Articles by Lorenzo Migliorato
BofA, JPM hoover up $104bn of US Treasuries in Q1
As Fed’s first rate cut nears, banks revamp their AFS holdings
RBC’s CVA capital charge up 22% since FRTB adoption
Bank eschewed revised standardised approach in favour of simpler yet constraining formulas
Norinchukin hit with 54% rise in op RWAs
Recalibration of underlying parameters is first under new standardised measurement approach
Santander USA cuts market risk charges by 16%
Trading risk consolidation under IHC inflates VAR charges, nets cut to total requirements
Credit Suisse USA posts trading loss for 288% of VAR
Swiss bank’s subsidiary one of only three US dealers to incur backtesting exception in Q1
Japanese banks far apart on credit model efficiency under Basel III
MUFG lowered credit and CCR charges the most among country’s top dealers
JP Morgan SE allocates €318m for structural credit spread risk
Bank’s EU arm among first to disclose figure following EBA’s diktat on more granular monitoring of CSRBB
Schwab’s short-term funding strategy shifts to secured borrowing post-2023 scare
Dealer cut unsecured borrowing and brokered deposits in favour of collateralised financing
Japanese banks reap ¥9trn RWA savings from FRTB switch
Tokyo’s dealers fare better than overseas rivals on new CVA and market risk approaches
US MMFs’ cleared repos top half-a-trillion dollars
FICC-routed transactions increased 52% in the 12 months to April
Lloyds’ standardised market risk charges tripled in Q1
Hedging-related setback pushes market RWAs to an all-time high
NYCB turns to repos, discount window in cash-hoarding push
Bank had previously supplemented funding needs almost exclusively with FHLB advances
HSBC, StanChart SVAR charges hit multi-year highs
Stressed trading-loss measure makes up 43% of banks’ modelled market risk charges
DVAs inflate US banks’ liabilities by $4.9bn
Credit spread retrenchment since last year’s crisis comes with flipside of larger structured-product liabilities
NYCB doubles down on borrowing as deposits keep ebbing
Wholesale funding made up a third of the bank’s interest expense in Q1
Republic First’s securities portfolio lost over $400m in 2024
Fair-value losses on non-agency RMBS holdings accelerated as rate cut expectations dimmed
End of BTFP curtails Comerica’s contingent funding pool
Decision not to take avail of facility’s paper-loss amnesty showcases US regional banks’ conundrum
One-tenth of US banks exceed CRE concentration thresholds
US supervisors face operational challenge with constellation of 536 lenders above risk benchmarks at end-2023
Northern Trust buys $2.4bn of US Treasuries as rate-cut prospects rise
Additions to the 5–10 year portion of AFS book have been, for now, swapped to SOFR
HSBC, Intesa incorporate 2022–23 downturn into SVAR models
Turbulent past two years implied to be worse than GFC in stressed simulations
EBA’s correlated currencies shake-up raises EU banks’ charges
Capital requirements for FX risk double after EUR/USD and other 196 pairs deemed no longer in sync
US banks’ non-core funding dependence ratio jumped in 2023
BHCs’ aggregate figure almost doubled to post-pandemic high last year
EU banks’ incremental risk charges soared in volatile H2
Charge for traded-bond default and downgrade risk hit 10-year high at BNP Paribas
Smaller US banks hold over half of CRE loans
Lenders under $50bn in assets reported record $1.7 trillion of exposures at end-2023