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State Street launches tri-party custody for IM clients
Third-party provider begins shifting phase five clients to full-service collateral model
Phase five margin queues spur calls for custody revamp
Custodians urged to update “antiquated technology” ahead of three-fold jump in phase six initial margin onboarding
Currenex case may herald focus on e-FX’s ‘Wild West’ days
FX sources say “uncomfortable secrets” could emerge as attention turns to platform relationships
Systemic US banks’ bail-in buffers rose in Q2
Morgan Stanley posts largest amount of headroom, while Citi, State Street and Wells Fargo trail behind
Morgan Stanley bests Citi as top forwards shop for US funds
Counterparty Radar: A $30bn boost from Vanguard sends MS to top of Q2 charts
Off-balance-sheet exposures at US systemic banks jump $42bn
JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs and Citi drove the overall increase in the second quarter
Level 3 assets at global systemic banks down 36% since 2014
Hard-to-value holdings down sharply over the past six years, but pandemic threw spanner in the works at some banks
Majority of US G-Sibs’ assets attract sub-100% risk-weighting
Risk Quantum analysis shows top US banks retrenched to lower-risk assets through the pandemic
Currenex class action faces hurdles, say legal experts
Case could raise questions around statutes of limitations and damages calculations
State Street to become world’s largest custodian
Brown Brothers Harriman Investor Services acquisition means Boston-based bank will leapfrog BNY Mellon and JP Morgan
People moves: Credit Suisse senior shake-up, and more
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RWA density at Goldman drops to seven-year low
Change to the distribution of the bank’s exposures by risk weighting likely contributed to the reduction
Asia moves: LCH appoints new head of Asia, BNY Mellon picks treasury services chief, and more
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Citi leads US banks in shrinking market risk
First aggregate drop in capital charges stemming from market risk since mid-2020
JP Morgan flirts with VAR limits
Largest trading loss in Q2 reached 96% of bank’s VAR limit
Wells Fargo, Citi amass losing days in Q2
On average, the eight top US banks reported 32 loss-making days
End of SLR relief weighs on JP Morgan
All eight US systemic banks saw their supplementary leverage ratio drop in Q2
Custody banks add $6.5 trillion assets
BNY Mellon extended its lead over State Street and JP Morgan in the second quarter
Asia moves: HSBC makes raft of senior hires, Barclays appoints Singapore private banking head, and more
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Loan losses: Banks’ estimates out of sync with Fed’s
Wells Fargo worst performer in latest DFAST exercise
Morgan Stanley’s stress test estimate strays from Fed’s
Half of US systemic lenders lowball capital hits in DFAST 2021
At Citi, Goldman larger OTC swaps books drive up systemic risk scores
Increase in trading and available-for-sale securities bump systemic risk scores higher at BofA and JPM
Citi, Wells Fargo face higher stress capital buffer add-ons
Both G-Sibs are outliers, as Fed slaps on higher capital requirements following latest round of stress tests