Risk-weighted assets (RWAs)
RBI’s VAR gauges hit new record
Banking and trading book risk rose in Q3 amid shifts in risk factor mix
Strong dollar pushes ANZ’s CVA charges up 57%
Risk-weighted assets rose A$1.4 billion in three months; biggest quarterly increase since mid-2019
Ulster Bank exit sheds £8.7bn off NatWest’s A-IRB credit RWAs
Reversal to standardised approach helps lower capital charges in Q3 despite €514m exit costs
RBI, ING’s op risk charges inflated by AMA updates
RWAs rise a combined €4.8 billion at the two banks
Vol pushed HSBC’s modelled market risk up 37% in Q3
Erratic markets in Europe and Asia blamed for $6.4bn increase led by VAR and SVAR-based charges
EBA: more climate risk supervisory reporting is coming
Official anticipates effort to identify climate impact on internal models, concentration risk
NatWest’s modelled market RWAs up 10% on RNIV backstop
Bank sees higher charges while it reworks VAR engine
Barclays frees up £4.5bn RWAs after overissuance clean-up
The bank unwound hedges that safeguarded its buyback of mis-sold US notes
Modelled RWAs diverge from standardised at Wells Fargo
Gap between the two methodologies hits $152bn – its widest ever
Morgan Stanley’s VAR averaged $61m in Q3
Trading risk indicator surged 33%, second-hottest reading since 2013
Cantor to offer equity swap hedges to prime brokers
Provider to enter race with Capitolis and Nearwater as it preps early 2023 launch for ABCP service
Chill winds blow for Capitolis’s equity swap platform
Fintech’s effort to revive off-balance-sheet funding runs into market and regulatory turbulence
A-IRB to lose credit risk reach under Basel III
Americas banks expected to generate just 40% of RWAs using internal models, from 67% currently
Citi poaches BofA capital veteran for treasury CRO role
Cenk Kamis leaves for rival US bank after 20-year stint at Bank of America
SA-CCR’s sacrifice: who stands to lose from new capital rules
Risk.net research shows the potential for dealers to be left at a disadvantage to their foreign rivals
Market risk capital relief could cut charges at 13 EU banks
EBA says Covid-style measures could be considered to tackle energy crisis
Basel III output floor set to bind 24% of banks
Latest BCBS monitoring report shows four-fold increase over next seven years
Europe’s countercyclical buffers buck recession trends
Almost half of EBU’s members have set out CCyB hikes; five plan two or more before mid-2023
A chilly reception for climate risk capital
Bankers don’t believe climate-adjusted risk-weights will enter EU prudential framework – not for now, at least
China’s ABC, BoC buck H1 trend and cut market risk
Market risk charges keep rising at CCB, ICBC and all non-systemic banks
BoComm’s CET1 ratio drops to lowest since 2013
RWAs jumped 8% in the first half, dragging capital adequacy down 63bp
EU Parliament creates multiverse of SA-CCR outcomes
Some MEPs want to ease rules further than EC draft; others want return to undiluted Basel text
ING’s market RWAs jump 30% as FX positions breach waiver limit
Increase arose from stricter EU rules under which FX exposures qualify as structural hedges
Morgan Stanley’s top-of-the-league TLAC rises further
The bank’s bail-in RWA buffer, already the highest among US peers, rose five percentage points in Q2