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Danske shrinks CVA capital charges 44% after hedge revamp

Credit protection buying spree helps cut capital requirements to lowest level since 2014

Danske Bank curbed its credit valuation adjustment (CVA) capital requirements to their lowest level on record in Q2, reshuffling hedges six months into operating under final Basel III rules.

CVA risk-weighted assets (RWAs) fell 43.6% to Dkr2 billion ($228.7 million), a decline the bank attributed to “hedge optimisation”. It marked the lightest capital requirement since Danske began capitalising

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