Regulators
Citi grows US swaps margin share in 2018
Citi remains the largest FCM, with a 27.5% share of total required client margin
Cross-border euro lending rebounds in Q3
Intra-euro area cross-border claims accounted for 40% of the annual increase
Overseas lenders back eurozone, shun UK and US
Cross-border loans to eurozone increase $93 billion in third quarter of 2018
Nomura, MUFG curb derivatives exposures
Outstanding positions make up almost one-quarter of Nomura's total leverage exposure
Standardised approaches lose out in FRTB update
Ratio of standardised approach to IMA capital estimated to increase
Regulators demand action on rogue market risk models
Thirteen banks out of 49 face remedial action
EU banks bracing for Ibors' demise – EBA
Nine out of 10 firms working on how benchmark reform will affect existing contracts
Tools to blunt credit risk popular at EU banks. But why?
Just 1% to 5% of exposures covered by credit risk mitigants
EU bank capital ratios creep up in Q3
Average transitional ratio increases to 14.7%
EU banks punished over lowball credit risk estimates
Two of 17 firms facing follow-up inspections will be hit by capital add-ons
EU banks slash €32 billion soured loans in Q3
Italian, Greek and Spanish banks cut most toxic loans
Soured loans set NordLB apart among Landesbanken
Troubled lender has €7 billion of defaulted 'specialised lending' corporate exposures
Credit data shines light on Banca Carige's woes
Banca Carige weighed down with non-performing exposures
Valuation model risk on the rise at EU banks
Over two-thirds of fair value assets priced using banks' models
FBOs get smaller, simpler and easier to resolve
Foreign bank IHCs have shrunk between 16% and 41% since Q3 2016
Many EU banks’ sovereign portfolios highly concentrated
Forty-eight lenders have more than three-quarters of sovereign risk allocated to home country
Bond trading dominates EU bank market risk
Traded debt position risk accounts for 60% of market risk capital requirements
Nordic banks shoulder weightiest capital buffers in EU
DNB Bank has 9.10% combined buffer, the largest of stress-tested banks
Two stress tests give conflicting verdicts on UK banks
Under the BoE’s severe stress scenario, the average drop to UK banks’ CET1 capital ratios was 740bp, compared with 570bp under the EBA’s adverse scenario
EU banks most exposed to French, German, US sovereign risk
French bonds make up 17% of all EU bank sovereign exposures
IFRS 9 hits standardised banks harder than IRB peers
Capital wallop over eight times greater for SA banks than IRB
EU countries accelerate countercyclical buffer increases
Eleven EU members currently apply CCyBs, with Bulgaria the most recent country to join the club
Italian banks lead EU on cutting soured loans
Intesa Sanpaolo, Banco BPM, UniCredit shed most NPLs in H1