Switzerland
Operational uncertainty – An unavoidable challenge
The transition from Libor to a new risk-free rate has revealed a number of challenges for all financial markets participants – the nature and scope of what lies ahead is vast, impacting businesses, operations and support functions. KPMG‘s global Libor…
Asia moves: JP Morgan names new Apac CEO, Axa hires six heads, and more
Latest job news across the industry
Top 10 operational risks for 2020
The biggest op risks for 2020, as chosen by industry practitioners
Top 10 op risks 2020: regulatory risk
New technology and reams of red tape make non-compliance fines more likely
Credit Suisse may slip leverage capital bind
Swiss bank has risk density of 32%
Quant Guide 2020: University of St Gallen
St Gallen, Switzerland
Quant Guide 2020: ETH Zurich/University of Zurich
Zurich, Switzerland
Quant Guide 2020: EPFL
Lausanne, Switzerland
At UBS, asset cull drives down RWAs
Final quarter of 2019 saw risk-weighted assets fall $5.4 billion
Asia moves: Soc Gen replaces Asia chief, Deutsche Bank appoints wealth management head, and more
Latest job changes across the industry
Threats posed by systemic banks vary by region
Eurozone and UK G-Sibs are too big to fail because of their cross-border activities, Chinese G-Sibs because of their size
Sonia-Libor basis narrows after fallback verdict
Isda picks five-year median for spread adjustment, causing benchmark gap to tighten
Opening the buy-side liquidity pool
Vikash Rughani, business manager at triReduce and triBalance, outlines a new approach enabling buy- and sell-side participants to optimise the transition of legacy Libor over-the-counter swaps contracts to alternative reference rates
Capital issuance spree boosts Credit Suisse’s Tier 1 buffers
Contingent note sale pushes additional Tier 1 capital up 22%
At UBS, market risk charge falls following model updates
Market RWAs dropped on the quarter, even though risk levels increased
Cash burn drives UBS’s LCR lower in Q3
Swiss bank’s HQLA at lowest level since public disclosure began
Looking forward to backward‑looking rates
Interbank offered rates are critical in the world of contracts and derivatives, acting as reference rates in millions of financial contracts and with a total market exposure in the hundreds of trillions of dollars. Bloomberg explores why offering…
RNIV charges account for big chunk of Swiss banks’ capital
At UBS, 37.5% of its market risk capital requirement was for risks-not-in-VAR
Over three years, credit risk has built up at Swiss banks
Credit Suisse has also reduced the portion of its credit RWAs calculated using internal models
IRB approaches cover two-thirds of European bank credit risk
Share of risk-weighted assets calculated using internal models between 41% and 91% at the G-Sibs
US banks’ liquidity buffers thinnest among G-Sibs
Mean LCR of US banks hits 122.5% in Q1
Trading units of Swiss banks move in opposite directions
Over three years, Credit Suisse has cut RWAs allocated to trading 17%; UBS has increased them 46%
LCR surges at UBS as HQLA billows higher
Ratio of liquid assets to stressed cash outflows hits 154%
Higher op risk charge follows UBS tax fraud verdict
Clash with French courts adds $2.8 billion to op RWAs