Europe
Basel III risk-weight changes to tax European banks the most
Risk-weighting of IRB exposures to increase 2.8% overall
Keeping watch: EBA stress-testing head plans overhaul
Top-down approach, dynamic balance sheet and multiple shock scenarios all possible for 2022
Some eurozone banks have thin leverage capital buffers
Tier 1 capital surpluses above regulatory minimums range between 31% and 123%
Race to create term risk-free rates hots up
Markit joins term Sonia hopefuls; four providers release term €STR plans
Cultural appropriation: private equity goes quant
Machines are helping venerable shops find under-the-radar performers and factors that drive them
UK swaps carrot for stick in Libor switch
BoE committee mulls policy action, which could include capital hikes on Libor exposures
Capital cut for synthetic securitisations splits regulators
European rulemakers wary of diverging from Basel standards
Borrower default estimates continue to improve at EU banks in Q2
Greek corporate creditworthiness improves the most of 39-country sample quarter-on-quarter
Repo exposures pile up at BNP Paribas
French bank had €388 billion of repo exposures at end-June
Lloyds wins consent to flip £1bn covered bond to Sonia
The conversion, backed by 99.84% of bond holders, marks another milestone in the Libor transition
When climate risk starts to bite
Energy firms under increased pressure to assess physical climate risk
FCA official: stick with overnight rates for all new contracts
Schooling Latter limits term rates to legacy contracts and wants backward-looking method for loans
Fund fears linger over guidelines set to avert fire sales
Final Esma framework allays some European asset managers’ concerns
US clearing houses need not take collateral damage from Brexit
There are signs the US and EU will pull back from the brink in dispute over CCPs
EU banks pare own-country sovereign exposures
Banks held €1.76 trillion of domestic government bonds in Q2 2019, down from €1.91 trillion a year ago
Greece leads EU on cutting toxic loans in Q2
Non-performing loan ratio of Greek banks falls to 39.2% from 44.8% a year ago
ECB exposes LCR window-dressing
Banks use collateral swaps and term deposits to improve key liquidity ratios
EC official: supervisors must manage Brexit trading disruption
Trading obligations won’t change, but Mifid-style forbearance possible in event of disruption
Edwards leaves structuring role in UBS overhaul
Equity derivatives stalwart departs as part of equity, fixed income merger
On CCP oversight, US and EU may be closer than they appear
Competing proposals on foreign CCP oversight have more in common than recent rhetoric implies
Funding risk of global banks varies
Basel study shows European banks have seen net cash outflows increase just 7.7% in four years
Deutsche to sell exotic equity derivatives portfolio
Structured trades go on the block following last month's sale of flow and prime broking assets
In stress-test window-dressing, timing is everything
EBA and Fed stress tests would have to be in perfect sync to stamp out transatlantic arbitrage