UniCredit
Spanish, Italian big banks purged bad loans in 2019
Top lenders outclass their host banking systems on NPL ratios
UniCredit to liberate capital on Pillar 2 change
Bank targets 50% payout ratio
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
G-Sibs in US grow leverage exposures faster than EU rivals
HSBC saw exposures fall 2.81% in Q3
Five eurozone G-Sibs cut op RWAs in Q3
Deutsche Bank cut €5.7 billion quarter on quarter
Santander’s CVA charge up 15% in Q3
Other eurozone G-Sibs see their CVA requirements fall
UniCredit bolsters capital ratio on Fineco sale
Italian bank also offloaded Mediobanca stake
Eurozone G-Sibs’ modelled risk weights well below average
Six of eight systemic lenders have modelled risk weights lower than the G-Sib and European mean
Repo exposures pile up at BNP Paribas
French bank had €388 billion of repo exposures at end-June
Among G-Sibs, Japanese and US banks see LCRs improve most
US systemic banks’ liquidity coverage still lags behind other G-Sibs
Liquidity coverage of eurozone G-Sibs diverge in first half of 2019
BNP Paribas sees LCR drop 11.6 percentage points in H1 while Deutsche Bank’s climbs 7.3 percentage points
Over two years, UK G-Sibs levered up in contrast to EU peers
But UK CRR leverage ratios still higher than eurozone rivals
Credit risk grows share of big EU banks’ RWAs
Deutsche Bank leads the field, with credit RWAs increasing share of total by 294bp year-on-year
Risk density of US systemic banks trumps that of EU peers
Ratio of RWAs to leverage exposures averages 44.7% at US G-Sibs
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
‘Regulatory headwinds’ add €13bn to UniCredit’s RWAs
Frontloading of credit risk model guidelines saps CET1 ratio by 40bp
Eurozone G-Sibs’ op RWAs fall €8.1bn in Q1
Deutsche Bank led the charge with €6.4bn reduction
Corporate loan exposures weigh on EU banks
Risk density across EU G-Sibs stood at 93% for corporate loan exposures
SME loans more capital intensive for big eurozone banks
Corporate loans to smaller enterprises attract high risk weightings
Eurozone G-Sibs’ swaps notionals fall €9.6trn in 2018
Deutsche Bank’s portfolio shrinks 16% year-on-year
Level 3 assets at eurozone G-Sibs swell to €82bn in 2018
IFRS 9 likely contributor to first increase in Level 3 inventories since 2014
US banks’ liquidity buffers thinnest among G-Sibs
Mean LCR of US banks hits 122.5% in Q1