Capital requirements
Basel risk weight functions and forward-looking expected credit losses
The authors establish that the combination of lifetime ECL and the Basel Capital Adequacy Framework, which relies on a one-year horizon, results in capital overestimation. Alongside this finding, and in order to alleviate the problem, they propose two…
New CVA regime to hike affected RWAs fivefold at EU banks
Systemically important lenders face 622% increase in CVA RWAs; but effect could be less if existing exemptions are carried over
FRTB to double market RWAs of EU banks
Risk-weighted assets across 44 banks to increase 105% on average
RWA density drops at Goldman Sachs
Bank built up stocks of risk-free assets in third quarter
BMO braces for SA-CCR, revised securitisation charges
Bank expects C$100m equity hit through introduction of IFRS 16
Appetite for corporate credit risk grows at EU banks
Total credit RWAs increase 3.2% from end-September 2018 to end-June 2019
The Fundamentals of market risk rules
With the 2022 Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) deadline looming, banks are fast coming to grips with the amount of work still to be done to achieve a successful implementation
Competitive differentiation – Reaping the benefits of XVA centralisation
A forum of industry leaders discusses the latest developments in XVA and the strategic, operational and technological challenges of derivatives valuation in today’s environment, including the key considerations for banks looking to move to a standardised…
Top banks’ trading books dwindled in 2018
Trading and available-for-sale assets dropped €160 billion year-on-year
Now less of a systemic risk, Deutsche wins capital relief
Prospective leverage ratio should fall to 3.75% after risk-cutting efforts
Over four years, US G-Sibs slash securitisation charges
Banks also have more exposures capitalised using sophisticated calculation approaches than in years prior
The theoretical foundations of XVAs
Bloomberg analyses the theoretical basis of XVAs, focusing on the works and findings of its head of quantitative XVA analytics, Mats Kjaer, who emphasises the role of the capital valuation adjustment as a major driver of derivatives trading profitability…
StanChart’s CVA charge jumps 39% in Q3
CVA accounts for an ever-increasing portion of the bank’s total counterparty credit risk
Goldman, BBVA and TD Group incur VAR breaches in Q3
US unit of TD Group endures four breaches in three months to end-September
Citi’s counterparty credit RWAs surge 12% in Q3
Bank has increased OTC derivatives exposures 15% year-to-date and repo exposures by 37%
IFRS 9 capital relief saves Lloyds £768m
Phase-in measures ameliorate CET1 hit of higher loan-loss provisions
EBA’s Campa: reduce Pillar 2 charges to offset output floor
Bankers plead for smaller capital hit and more predictability on implementation of Basel III
Wells Fargo could escape Collins floor
Op risk-weighted asset increases see advanced RWAs near standardised measures
JP Morgan revs up securitisation engine
Exposures receiving securitisation capital treatment increase by $13.7 billion year-on-year
Commerzbank plumps capital buffer with AT1 bond sale
Bail-in instrument helps expand buffer above MDA limit to around 220bp
UniCredit bolsters capital ratio on Fineco sale
Italian bank also offloaded Mediobanca stake
Generali’s solvency ratio continues to slide
Rate cuts, bond movements hike SCR and bite into own funds
Wells Fargo op risk charge jumps $3.6bn in Q3
San Francisco-based lender still bound by standardised capital approach
SocGen’s CET1 ratio shoots higher as revamp continues
French bank sheds €7.1 billion of RWAs in Q3