Data
Client margin for swaps drops to virtually zero at Credit Suisse
Required funds posted to the bank’s US clearing unit totalled $12 at end-2022
Uncleared, unrated CDS notionals boomed in H1 2022
Non-cleared trades up 21% in six months and 14% in twelve, BIS data shows
Client margin for swaps hits new record at four FCMs
Required funds at all-time high at BofA, Goldman, JP Morgan and Barclays in November as market turbulence persists
Shadow banks grew net repo claims to record $2.1trn in 2021 – FSB
Non-bank intermediaries, led by money market funds, tapped Fed’s reverse repo window as rates began their ascent
ECB ratchets up Pillar 2 charges across top lenders
UniCredit, BNP Paribas, SEB and Swedbank worst-hit in latest SREP round
FSB: third of climate stress tests not tackling physical risk
Six jurisdictions conducted exercises only for transition risk
CME revises estimated worst-case payment obligation
IRS and F&O clearing units both subject to revision in Q3
Merrill Lynch hoovered up $1.5bn of client margin in October
Required funds for F&O rose 66%, bucking trend across major FCMs
F-IRB captured more of EU banks’ credit risk in H1
Gains mostly accrued from bank-modelled A-IRB portfolios
Rifts widen across EU banks’ trading results
Largest fair-value hits from HFT assets moved further from median in H1
UK banks’ CVA charges ballooned by £8bn in volatile Q3
Bank of England figures show capital requirements at highest since early pandemic readings
Liquidity risk at OCC up 34% in Q3
Internal stress-testing of a clearing member’s portfolio triggered upward revision
Ice Europe made $7.8bn VM call in Q3
Highest cash call on record triggered by higher commodity prices as Europe energy crisis persists
Client margin up 4% at Barclays’ swaps clearing unit
US unit of UK bank became sixth FCM by share in October
IM at Eurex Clearing’s IRS unit rose again in Q3
Heightened market volatility behind latest increase to record high €50.7bn
US banks’ loss-to-VAR ratios fell in Q3
Largest daily trading losses were on average 84% of forecast, compared with 105% in Q2
Standardised market charges rose faster at IMA users in H1
Market convulsions and structural FX hedge crackdown felt less acutely at SA-only banks, finds EBA data
Savers and funds grabbed MBSs as banks and Fed retreated
Central banks and commercial lenders became net sellers of bundled mortgages as rates rose, says BIS
BMO suffers C$10bn capital floor bite
Charges to constraint-modelled RWAs rose sixfold during Q3
OTC clearing rebounded at G-Sibs in 2021
Trend reverses as bilateral settlement of OTC derivatives loses previous year’s gains
CBA sheds last $6.2bn of Apra’s op RWA add-on
Punitive charge was imposed in 2018 in wake of inquiry into bank’s practices
Japan dealers’ derivatives exposures keep inflating
MUFG, SMFG and SMTH added almost ¥6 trillion to their balance sheets in the three months to end-September
Liquidity pool at FICC’s government securities unit shrank 49%
Clearing unit did not disclose any highly marketable collateral and repo values of underlying securities as part of available liquidity buffer in Q3
Handful of EU banks reap benefits from domestic exposure carve-out
BNP Paribas, ING Bank and UniCredit account for more than three-fourths of G-Sib score savings from favourable intra-EU risk calculation