Switzerland
At UBS, asset cull drives down RWAs
Final quarter of 2019 saw risk-weighted assets fall $5.4 billion
Asia moves: Soc Gen replaces Asia chief, Deutsche Bank appoints wealth management head, and more
Latest job changes across the industry
Threats posed by systemic banks vary by region
Eurozone and UK G-Sibs are too big to fail because of their cross-border activities, Chinese G-Sibs because of their size
Sonia-Libor basis narrows after fallback verdict
Isda picks five-year median for spread adjustment, causing benchmark gap to tighten
Opening the buy-side liquidity pool
Vikash Rughani, business manager at triReduce and triBalance, outlines a new approach enabling buy- and sell-side participants to optimise the transition of legacy Libor over-the-counter swaps contracts to alternative reference rates
Capital issuance spree boosts Credit Suisse’s Tier 1 buffers
Contingent note sale pushes additional Tier 1 capital up 22%
At UBS, market risk charge falls following model updates
Market RWAs dropped on the quarter, even though risk levels increased
Cash burn drives UBS’s LCR lower in Q3
Swiss bank’s HQLA at lowest level since public disclosure began
Looking forward to backward‑looking rates
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RNIV charges account for big chunk of Swiss banks’ capital
At UBS, 37.5% of its market risk capital requirement was for risks-not-in-VAR
Over three years, credit risk has built up at Swiss banks
Credit Suisse has also reduced the portion of its credit RWAs calculated using internal models
IRB approaches cover two-thirds of European bank credit risk
Share of risk-weighted assets calculated using internal models between 41% and 91% at the G-Sibs
US banks’ liquidity buffers thinnest among G-Sibs
Mean LCR of US banks hits 122.5% in Q1
Trading units of Swiss banks move in opposite directions
Over three years, Credit Suisse has cut RWAs allocated to trading 17%; UBS has increased them 46%
LCR surges at UBS as HQLA billows higher
Ratio of liquid assets to stressed cash outflows hits 154%
Higher op risk charge follows UBS tax fraud verdict
Clash with French courts adds $2.8 billion to op RWAs
Loss provisions at Credit Suisse highest in three years
Provisions expand in Swiss, Asia-Pacific and global markets units
At Credit Suisse, RWAs leap over Sfr5 billion
Credit RWAs grew 4% due to a combination of model, accounting and regulatory changes
Swaps, repo grow share of G-Sib leverage exposures
On-balance sheet exposures shrink as a constituent of key regulatory measure
UBS hires Finma banks chief amid risk reorg
Schoch move comes after bank carves op risk and compliance unit out of central risk function
Swiss banks pared securitisation exposures in 2018
Credit Suisse cuts holdings 24%; UBS 80%
Shallow liquidity threatens Saron momentum
Swaps on Swiss Libor successor gain traction, but lack of cash products poses liquidity hurdle
End of an era: Credit Suisse dissolves resolution unit
The Swiss bank’s SRU reduced its total leverage exposure in 2018 to $30 billion – below the bank’s end-year target of $40 billion
A rush on Libor fallbacks to head off holdouts
Concerns that valuation changes will scare some off adoption may be accelerating Isda timeline