Risk Quantum/Federal Reserve
Fed shackles weigh on Wells Fargo
Total assets and risk-weighted assets down 3% on end-2017
FBOs get smaller, simpler and easier to resolve
Foreign bank IHCs have shrunk between 16% and 41% since Q3 2016
US banks pare reliance on unsecured funding
Average share of unsecured wholesale funding falls to 42% in a year
US life insurers switch to FHLB loans from Fabs
Borrowings from government-backed banks triple in 10 years
US banks bolster quality of short-term funding
Eight US G-Sibs increase share of total borrowings made up of well-collateralised repo
Basel and Fed G-Sib methods pose dual test to US banks
Different emphasis of rival frameworks could frustrate bank efforts to reduce systemic risk
BNPP, Credit Suisse, State Street incur VAR breaches
BNP Paribas capital multiplier increases on seventh breach in nine months
US G-Sibs cut $36bn of HQLA
Wells Fargo clears out $27 billion of HQLA in first nine months of 2017 alone
Fed finds more risk failings at FBOs than at US firms
FBOs attract hundreds more matters requiring attention than domestic banks
Four in 10 big banks fail Fed’s supervisory expectations
42.5% of largest banks branded less-than-satisfactory by RFI ratings
HQLA savings may hit $52bn for big three US regionals
US Bancorp could slash HQLAs by $24 billion if ratio is set at 70% for Category IIIs
Wells Fargo cuts $24 billion of RWAs
Optimisation efforts preserve capital ratio despite $14.5 billion of cash returns to shareholders
Swap books swell at big US banks despite lower risk profile
Total OTC derivatives notional among the eight banks is $222 trillion – a 2% increase on the quarter