Lloyds Banking Group
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
UK financials pilot £4bn Sonia bond switch
Lloyds, Santander UK and Nationwide follow ABP with legacy bond transition
Lloyds’ counterparty credit risk charge rises £60m in Q3
Charge for mark-to-market changes to derivatives increases 10%
Lloyds wins consent to flip £1bn covered bond to Sonia
The conversion, backed by 99.84% of bondholders, marks another milestone in the Libor transition
People moves: ING fills two top roles, RBS confirms Rose as CEO, and more
Latest job changes across the industry
Top UK banks cut CVA charges by 9% in Q2
Standard Chartered is only outlier among big five to see capital requirement rise
Higher retained earnings boost Barclays, Lloyds and RBS capital
Barclays and RBS legally transferred share premium account balances to retained earnings over last two years
RNIV charges account for big chunk of Swiss banks’ capital
At UBS, 37.5% of its market risk capital requirement was for risks-not-in-VAR
UK bank LCRs drifted lower in Q2
HSBC saw group-level LCR decline as it reorganised its capital stack
UK leverage ratios edge lower as regulatory minimums climb
Additional leverage buffers raise minimum required ratios well above 3.25% floor
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
Barclays seeks op risk capital relief
Bank claims that lifting of capital floor would raise CET1 ratio roughly 60 basis points
PPI claims take bite out of Lloyds’ capital
Bank says it received average of 150,000 PPI information requests per week in Q2
UK banks shun short-term funding
Flighty sources of cash make up less than 4% of UK bank balance sheets
‘Bad banks’ through the ages
How Deutsche Bank’s latest resolution unit stacks up
Basel’s unlikely victim: venture capital
Changes to credit risk framework could block alternative path for EU banks to finance SMEs
A helping hand – Addressing industry concerns
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s final revisions to the FRTB guidelines aim to address industry concerns around complexity and capital implications. A forum of industry leaders discusses whether the changes have been effective and how banks…
Savings vary for UK banks under BoE leverage ratio
RBS deducted £80 billion of leverage exposure under UK-specific rule at end-March
UK systemic risk buffer capital cost over £7bn
The Bank of England set the buffer amounts on May 1
Top UK banks' CVA charges up 10% in Q1
Barclays' and Standard Chartered's requirements increase over 20% each