ING Group
Ion rival TransFICC gets cash boost
HSBC, ING join £5.75m investment round, amid claims of shrinking tech choice
Fed’s leverage ratio relief puts foreign banks on the back foot
European banks cannot – yet – exempt US Treasuries from their exposure measures
Countercyclical buffer releases may free €6bn at top EU banks
Banco Santander and BNP Paribas could free €1.1 billion each
Pandemic threatens Libor transition plans
Resources diverted to Covid-19 response, as RFR-Libor basis spikes on stress
Dealers turn to mid-cap and EM deal-contingent trades
Premiums of more than 25% are attractive to banks battling low vol and increasing competition
Model review adds €13bn to ING’s RWAs
Trim effects projected to raise CET1 requirement by at least €600m
G-Sibs in US grow leverage exposures faster than EU rivals
HSBC saw exposures fall 2.81% in Q3
Five eurozone G-Sibs cut op RWAs in Q3
Deutsche Bank cut €5.7 billion quarter on quarter
Santander’s CVA charge up 15% in Q3
Other eurozone G-Sibs see their CVA requirements fall
Climate risk-weighting: the devil and the deep blue sea
Should capital charges be calibrated to climate risk? European banks test the waters
People moves: CRO Landy takes helm at Brevan, SocGen names new Asia chief, Murray out at Bridgewater, and more
Latest job changes across the industry
ING confident of capital target despite headwinds
Countercyclical capital charges push minimum capital requirement higher
Eurozone G-Sibs’ modelled risk weights well below average
Six of eight systemic lenders have modelled risk weights lower than the G-Sib and European mean
Repo exposures pile up at BNP Paribas
French bank had €388 billion of repo exposures at end-June
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
Virtue bonds, Hong Kong FRTB and letting go of Lehman
The week on Risk.net, August 24–30, 2019
ING issues ESG-linked interest rate swap
Dutch bank takes carrot-and-stick approach on interest rate swap for oil and gas equipment firm
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