Bank of America
Continued decline of the one-stop shop
Dealer Rankings 2024: Only two banks make the top 10 across all rankings tables – others have focused on vertical dominance
Form an orderly QIS: hedge funds spur quant products to new heights
Rise of multi-strategy vehicles triggers demand for indexes once seen as competitors
Record number of US banks turned to riskless assets in Q1
Western Alliance leads pack with doubling of exposures in 0% bucket
The squeezing middle: data shows Europeans taking on US foes
Dealer Rankings 2024: Barclays, BNP Paribas and Deutsche grab bigger share of the pie
Citi tops second edition of Risk’s Dealer Rankings
Dealer Rankings 2024: Data shows five big US dealers still lead, but with Europeans closing in
MassMutual adds to mammoth interest rate swaps book
Counterparty Radar: Firm was responsible for 28% of US life insurers’ notional aggregate in Q4 2023
DVAs inflate US banks’ liabilities by $4.9bn
Credit spread retrenchment since last year’s crisis comes with flipside of larger structured-product liabilities
AOCI worsens across the board at US banks in Q1
JP Morgan, Wells Fargo and Citi hit hardest in trend reversal
BofA, PNC lead Q1 rise in non-performing CRE loans
Commercial real estate write-offs also increased, driven by office loans
BNY Mellon dips below Collins floor after surge in standardised RWAs
All nine US banks using internal models now bound by regulator-set approach
People: Isda taps four new directors, O’Callaghan joins CA, Berlinski quits Goldman, and more
Latest job changes across the industry
BlackRock’s interest rate swaps notional climbs 20%
Counterparty Radar: US retail funds continued to add to their positions in Q4
US systemic banks increase reliance on short-term funding in 2023
Contentious STWF metric weighs heavily on Morgan Stanley and Goldman G-Sib scores
US banks’ IRRBB transparency: one step forward, two steps back
A year on from the 2023 crisis, more lenders monitor EVE sensitivity, but full Basel-like disclosures remain the exception
BofA, Citi, JPM slash $18trn of derivatives in latest window dressing effort
Systemic indicator reduction in Q4 keeps lid on trio’s capital surcharges
Six US G-Sibs face higher surcharges under Fed’s proposals
Goldman and BNY Mellon only top banks to escape increase, analysis shows
JP Morgan leads US banks’ FX trading revenues
Only two dealers saw revenue growth through 2023 as Goldman Sachs reports 75% drop
US FCMs far apart on target residual interest levels
Dealers diverge widely in how much capital they deem necessary to cover customer fund shortfalls
Five US banks hit record leverage exposures
Ballooning balance sheets leave Goldman, Morgan Stanley with razor-thin SLR buffers
Latest FDIC special assessment tougher than 2009 version
Most US banks face higher toll under new methodology
US FCMs wrap up 2023 with required customer funds toeing record high
Wells Fargo, BNP Paribas marked new peaks in December
Mizuho’s life insurance swaptions notional climbs 575% in a year
Counterparty Radar: Prudential, Global Atlantic add substantially to positions in Q3 as market’s notional total grows to $184bn
Basel III endgame expected to push PNC’s RWAs up 3%
Forecast from US regional much tamer than increases expected by advanced-approach banks
Soured CRE loans pile up at BofA, Wells Fargo and PNC
Proportion of non-performing loans surges past the pandemic’s worst stretches