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Fed’s leverage ratio relief puts foreign banks on the back foot
European banks cannot – yet – exempt US Treasuries from their exposure measures
PRA relief to save banks up to 33% on VAR-based charges
HSBC may benefit most from easing of capital rules
Dividend freeze could save top UK banks £6.5bn
HSBC will no longer distribute a cash dividend worth $3.1bn
UK banks’ RWAs plummeted in Q4 2019
Risk drop-off helped raise aggregate CET1 ratio
Libor webinar playback: spotlight on bonds
Panellists from Lloyds, RBC Capital Markets and TD Securities discuss efforts to switch to new lending benchmarks
UK bank ECL scenarios may lowball coronavirus impact
BoE offers IFRS 9 relief on virus-hit loans
Managing the cost of transition and the risk of delay
A forum of industry leaders, which includes sponsors of this report, discusses key industry concerns around the transition away from Libor, including the risks investors will face once the rate is discontinued and how to manage them, whether forward…
Countercyclical buffer relief to save top UK banks £7bn in capital
BoE expects £190 billion of lending to be supported by CCyB cut
LCRs of UK banks diverged in 2019
StanChart’s dropped 14 percentage points last year
Barclays used securitisations as credit risk shield in 2019
Risk-weighted assets for these exposures increased 44%
StanChart’s derivatives exposures climb 42% in 2019
UK bank’s leverage ratio falls 30 basis points year-on-year
UK bank market RWAs ebbed in 2019
HSBC shed $5.9 billion of market RWAs in 2019
De-risking efforts yet to boost profits at Lloyds
Commercial banking entity saw RWAs fall -11% in 2019
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
Lloyds plans £4bn Sonia shift for covered bond extension clause
Consent solicitation aims to flip one-year Libor-linked grace period on fixed instruments to RFR
Four UK banks improve resilience to stress tests compared with 2018
Aggregate CET1 capital ratio headroom over hurdle rate improves by 50 basis points
UK banks could withstand leveraged loan crisis
Losses projected to hit overall CET1 capital ratios by 40 basis points
At UK stress test banks, loan-loss estimates up £8bn in 2019
Impairments estimated to cut 5.7% off of the banks’ aggregate CET1 capital ratio
UK banks pass BoE stress tests
Dividend and AT1 bond coupon cuts needed to clear minimum requirements
StanChart’s CVA charge jumps 39% in Q3
CVA accounts for an ever-increasing portion of the bank’s total counterparty credit risk
UK bank LCRs fall again in Q3, led by StanChart
Buildup of net cash outflow amounts erode liquidity coverage ratios
IFRS 9 capital relief saves Lloyds £768m
Phase-in measures ameliorate CET1 hit of higher loan-loss provisions
Cat risk: why forecasting climate change is a disaster
Forecasters are poles apart on climate-driven catastrophes; insurers fear worse ahead
Nationwide and Lloyds win nod for Sonia bond switch
Covered bonds secure unanimous transition support, while first negative consent amendment passed