Banks
CaixaBank credit risk blitz drives 22% drop in loss reserves
Allowances taken from Q2 earnings fall to just €81 million
Global bank equity levels return to growth
US lenders made up 28% of global bank shareholder equity
Global cross-border lending accelerates
Lending growth to offshore centres surges to 5.3%
Lower interest rate risk pushes Santander’s VAR down 16%
South American portfolio accounts for largest chunk of trading risk
Darker credit forecast forces Deutsche’s PCLs up to €161m
Provisions for credit losses rise from €94m in the year-ago quarter
As revamp begins, Deutsche’s RWAs for CVA fall
Credit valuation adjustment RWAs down 30% year-on-year
Model refinements slim UBS market risk RWAs
The bank’s market RWAs fell to $10.9 billion at end-June
UBS's LCR drops 5% on higher funding consumption
The bank reported HQLA of $176 billion, down from $186 billion in Q1
US Bancorp slashes bad assets 5% in Q2
Total amount of toxic assets stood at $953 million at end-June
Capital One shrinks credit-loss provisions by 21%
Provisions in Q2 2019 took 23% bite out of the bank's $5.7 billion revenues
State Street falls behind in the custody assets race
The gap between BNY Mellon and State Street rose to $2.8 trillion at end-June
Morgan Stanley’s RWAs skip higher as lending grows
Loans in the institutional securities and wealth management units rose 3% and 4% quarter-on-quarter
Danske’s profits drop 22% as impairment charges surge
Corporates & institutions unit incurred loan impairments of DKK520 million
Nordea’s CVA charge drops 34%
CVA requirements are at their lowest level since Q3 2018
PNC drains Fed account for buying spree
Future cut to LCR could lead to further withdrawals
Capital issue boosts BofA’s AT1 capital by 11%
The bank issued two slugs of perpetual preferred stocks in Q2 2019
Goldman Sachs builds legal reserves
Bank raises estimate of potential losses to $2.5 billion
Mortgages, auto loans find a home in new EU securitisations
Esma listed 23 public STS securitisations as of July 1
JP Morgan equity VAR surges 56%
Total trading VAR stood at $44 million for Q2
Citi loan-loss provisions build to $2.1bn
Credit reserve ramp up pushes PLLs higher
EBA data reveals disparities in LCR deposit-bucketing
Regulatory arbitrage concerns surface over classification of non-operational deposits
EU stress tests not as tough as financial crisis
Projected GDP decline for Spain, Ireland and Italy milder than during the credit crunch
UK bank RWAs inch up on credit and counterparty risk
Total RWAs stable year-on-year
Fed stress test AOCI wallop softens in 2019
Fourteen participants see projected capital drain due to unrealised losses drop 63% year-on-year