Bank of England (BoE)
PRA relief to save banks up to 33% on VAR-based charges
HSBC may benefit most from easing of capital rules
UK banks’ RWAs plummeted in Q4 2019
Risk drop-off helped raise aggregate CET1 ratio
Japan banks seize on US dollar funding
Daily facilities drawn upon extensively this week
UK bank ECL scenarios may lowball coronavirus impact
BoE offers IFRS 9 relief on virus-hit loans
Fed defies coronavirus to push ahead with stress test
US diverges from Europe and forces banks to juggle CCAR with real-life operational burden
Banks rush to tap new dollar liquidity facilities
ECB saw strongest demand: $75.8 billion out of the new 12-week programme
Six countries slash countercyclical buffers
Sweden reduces its buffer the most, to zero from 2.5%
Central banks activate contingency plans amid pandemic
Rotating and remote team working aims to reduce contagion risk
Pandemic threatens Libor transition plans
Resources diverted to Covid-19 response, as RFR-Libor basis spikes on stress
Countercyclical buffer relief to save top UK banks £7bn in capital
BoE expects £190 billion of lending to be supported by CCyB cut
FCA consults on new climate risk disclosures
Push would stop short of compulsory reporting
Why bankers should embrace the Brexit political theatre
Treating equivalence as purely technical might not have the outcome that financial firms want
Sonia swaps surge not mirrored by futures
Popularity of short sterling futures takes shine off Sonia’s RFR succession
BoE’s new Sonia index gets a thumbs-up from issuers
Calculating coupons based on compounded Sonia was “a real nightmare” for some
BoE to publish ‘golden source’ compounded Sonia index in July
UK to align with US in effort eliminate interest calculation mismatches and turbo-charge adoption
‘Rounding errors’ prompt EBRD to break with Sonia FRN norms
Index-friendly coupon structure touted as a template for future issuance in the UK market
PRA’s Woods: ending capital deductions for IT is ‘dubious’
Regulator signals potential divergence between UK and EU capital rules after Brexit transition
Fast-track SOFR term rate, says JP Morgan’s Pluta
Traders divided on whether liquidity in SOFR futures is sufficient to support a forward rate
Libor limbo: loan market fallback language upends lenders
Banks seek to replace painful fallback language in loan docs and avoid a cost-of-funds contingency
Show don’t tell: BoE’s climate stress test dilemma
Making the test easier to run could come at the expense of building risk management capacity
Aberdeen head of structured solutions departs
De Roeck considering Libor discontinuation consultancy launch
Giant £174bn Sonia swaps trading day may be biggest ever
Mammoth swaps focus on upcoming announcements from the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee
Swap books swell at UK banks in Q3
Gross derivatives assets with non-bank financial firms up 39%