Regulators
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
Fall in market risk prods UK bank RWAs lower
Total RWAs amounted to £2.9 trillion at end-September
Interest rate ETD volumes tick up in Q3
Longer-dated contracts push total open interest higher
Italian banks hold most of Europe's loan reserves – EBA
Italy accounts for €84 billion of stage 3 allowances alone
Brexit may spur higher op risk losses – EBA
Largest five op risk losses in 2018 cost equivalent of 2.1% of EU bank's average CET1
US banks’ CDS books shrink $2 trillion in two years
Wells Fargo only major bank to grow credit portfolio year-to-date
Cross-border risks drive European G-Sib scores
Basel method shows cross-jurisdictional activity makes up 30.8% of banks’ total G-Sib scores
Barclays and Lloyds improve resilience to stress tests, HSBC falls back
Capital headroom above pass/fail thresholds increases to 250bp at lenders
IFRS 9 transition eases UK banks’ path through stress tests
Aggregate CET1 ratio 130bp lower without transitional relief
Too-big-to-fail resolution regimes found wanting
Fourteen of 24 member countries do not have bail-in powers
JP Morgan on brink of 4% G-Sib surcharge
US bank will have to cull balance sheet by year-end
Basel and Fed G-Sib methods pose dual test to US banks
Different emphasis of rival frameworks could frustrate bank efforts to reduce systemic risk
TD Bank on verge of G-Sib capital jump
Cross-jurisdictional activity behind ramp-up in Canadian bank's systemic riskiness
Leverage ratio unpopular among non-Basel countries
Few jurisdictions use measure to backstop risk-based capital frameworks
Citi, State Street grow off-balance sheet exposures
Big US banks add $11 billion in exposures during Q3
VAR-based charges drop at Goldman and Wells, rise at JP
VAR-based capital requirements fell 7% on average across the eight G-Sibs
Goldman's OTC client margin jumps
FCM client funds increase 36% year-on-year – the fastest growth among leading US clearers
G-Sib indicator change would hike JP Morgan surcharge
US bank would swallow 3.5% G-Sib surcharge if substituability cap lifted