Banks
Systemic banks’ leverage exposures gyrated over H1
Temporary relief measures held down growth of exposures at US, Swiss lenders
Regional US banks outpace giants on loan growth
Banks $3-10 billion grew 19% over Q2
VAR spasms heap market risk charges on EU G-Sibs
VAR-based charges increase 94% on end-2019
BNP Paribas again leads eurozone banks on repo exposures
French bank increased exposures 69% over the first six months of the year
Systemic US banks crushed cleared OTC notionals in Q2
Outstanding amounts fall 12% quarter-on-quarter
Covid credit outlooks for UK banks vary
Standard Chartered and HSBC have worst downside outlooks relative to their own base cases
US bank systemic risk indicators stay elevated through Q2
Increase in exposures, short-term wholesale funding bump systemic risk scores higher at some firms
Fed’s second round of stress tests to push banks’ limits
Worst-case scenario sees unemployment peak at 12.5%
One-fifth of SocGen’s securitisations have STS label
French bank held €7 billion of simple, transparent, standardised securitisations as of end-June
Banks’ cross-border exposures to shadow banks surged in Q1
Liabilities to NBFIs increased three times more than usual over Q1 2020
Change to risk-weight floor amps EU banks’ securitisation RWAs
BNP Paribas’ banking book securitisation RWAs increased 32% on end-2019
JP Morgan shook up market risk stress tests in Q2
Bank switched stressed VAR historical periods 60 times
Barclays led UK banks in growing CDS book through Covid shock
Dealer saw credit derivatives notionals balloon £58.1 billion over the first half
France, Germany lead EU on MREL debt sales
French banks account for 27% of total bail-in bond issuances
Credit Suisse, UBS counterparty exposures ballooned in Q2
Risk-weighted assets lagged surge in EAD
Fix to Fed stress test snafu lowers two banks’ capital charges
Goldman, Morgan Stanley see stress capital buffer cuts
UK banks’ rate swaps books continued to grow in Q2
Interest rate swap exposures hit £4.42 trillion
Swiss banks plumped liquidity buffers in Q2
Credit Suisse’s HQLA increases 26% quarter-on-quarter
UK banks’ swaps exposures to overseas firms edge lower
Total net derivatives assets fell 4% over three months to end-June
Eurozone securitisation dealmaking bounced back in Q2
Special purpose vehicles bought €19.2 billion of securitised bank loans in Q2
Big Five Canadian banks post C$6.6bn of loan-losses in Q3
PCLs fell 36% quarter-on-quarter
Model change erodes credit RWAs at TD
US retail loans have grown 23% in two years
Systemic eurozone banks expand cleared portfolios
BNP Paribas is an outlier, having ratcheted up bilateral trading since 2013
RBC’s VAR doubled in pursuit of trading windfall
Stressed VAR also surged as the bank switched stress periods