Lloyds Banking Group
Lloyds lightens 2020 ECL forecast, but projects a gloomier 2021
UK banks expects full-year loan-loss amounts to come hit lower end of £4.5 billion–5.5 billion range
Which EU banks hold the most loans subject to Covid relief?
UK lender Lloyds had 13% of its loan book under payment moratoria as of June 30
Covid credit outlooks for UK banks vary
Standard Chartered and HSBC have worst downside outlooks relative to their own base cases
Friary deal clears path for Sonia switch revival
Consent solicitation for Libor-linked pass-through notes is first transition test for variable-duration instruments
Barclays led UK banks in growing CDS book through Covid shock
Dealer saw credit derivatives notionals balloon £58.1 billion over the first half
Virus volatility swelled CVA charges at Barclays, NatWest in H1
PRA capital relief for market risk eased the CVA burden at some lenders
Dark Covid outlook pumps up Lloyds’ loan-loss reserves
Base case for 2020 now projects UK GDP to drop 10%
Prudential filters crimp some banks’ own funds, boost others
Two banks saw CET1 climb more than 5% at end-2019 through the EU’s valuation adjustments
Counterparty risk capital charges up 20% at top UK banks
StanChart CCR capital requirement jumps 41% over the first quarter
UK banks eye Pillar 2 savings after PRA intervention
Top lenders could free £4.4 billion of capital
New securitisation rules weigh on UK banks
HSBC sees capital charge increase 41% quarter-on-quarter
UK banks put £7.6bn aside for credit losses in Q1
Impairment charges were roughly double aggregate net profits at top lenders
Bleak macro view pushes Lloyds’ ECL over £5bn
Anticipated loan losses for commercial loans up 39% on end-2019
Lloyds and Riverside rehitch revolving loan to Sonia
£100m Sonia facility overcame late operational hurdles to be among the first done since the onset of coronavirus
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%