G-Sibs
US banks’ liquidity buffers thinnest among G-Sibs
Mean LCR of US banks hits 122.5% in Q1
How capital rules overwhelmed bank strategy
Regulators shouldn’t run a bank – but Basel III and stress tests have put them in the cockpit
European and UK leverage ratios fall in Q1
UK banks had leverage ratios on average 26bp higher than their continental European peers
Giant EU banks grow asset share over four years
Share of assets held by five largest banks in the median EU member state hits 65%
Citi, Goldman, State Street add $685m of complex assets
Private equity, asset-backed security and loan holdings drive increase in Level 3 instruments
Outsourcers, IM delay and machine learning
The week on Risk.net, May 25–31, 2019
CDS sold by US banks down $55bn in Q1
JP Morgan cut CDS notionals the most, shedding $36.8 billion from its portfolio
JP Morgan cleared swaps balloon $8trn in Q1
Total G-Sib cleared notionals climb 23% in three months to end-March
G-Sibs add $33trn of OTC notionals in Q1
JP Morgan expands swaps book by 23% in first quarter
Systemic risk scores surge at six US G-Sibs
JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs bump up against higher-risk surcharge thresholds
Deutsche Bank's asset cull to lower systemic risk buffer
G-Sib surcharge could drop to 1.5%; leverage ratio to 3.75%
HSBC's systemic risk indicator amounts grow
UK lender is just 20bp short of 2.5% capital surcharge bucket
Deutsche predicts lower G-Sib charge
German lender expects to fall into 1.5% surcharge bucket by 2022
New SLR could cut $63bn off BNY Mellon’s leverage exposure
Proposed rule change would exempt central bank reserves from SLR denominator
Don’t fear the clearer
Wider use of CCPs not systemic threat – but participants do face hard-to-measure risks
Credit risk concentrations vary across big EU banks
The median G-Sib had roughly 60% of its credit portfolio exposed to counterparties outside its domicile
Two banks dominate EU securitisations
Banco Santander and Deutsche account for over one-third of total securitisation exposures among G-Sibs
Swap book values of US G-Sibs dropped in 2018
Settled-to-market technique responsible for some deductions year-on-year
European and US G-Sibs' LCRs diverge in 2018
The average LCR at the 13 European and Swiss G-Sibs stood at 145% at end-December, 42 basis points higher than at end-2017
Swaps, repo grow share of G-Sib leverage exposures
On-balance sheet exposures shrink as a constituent of key regulatory measure
SOFR tipped to hit 300bp at quarter-end
US repo rate set for 25% spike thanks to French bank “window dressing” and US Treasury issuance
Basel members make progress on regulatory alignment
Of the 98 flaws in national implementations of Basel III identified, most have been addressed by competent authorities
Schwab, Northern Trust’s funding risk rivals G-Sibs'
Two non-G-Sibs have high short-term wholesale funding scores under Method 2
Goldman, Wells Fargo grew hard-to-value assets in 2018
In contrast, the other six US G-Sibs slashed $4.4 billion of Level 3 assets on aggregate