Capital requirements
Germany plans countercyclical buffer hike
Iceland, Bulgaria and France have also increased add-ons year-to-date
Most US G-Sib assets attract low risk weightings
Of total assets, 53% have a standardised risk weighting of 50% or lower
Over four years, US banks blitz correlation trading risks
JP Morgan’s CRM charge has fallen 94% since Q1 2015
Can bankers stop the trading book killer?
FRTB won’t obliterate your whole markets business any more, just some very specific parts
EU insurers’ solvency ratios weather UFR change
New fixing of ultimate forward rate increases firms’ solvency capital requirements
Morgan Stanley’s CVA charge swells 19% in Q1
Credit valuation adjustment capital charges have decreased at most G-Sibs year-on-year
Japanese banks inching away from US CLO market
New rules prevent firms investing in CLOs where originator is not obliged to retain risk
Fund-linked structured products face extinction under FRTB
Global market risk capital standards carry sky-high charges for fund derivatives
Generali’s solvency ratio falls on risk-free rate changes
Regulatory changes increased present value of liabilities
Aussie banks crush IRRBB capital charges
‘Big Four’ cut IRRBB RWAs by A$23 billion year-on-year
Whose leverage ratio is it anyway?
Basel's capital backstop has been distorted out of shape by supervisory meddling
Final FRTB tweak ‘will kill correlation trading’, say dealers
Some European banks plan to lobby ECB for relief when rules are transposed to local law
Most Basel members have yet to adopt TLAC
Many countries also behind on implementing SA-CCR, NSFR, securitisation framework
Commerzbank’s leverage ratio sinks as balance sheet bloats
Total leverage exposure hits €527 billion
Citi’s credit risk measures diverge
Standardised RWAs rise; modelled RWAs fall in Q1 2019
Top UK banks' CVA charges up 10% in Q1
Barclays' and Standard Chartered's requirements increase over 20% each
SocGen makes great strides to 12% capital target
Risk-weighted asset movements improve CET1 ratio by 23bp alone
ING offloads stake in Indian bank, bringing capital relief
Market RWAs drop €2 billion following asset sale
Nordic, UK banks have highest countercyclical buffers
Nordea, Lloyds and RBS had the largest add-ons of banks surveyed
StanChart's CVA charge triples year-on-year
Capital requirement hits $112 million at end-March
Leverage ratio target slips further out of Deutsche’s reach
Exposures balloon after three quarters of decline
Deutsche predicts lower G-Sib charge
German lender expects to fall into 1.5% surcharge bucket by 2022
Under SA-CCR, Nomura leverage exposure drops over ¥7 trillion
Methodology switch sends leverage ratio soaring to 5.04%
Bail-in bond issuance bolsters Barclays' capital
UK bank plans £8 billion of AT1 bond issuances in 2019