Risk Quantum/Santander
Repo exposures pile up at BNP Paribas
French bank had €388 billion of repo exposures at end-June
BNY, UBS paid over 10% for Fed funds and repo in Q2
The average cost of Fed funds purchased and repo rose to 4.32% in Q2 from 2.41% a year ago
Among G-Sibs, Japanese and US banks see LCRs improve most
US systemic banks’ liquidity coverage still lags behind other G-Sibs
Liquidity coverage of eurozone G-Sibs diverge in first half of 2019
BNP Paribas sees LCR drop 11.6 percentage points in H1 while Deutsche Bank’s climbs 7.3 percentage points
Over two years, UK G-Sibs levered up in contrast to EU peers
But UK CRR leverage ratios still higher than eurozone rivals
Credit risk grows share of big EU banks’ RWAs
Deutsche Bank leads the field, with credit RWAs increasing share of total by 294bp year-on-year
Risk density of US systemic banks trumps that of EU peers
Ratio of RWAs to leverage exposures averages 44.7% at US G-Sibs
EU banks increase systemic footprint
Values used for seven of 12 systemic risk indicators climb year-on-year
UK banks added OTC notionals in 2018 as EU peers cut back
Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds, Standard Chartered increased notionals by almost €15 trillion
Big EU banks’ Level 3 assets up 25% in 2018
Hard-to-value assets rise €35 billion year-on-year
Lower interest rate risk pushes Santander’s VAR down 16%
South American portfolio accounts for largest chunk of trading risk
UK banks shun short-term funding
Flighty sources of cash make up less than 4% of UK bank balance sheets