues at US G-Sibs increase by a third year-on-year
Income from interest rate exposures more than tripled on H1 2018, while equity revenues increased 17%
Cleared swaps surge $6.6trn at US G-Sibs in Q2
Cleared swaps accounted for 54% of G-Sib notionals in Q2
State Street, Goldman push VAR limits the most
Average of largest trading losses-to-VAR at State Street above 90% over past 12 months
State Street, UBS and TD Group incur VAR breaches
Backtesting exceptions cause TD Group's and State Street's market risk capital charge multipliers to climb
At US G-Sibs, market RWAs fall $18bn in Q2
Fall in VAR-based measures of risk behind the decrease
State Street had most losing trading days since 2015 in Q2
Systemic US banks rack up 220 losing days in second quarter
EU banks increase systemic footprint
Values used for seven of 12 systemic risk indicators climb year-on-year
UK banks added OTC notionals in 2018 as EU peers cut back
Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds, Standard Chartered increased notionals by almost €15 trillion
Big EU banks’ Level 3 assets up 25% in 2018
Hard-to-value assets rise €35 billion year-on-year
Citi’s swaps clearing unit boosts client margin by $2bn
The largest FCM accounts for 27.1% of all required client margin
To be resolved: inside banks’ ‘living wills’
Non-bank units and service providers make up large share of groups’ critical functions
EU banks relax credit terms for OTC trades – ECB
Price and non-price trade conditions likely to ease for most firms in Q3
Basel III op risk method a stronger guard against losses – EBA
Number and size of op risk loss overshoots relative to capital would have been lower under new standardised approach
Soured loans tick up at EU banks in Q1
Total stock of NPLs hits €663 billion
‘Living wills’ show some G-Sibs will be simpler to resolve
Four big banks reported fewer wind-up entities in 2019 resolution plans compared with 2017