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US banks held record $78bn in equity collateral before market crash
Stocks made up 11% of dealers’ OTC derivatives collateral at end-2024 – highest ever reported
LCH expects to boost deliverable FX clearing with new adds
Onboarding of dealers and link-up with CLS could swell interbank deliverable FX clearing volumes
JPM’s AFS holdings surge $72bn amid doubling unrealised losses
AOCI falls to its lowest in a year despite rate cuts
US banks return to MBSs amid value recovery
Bank of America and Wells Fargo ramp up AFS holdings in the third quarter
AFS Treasury holdings surge $67bn at US banks in Q3
JP Morgan leads growth, while Citi and Wells Fargo cut back
JPM, PNC bolster available-for-sale portfolios in Q3
Four major US banks add $119bn to AFS holdings
SocGen closest to TLAC minimum among G-Sibs
Gap between bail-in funds and required amounts narrows at Canadian lenders; Wells Fargo buffer smallest in US
Required swaps margin surged at three US FCMs in volatile August
Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo and BofA hoovered up $5.5bn in client margin over first half of last month
Cashflow volatility lowest in four years at big US banks
Maturity mismatch add-ons ease up, but BNY Mellon, Goldman, Morgan Stanley and State Street buck trend in Q2
US G-Sibs’ SLR exposures top record for second consecutive quarter
Aggregate leverage exposures up $455 billion in H1
US banks endure climb in charge-off rates
Write-offs spread from consumer and CRE portfolios to other corporate lending
US banks’ stress test accuracy worsens in DFAST 2024
Gap between Fed’s and large dealers’ projections widens to six-year high
DB USA’s stress test estimate deviates from Fed’s by record amount
US unit of German bank underestimated capital and leverage hit in latest DFAST
JP Morgan sails through DFAST with 200% AOCI reversal
Only major dealer to turn mark-to-market losses into gain in simulated recession
Eleven banks fall below buffer requirements in latest DFAST
Goldman Sachs worst performer among 31 participating banks, with 450bp gap between stressed CET1 ratio and all-in capital requirements
US systemic banks’ use of STWF hits record high
BofA, Citi, Goldman and JP Morgan hit new peaks
Pimco doubles down on FX forwards trades in Q1
Counterparty Radar: Pimco accounted for nearly 60% of all notionals added by mutual funds
Trading and AFS securities hit record high at US G-Sibs
Rebounding fair values and appetite for trading inflate indicator used in annual G-Sib assessment
Continued decline of the one-stop shop
Dealer Rankings 2024: Only two banks make the top 10 across all rankings tables – others have focused on vertical dominance
Often fluid. Not always liquid
Dealer Rankings 2024: On the buy side and the sell side, the make-up and depth of OTC mini-markets can change rapidly
Record number of US banks turned to riskless assets in Q1
Western Alliance leads pack with doubling of exposures in 0% bucket