Articles by Alessandro Aimone
Derivatives up $4.9trn at HSBC in H1
Swollen portfolio could push bank into higher G-Sib surcharge bucket
Saudi bank merger lowers RBS’s credit RWAs
Standardised credit RWAs fall 23% quarter-on-quarter
Restructure boosts SocGen’s capital and liquidity ratios
CET ratio hits 12%; LCR 134%
VAR breaches force capital add-on at StanChart
Value-at-risk capital requirement soars 38% to $161.8 million quarter-on-quarter
PPI claims take bite out of Lloyds’ capital
Bank says it received average of 150,000 PPI information requests per week in Q2
Credit Suisse’s credit loss provisions fall 69% in Q2
Cash put aside to cover defaults and soured loans lowest for three years
BNPP’s VAR sinks on prop trading exit, calmer markets
Risk of loss down 17% quarter-on-quarter
Soured loans tick up at EU banks in Q1
Total stock of NPLs hits €663 billion
CaixaBank credit risk blitz drives 22% drop in loss reserves
Allowances taken from Q2 earnings fall to just €81 million
Global bank equity levels return to growth
US lenders made up 28% of global bank shareholder equity
Global cross-border lending accelerates
Lending growth to offshore centres surges to 5.3%
Lower interest rate risk pushes Santander’s VAR down 16%
South American portfolio accounts for largest chunk of trading risk
Darker credit forecast forces Deutsche’s PCLs up to €161m
Provisions for credit losses rise from €94m in the year-ago quarter
As revamp begins, Deutsche’s RWAs for CVA fall
Credit valuation adjustment RWAs down 30% year-on-year
Model refinements slim UBS market risk RWAs
The bank’s market RWAs fell to $10.9 billion at end-June
UBS's LCR drops 5% on higher funding consumption
The bank reported HQLA of $176 billion, down from $186 billion in Q1
US Bancorp slashes bad assets 5% in Q2
Total amount of toxic assets stood at $953 million at end-June
Capital One shrinks credit-loss provisions by 21%
Provisions in Q2 2019 took 23% bite out of the bank's $5.7 billion revenues
State Street falls behind in the custody assets race
The gap between BNY Mellon and State Street rose to $2.8 trillion at end-June
Morgan Stanley’s RWAs skip higher as lending grows
Loans in the institutional securities and wealth management units rose 3% and 4% quarter-on-quarter
Danske’s profits drop 22% as impairment charges surge
Corporates & institutions unit incurred loan impairments of DKK520 million
Nordea’s CVA charge drops 34%
CVA requirements are at their lowest level since Q3 2018
Capital issue boosts BofA’s AT1 capital by 11%
The bank issued two slugs of perpetual preferred stocks in Q2 2019
Goldman Sachs builds legal reserves
Bank raises estimate of potential losses to $2.5 billion