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Swaps exposures of US G-Sibs dropped 12% in Q4
Net current credit exposures hit $474.8 billion by year-end
Rates trading revenues up 154% at top US banks
Net gains on interest rates-related exposures top $21 billion
Top banks’ US Treasury holdings up 26% in 2019
Fair value gains follow plummeting yields on government paper
Fewer losing trading days at top US banks in 2019
State Street posted most losing days in 2019, with 146
Capital buffers edge lower at systemic US banks in 2019
CET1 excess above institution-specific amounts slid 228bp at median G-Sib
Systemic US banks shed $70bn of repo exposure in Q4
Goldman Sachs lowered repo exposures 13% quarter-on-quarter
Fed could postpone stress buffer beyond CCAR – experts
Delays prompt speculation that new rules will only be known after stress-test results in June
Goldman, JPM kick off SOFR swaptions
US dealers spearhead non-linear trading but patchy liquidity weighs on vol market ambitions
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
FCMs’ required client margin up 29% in 2019
Citi still far and away the largest FCM
BNP leads a comeback for Europe’s clearers
Brexit, leverage ratio tweaks and concentration fears could help European banks compete with US FCMs
Custody battle: competing tensions put IM prep in jeopardy
Conflicting custody interests and delayed docs call IM phase five readiness into question
At US banks, CECL effects differ wildly
Truist bank sees reserves leap +150%; average increase is +50%
On share buybacks, BofA leads US banks with $28bn splurge
In total, US G-Sibs spend 28% more on own shares in 2019 than previous year
Bank disruptors: tread carefully and bend things
How BofA, SocGen, JP Morgan, Nomura, UBS and others are disrupting themselves
JP Morgan takes $2.7bn capital hit from CECL
Credit card portfolios see allowances for loan losses spike the most
When a lapse in concentration is no bad thing
Fortifying too-big-to-fail firms to withstand future crises could make the entire system more vulnerable
Trading’s share of EU bank income shrinks in Q3
French banks boasted highest share of income from trading, at 24%
Top 10 operational risk losses of 2019
Fraud, embezzlement, tax evasion, subprime (still) and rogue trading – and Citi crops up twice. Data by ORX News
Loosening ties, pt 2: how US G-Sibs cut intra-system liabilities
Citi and Goldman expelled huge amounts of deposits in Q4 2017
How US G-Sibs shrink down at year-end
Derivatives exposure reductions make up bulk of year-end savings
Loosening ties, pt 1: how US G-Sibs cut intra-system assets
Goldman Sachs reduced links with other financial firms the most in Q4 2018
Squeezed or saved? Market divided over year-end repo stress
Fears of a cash-crunch hang heavy despite Fed’s repo giveaway and move to term funding
G-Sibs in US grow leverage exposures faster than EU rivals
HSBC saw exposures fall 2.81% in Q3