Systemic risk
Most G-Sib indicators hit all-time highs in tumultuous 2022
Trading volumes and payment activity among fastest-surging indicators
UBS, three Chinese banks face higher capital surcharges
Credit Suisse and UniCredit dropped from G-Sib list in latest systemic risk assessment
Industry fears backdoor thresholds in active accounts debate
Confidential papers suggest a compromise, but requirements seen as too ambiguous
Nickel odium: critics pan BoE role in LME meltdown
Last year’s nickel fiasco calls into question effectiveness of UK supervisory model – and of central bank’s part
Blaming open-end funds for liquidity shocks is closed thinking
Controversial proposals to overhaul how funds manage liquidity risk are based on a fallacy, writes Eric Pan
Citi, JP Morgan slash $3tn of OTC notionals in Q2
Trimming of cleared portfolios bucks trend across top US banks
Vendors under new scrutiny in CFTC due diligence push
Planned cyber resilience regime will force dealers to subject “critical” tech vendors to stricter audit
UBS leapfrogs global peers following Credit Suisse takeover
Swiss lender reports big increases in RWAs, leverage exposures and other key metrics
US systemic risk scores hit records at JPM, Citi and 5 others
Riskiness of top dealers inflated by fair-value securities and higher reliance on short-term funding
Rate of cleared OTC derivatives rises at European banks
Swedbank leads dealers in secular trend towards clearing space
European banks’ systemic indicators surged in 2022
Higher values for 10 of 14 systemic risk indicators could see capital surcharges increase later this year
Legal challenges loom for renewed US focus on Sifis
Lawyers say any FSOC attempt to designate systemic non-banks risks a repeat of MetLife case
JPM’s new EU arm is bloc’s 4th largest derivatives bank
Frankfurt-based dealer eclipsed homegrown G-Sibs in 2022 on several indicators
Industry aims to Fix patchy exchange outage comms
A Fix working group is hoping to standardise the way that venues communicate with the sell side when tech glitches strike
Banks call for direct oversight of cloud providers by US regulators
Tri-opoly of cloud vendors “poses systemic risk” to financial sector, say risk managers
Goldman most threatened by Fed’s rejig of modelled capital charges
End of credit risk modelling and scaling up of SCB’s role could tip six US banks below minimum requirements
JP Morgan only bank set to benefit from Fed’s G-Sib review
Proposal to reduce ‘cliff effects’ would generate 10bp surcharge relief while four peers face higher requirements
AOCI reinclusion would push 10 US banks below capital requirements
KeyCorp, Truist and UBS Americas the worst affected by removal of paper-loss waiver
Nine US banks could be caught by Fed’s revised market risk rule
Expansion of trading risk charges to banks above $100bn in assets would also affect firms with minimal trading activity
Banks fear G-Sib tweak will increase capital volatility
Fed proposal would raise capital surcharge in 10bp increments
‘The nature of stress propagation has changed’
Leverage begets leverage, says BIS research chief Hyun Song Shin
US banks rue missed opportunity to reform G-Sib surcharge
As method 2 drifts away from Basel, critics fear comparability and competitiveness will suffer
US G-Sibs face higher add-ons in Barr’s surcharge framework review
Fed vice-chair proposal to reduce ‘cliff effects’ could add between 40bp and 10bp to capital requirements
Goldman could face higher capital charge under Barr proposal
Plans to prevent G-Sib score window dressing would penalise all US systemic banks bar Citi