Credit risk
The Libor replacement stakes: runners and riders
Credit-sensitive rates Ameribor and BSBY nose ahead of Ice, Markit and AXI; regulators keep watchful eye
Credit risk exposures shrink share of top UK banks’ RWAs
Barclays reported the biggest drop, both on a quarterly and yearly basis
Fed casts doubt on future of Basel internal models in US
Banks warn Fed cannot keep commitment to avoid Basel III capital hike if it forbids models
Post-merger, Caixa’s credit RWAs jump 47%
In RWA terms, the newly created entity is now bigger than Commerzbank and Rabobank
Finma add-on inflates Credit Suisse’s credit RWAs
The Sfr5.8 billion additional capital buffer accounts for two-fifths of bank’s quarterly increase
From one extreme to another: Covid upsets loan models once more
Unusual economic slumps tripped up models in 2020. Now, they are struggling with fast recoveries
RWA density rises at Citi, BNY Mellon and State Street
The eight US G-Sibs reported total assets of $14.2 trillion, up 5% quarter on quarter
UniCredit cut RWAs the most of EU systemic banks in Q1
The €10.8 billion cull helped improve the Italian bank’s CET1 ratio 52bp
ANZ expanded credit model in Q1
Risk density of overall loan book declined quarter on quarter
UK banks released £671m of loan-loss provisions in Q1
HSBC, Lloyds and NatWest all released surplus credit reserves
Santander added to its pile of shaky loans in Q1
‘Stage two’ assets made up 7% of its total at end-March
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Archegos debacle prompts Credit Suisse to slash prime services
Executives pledged $35 billion of cuts to investment bank leverage exposure
ECB’s models review heaped €275bn of extra RWAs on banks
Average bank CET1 capital ratio fell 71bp through Trim process
Systemic US banks released $9.4bn of credit reserves in Q1
JP Morgan reversed $4.2 billion of provisions alone
Government bond swaptions and how they might work
Payoffs based on bond yields instead of swap rates could offer new hedging tool, argue Crédit Agricole execs
Strange new world of Covid economics upends loan-loss models
Models wrong-footed by government support, slumps in whole sectors and differences within industries
Would margin rules have checked Archegos? Perhaps not
Regulator-prescribed margin methodology permits six-times leverage on equity swaps
Share of small EU bank assets under standardised approach grew in 2020
At small banks, SA covered 88% of credit exposures
EU banks’ credit risk estimates stabilised at year-end
Weighted average corporate borrower PD across countries climbed to 2.15%
EU systemic banks added €9bn to capital through IFRS 9 break
UniCredit was the top beneficiary with an 82 basis points CET1 ratio boost
Securitisations lowered Intesa’s credit RWAs in Q4
Synthetic securitisation shaved €2.2 billion off of credit RWAs alone
EU banks saw distressed loans heap up in Q4
‘Stage two’ assets make up 9.1% of banks’ total
A numerical simulation approach to study systemic risk in banking systems
The authors introduce a simple numerical algorithm to study banking systems subject to credit risk. The algorithm is based on a model that is completely defined by only two parameters.