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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
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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
Credit impairment charge up 22% at StanChart
Higher provisions taken, even as number of stage three loans drops
Singapore banks tighten ML governance amid regulatory scrutiny
DBS, StanChart and Deutsche build model inventories and draw up standards around use cases
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
EU banks pare back commodities risk
Risk-weighted assets for commodities trading positions under standardised approach fall almost 30%
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
G-Sibs in US grow leverage exposures faster than EU rivals
HSBC saw exposures fall 2.81% in Q3
Asia lenders usher in year of the virtual bank
The surge in online banking is informing risk technologies in traditional banks
G-Sibs eye simpler market risk calculations in Hong Kong
HKMA may need to ease rules on NMRFs to incentivise use of internal models
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
HK-China blockchain link tipped to boost trade finance
HSBC, StanChart and Bank of China welcome Hong Kong and China trade finance tie-up
Asia moves: HSBC hires Singapore liquidity chief, StanChart picks Asean head, and more
Latest job changes across industry
Top UK banks cut CVA charges by 9% in Q2
Standard Chartered is only outlier among big five to see capital requirement rise