Real estate
Run risk on funds not a systemic issue, say market participants
FSB and Iosco are consulting on drive to make open-ended funds adopt anti-dilution tools
Bank of the West brings C$730m in loan provisions to BMO
Acquired book comes with 2.5x the quarterly charges booked by BMO standalone
Bank of the West sale lops 13% off BNP Paribas’s CRE exposure
Disposal of US lender included €11.1bn in loans to creaky sector
Token effort is no blockchain boon for illiquid assets
Cash-like tokenised instruments find takers; initiatives based on less liquid assets struggle to take off
Fed’s climate stress test whips up storm for banks
Long-awaited US climate risk exercise puts tough pressure on banks’ data and models
Savers and funds grabbed MBSs as banks and Fed retreated
Central banks and commercial lenders became net sellers of bundled mortgages as rates rose, says BIS
Asia moves: Senior hires at Deutsche Bank, Maybank and more
Latest job news from across the industry
HSBC’s quarterly UK provisions rose 111% in Q3
Uncertainty around interest rates and political stability reflected in model overlays
Europe’s regulators play ‘time the downturn’ with CCyB
Indicators justify hikes in countercyclical capital buffer, but shock-driven recession looms large
China Merchants’ real estate NPLs double in H1
Some 3% of property development loans were non-performing, double the end-2021 level
HSBC’s China real estate exposures see fourfold rise in defaults
Proportion of “impaired” exposures to mainland investments jumped $1.7 billion in six months
Asia moves: Senior hires at Standard Chartered, Barclays and more
Latest job news across the industry
BlackRock’s 65% of AUM accounts for 1% of global emissions
Asset manager’s absolute emissions linked to corporate securities and real estate stood at 330.7 million tons of CO2e in 2020
APG hires in-house weatherman to interpret climate data
Europe’s wettest summer in a century prompts asset managers to calculate flood risk for real estate
Validation nightmare: the slotting approach under International Financial Reporting Standard 9
This paper makes an important contribution to the practice of validation by focusing on an under-researched area of the slotting approach to real estate specialized lending under the International Financial Reporting Standard 9 (IFRS 9) framework.
Two Sigma building quant tools to hunt real estate bargains
Information-rich market offers “trillions of dollars of opportunity”, says data chief
Loan losses: Banks’ estimates out of sync with Fed’s
Wells Fargo worst performer in latest DFAST exercise
Botched fallbacks leave CLOs facing early Libor switch
Nearly two-thirds of CRE securitisations issued since 2019 have already triggered fallback clauses
People news: Yarian leaves HSBC, Goldman’s Lemkau joins MSD Partners, and more
Latest job changes across the industry
Moonshots shelved: banks spend on home-working tech
Dealers made success of remote working switch – now they’re investing in its future, and pausing grander ambitions
Economic policy uncertainty, investors’ attention and US real estate investment trusts’ herding behaviors
Using a quantile regression model, this study examines economic policy uncertainty and investors’ attention for policy risk on US real estate investment trusts’ (REITs’) herding behaviors.
Eurozone real estate funds build equity holdings
Net purchases of equity hit €18.2 billion
Lower risk-weights for real estate free up Nordea’s capital
ECB cut risk-weights for Swedish and Norwegian commercial real estate to 50% at year-end
Liquidity risks acute for popular retail funds – Esma
Eight per cent of real estate fund NAV may be withdrawn over a one-day period