Systemic risk
At US G-Sibs, 30-day funding still in vogue
Short-term funding is secured by higher-quality collateral than two years ago
Top banks’ trading books dwindled in 2018
Trading and available-for-sale assets dropped €160 billion year-on-year
Four US banks on cusp of higher systemic risk charges
JP Morgan on track for a 4% systemic risk add-on
Now less of a systemic risk, Deutsche wins capital relief
Prospective leverage ratio should fall to 3.75% after risk-cutting efforts
TD Bank added to too-big-to-fail list
The bank’s total exposures climbed 2.4% to €931 billion year-on-year
EBA’s Campa: reduce Pillar 2 charges to offset output floor
Bankers plead for smaller capital hit and more predictability on implementation of Basel III
Banks feel chill of exposure from Fed’s SCCL
US rules on counterparty credit limit pose challenges for risk and regulatory teams despite proposed delay, says expert
Structural snags frustrate STS for synthetics
Curbs on excess spread and collateral stymie route to ‘high-quality’ signifier
Keeping watch: EBA stress-testing head plans overhaul
Top-down approach, dynamic balance sheet and multiple shock scenarios all possible for 2022
Companies delay climate policy action at their peril
Failure to take immediate action on the proposals set out in the Paris Agreement on climate change could cost approximately $1.2 trillion over the next 15 years in policy risk costs. Oliver Marchand, co-founder of Carbon Delta and executive director of…
Measuring the systemic risk of China’s banking sector: an application of differential DebtRank
This paper investigates the systemic risk of China’s banking sector via network analysis and differential DebtRank from 2007 to 2016.
Fund fears linger over guidelines set to avert fire sales
Final Esma framework allays some European asset managers’ concerns
As too-big-to-fail banks shrink, non-systemic firms play catch up
Almost three-quarters of non-systemic banks have increased their G-Sib scores since 2013
Time for a (proper) G-Sib speeding ticket
Fed’s systemic risk assessment has become box-ticking exercise, and US banks are getting away with it
Risk density of US systemic banks trumps that of EU peers
Ratio of RWAs to leverage exposures averages 44.7% at US G-Sibs
US G-Sibs grow and multiply ties with other banks
Big eight banks grow by 1.5% in aggregate in Q2
Six US banks grow systemic footprints
BAML and Citi climb into higher G-Sib surcharge buckets
Cleared swaps surge $6.6trn at US G-Sibs in Q2
Cleared swaps accounted for 54% of G-Sib notionals in Q2
EU banks increase systemic footprint
Values used for seven of 12 systemic risk indicators climb year-on-year
Derivatives up $4.9trn at HSBC in H1
Swollen portfolio could push bank into higher G-Sib surcharge bucket
Gaps emerge in US plan to regulate non-bank systemic risk
Former regulators say FSOC may struggle to measure systemic risk in repo, loan markets
Non-banks muscle in on UK financing
Non-banks account for 51% of total financial sector assets
Default cascades and systemic risk on different interbank network topologies
This paper examines the relationship between the topology of interbank networks and their ability to propagate localized, idiosyncratic shocks across the banking sector via banks’ interbank claims on one another.
Ties between EU insurers and banks vary by country
Estonian, Cypriot and Swedish insurers most exposed to banking sector