Europe
CVA charges concentrated among top banks in Europe
Crédit Agricole, Deutsche Bank, Barclays, Commerzbank and Societe Generale account for 31% of total CVA across 135 banks
EU benchmark drama set for cliffhanger end
Access to key FX rates due to be decided six months before potential cut-off
EU banks built up own-sovereign risks through Covid crisis
Italian, Spanish and French banks in particular saw holdings of domestic government debt surge
IFRS 9 relief added €30bn to EU bank capital post-Covid
Greek banks are top beneficiaries of emergency measures
Post-Covid crisis, EU banks have thin dollar liquidity buffers
Dollar LCRs declined between March and June
Mifid transparency battle pits dealers against non-banks
Dealers fight to preserve reporting exemptions, but prop traders want US-style regime
Markets search for FX factor as rates fall flat
Traders signal shift to currency strategies, but is it passing fad or permanent fixture?
Slow €STR swap take-up threatens term rate fallbacks
Esma’s Maijoor calls for greater use of new benchmark to help develop forward-looking rates
EU changes to Basel III would soften capital blow
“Parallel stacks” approach would reduce capital shortfall by 70%
Margin rules snare FX options users
US banks forced to post margin on ‘naked’ trades, with buy-side firms soon to follow
Banks in outer EU grew loan reserves most through Covid – EBA
Substantial differences found at country level on degree of coverage ratio build
Output floor to drive Basel III capital increase at EU banks
About 40% of total Tier 1 capital surge due to limits on modelled RWAs
Covid disrupted sale of bail-in bonds by EU banks
Top banking groups are short €146.5 billion of MREL-eligible instruments
Parallel lines: EU begins fight over Basel output floor
Leaked plan to exclude buffers from floor would please EU banks, could anger Basel and US
Wind-down of Deutsche’s ‘bad bank’ slows
German lender expects capital release unit to be €51 billion in size in 2022
People news: Yarian leaves HSBC, Goldman’s Lemkau joins MSD Partners, and more
Latest job changes across the industry
EU banks and state-backed loans: bad news with a long fuse
EU banks face a time bomb as public guarantee schemes expire next year
Intesa’s RWAs bloat on UBI merger
Credit risk-weighted assets increased 16% post-takeover
Direct clearing could solve CCP concentration risk
Allowing more clients to self-clear can reduce CCPs’ reliance on a few firms, says ex-Chicago Fed adviser
UK and EU diverge on contractual swap stays
UK scraps pre-resolution stays, while EU regulators could opt for even stricter measures
ECB certificates: a ready-made euro safe asset
The CMU must be backed by a stock of safe assets. The ECB can supply them, writes Daniel Hardy
Margin calls on insurers, pension funds stoked MMF rout – ECB
Dutch firms accounted for huge share of VM payments in March
HSBC exec: measure culture through smarter surveillance
Machine learning could help gauge positive sentiment from surveillance logs, says Elhedery
Buffer stops? Why banks haven’t used Covid capital relief
Amid weak credit demand, banks haven’t availed themselves of capital buffers, but they still might