Risk Quantum/European Banking Authority (EBA)
Many EU banks’ sovereign portfolios highly concentrated
Forty-eight lenders have more than three-quarters of sovereign risk allocated to home country
Bond trading dominates EU bank market risk
Traded debt position risk accounts for 60% of market risk capital requirements
Nordic banks shoulder weightiest capital buffers in EU
DNB Bank has 9.10% combined buffer, the largest of stress-tested banks
Two stress tests give conflicting verdicts on UK banks
Under the BoE’s severe stress scenario, the average drop to UK banks’ CET1 capital ratios was 740bp, compared with 570bp under the EBA’s adverse scenario
EU banks most exposed to French, German, US sovereign risk
French bonds make up 17% of all EU bank sovereign exposures
IFRS 9 hits standardised banks harder than IRB peers
Capital wallop over eight times greater for SA banks than IRB
Italian banks hold most of Europe's loan reserves – EBA
Italy accounts for €84 billion of stage 3 allowances alone
Brexit may spur higher op risk losses – EBA
Largest five op risk losses in 2018 cost equivalent of 2.1% of EU bank's average CET1
French banks loaded with Italian risk
Six French dealers hold €47 billion of sovereign exposures
Loan losses bedevil Lloyds in EU stress tests
UK bank saw largest CET1 decline due to asset impairment of EU-wide sample
Capital sharing caps hit over half of EU stress test banks
Capital conservation measure saves 25 banks €52 billion over stress-test period
Intesa Sanpaolo continues battle against bad loans
The ratio of NPLs to total exposures dropped to 4.5% at end-September