Capital adequacy
Op risk update lops £72m off NatWest’s capital requirement
RWAs for operational risk fell 4% in Q1
Derivatives footprint of top EU banks shrinks
Deutsche Bank reduced these exposures by 12% alone
Prudential filters took a smaller bite out of bank capital in 2020
Additional valuation adjustments deducted €1.3 billion less from CET1 at top banks
ECB’s models review heaped €275bn of extra RWAs on banks
Average bank CET1 capital ratio fell 71bp through Trim process
Share of small EU bank assets under standardised approach grew in 2020
At small banks, SA covered 88% of credit exposures
Archegos fiasco clips Credit Suisse’s capital ratio
CET1 ratio will be “at least” 12% for Q1
EU banks saw distressed loans heap up in Q4
‘Stage two’ assets make up 9.1% of banks’ total
Equity growth slowed at US banks in 2020
CET1 ratios of biggest US banks were largely flat on 2019
Dividend freeze helped keep lid on bank CDS spreads – BIS
But the ban on distributions wrecked bank share prices
Top US banks to lose out from end of SLR relief
Average G-Sib will see SLR decline 90 basis points using Q4 2020 figures
At 40% of EU banks, credit risk own-funds deviate from benchmarks
Eleven banks lowballed capital requirements without justification in latest exercise
Fourteen EU banks face sanctions for poor market risk models
Twenty lenders lowballed capital requirements
At Canada’s ‘Big Five’, counterparty and op RWAs grew in 2020
Credit, market RWAs ebbed over the year
Swaps, repo counterparties of US banks grew riskier in 2020
At Citi, counterparty credit RWAs for OTC portfolios increased 51%
High-earning banks set aside more Covid provisions – BIS
Provisions across 70 banks in H1 2020 were almost quadruple those taken in H2 2019
Top US banks’ market risk charges surged in 2020
Citi ended year with highest charge of the G-Sibs, at almost $9 billion
UK banks count cost of EU software capital reversal
Average CET1 ratio would fall 29 basis points
Ailing loans added $15bn to StanChart’s RWAs in 2020
Effects of credit deterioration offset by disposals, portfolio reductions
Regulatory breaks strengthened EU banks’ CET1 ratios in 2020
In spite of Covid turmoil, top lenders improved their CET1 ratios by around 70bp on average
Model reviews imposed capital charges on top EU banks in Q4
Societe Generale incurred a -36bp hit to its CET1 ratio due to Trim
ING takes capital hit for lowballing loan-loss provisions
NPE coverage ratio fell over Q4
State guarantees saved UniCredit €8bn in RWAs through 2020
Italian lender has €20.8 billion of government-backed loans on its books
Easing of op risk add-on boosts Commonwealth Bank
Op RWA relief offset increases due to credit, market risk
Synthetic risk transfer plumps SocGen’s capital buffer
Risk transfer and CET1 relief smooth out add-on for model risk at the French bank