Exposure modelling
Shift to SEC-SA pushes Helaba’s charges for securitisation exposures to record high
Standardised RWAs account for 63% of the bank’s total following fivefold increase
Weighting for leverage
A credit exposure model for leveraged collateralised counterparties is presented
Record number of US banks turned to riskless assets in Q1
Western Alliance leads pack with doubling of exposures in 0% bucket
CBA’s SFT exposures balloon 50% during H2 2023
Surge in repos and similar transactions puts lender only behind NAB among Aussie dealers
Capital One’s credit exposure riskiness set to rise post-merger
Discover acquisition would push share of assets with 100% risk-weight to six-year high, pro forma analysis shows
Treasuries coupon pile-up inflates Nomura’s foreign sovereign assets
Standardised exposures to overseas governments see tenfold increase despite ebbing IR VAR
The top 10 investment risks for 2024
New fears include mounting government debt, the rise of AI, a credit crunch and regulatory overkill
State Street and Northern Trust offload riskless assets in Q3
Combined $40bn plunge sees both banks hit four-year lows
Leveraged wrong-way risk
A model to assess the exposure to leveraged and collateralised counterparties is presented
Riskless assets hit three-year low at top US banks
JP Morgan drives shift, shedding more than $65 billion in risk-free exposures
US banks’ RWA density dwarfs that of European peers
Truist, Capital One and PNC Bank lead with risk density above 65%
Japanese banks hike BoJ deposits by 12%
Deposits at central bank hit three-year high at end-March, as lenders sought safe haven amid wider turmoil
SA-CCR charges surge at BNP Paribas and ING
Dealers’ RWAs rise combined €3.1bn in volatile Q1, among biggest quarterly jumps since SA-CCR’s EU debut
Bayesian backtesting for counterparty risk models
Utilising Bayesian methods, the authors put forward a new means for counterparty risk model backtesting which is both simple to implement and conceptually sound.
UBS’s risk density set to increase after Credit Suisse takeover
Rescued bank’s RWA-to-exposure ratio rose at faster clip prior to collapse
Japan dealers’ derivatives exposures keep inflating
MUFG, SMFG and SMTH added almost ¥6 trillion to their balance sheets in the three months to end-September
Netting uncertainty inflates Citi’s Russia exposure
Russia made up 1.2% of the bank’s top 25 exposures by country, up from 0.8% in Q1
Boosting the ESG exposure of a low‑risk portfolio
Nikolay Radev, senior quantitative researcher at FactSet, discusses the limitations of previous environmental, social and governance (ESG) measurement, and proposes a new approach to optimising ESG exposure in minimum tail-risk (MTR) portfolio…
Derivatives exposures take toll on Japan leverage measure
Leverage ratios at Mizuho, SMFG and SMTH hit multi-year lows
EU banks’ derivatives exposures jumped 36% in H1
Top banks added €235bn since December, amid switch to SA-CCR and a new leverage ratio template