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European banks adjust capital mix
Additional Tier 1 totals climb, CET1 and Tier 2 dips
Legal charges topped £6 billion at UK banks in 2018
Majority of costs relate to legacy issues, including PPI and RMBS mis-selling
PRA's Pillar 2 add-ons reflect mixed verdict on UK banks
Median CET1 Pillar 2A charge for big six banks rises to 2.25%
Escalating global threats make for harsher BoE stress test
World GDP assumed to contract 2.6% in 2019 scenario
Execution issues dominate UK bank op risk losses
This category of risk accounted for 47% of op risk losses on average at five banks
UK quant academics fear Brexit brain drain
Brexit hitting graduate jobs, funding and “driving European academics away from the UK”, say universities
Santander tames its trading risk
Group value-at-risk falls 40% in 2018
BNPP leads big EU banks in growing IRB exposures
French bank adds €25 billion of modelled exposures in third quarter
ING reaps third-quarter CVA capital savings
Intesa and Caixabank also see CVA charges decline
UK bank misconduct charges dwindle
Six of seven stress-tested banks report 50% fall in legal and regulatory reserves
Cross-border risks drive European G-Sib scores
Basel method shows cross-jurisdictional activity makes up 30.8% of banks’ total G-Sib scores
Market risk drops €5 billion at big EU banks, reversing trend
Banco Santander posts largest reduction of group, with market RWAs falling €2.2 billion
Barclays and Lloyds improve resilience to stress tests, HSBC falls back
Capital headroom above pass/fail thresholds increases to 250bp at lenders
IFRS 9 transition eases UK banks’ path through stress tests
Aggregate CET1 ratio 130bp lower without transitional relief
LCRs show US banks run more risk than European peers
The gap between the two averages has widened over the past three quarters to 250bp from 212bp
EU G-Sibs cut $14 billion in op risk
Banco Santander posted the largest decline – at 7% – with op RWAs falling to $70 billion
Santander loan-loss reserves eat into profits
Group-wide provisions pushed higher by the bank's US unit, which saw loan-loss reserves leap 44% to €649m over the quarter
Loan losses bedevil Lloyds in EU stress tests
UK bank saw largest CET1 decline due to asset impairment of EU-wide sample
European credit model outputs vary wildly
Risk densities range widely and out-of-sync with average probabilities of default
Corporate loan RWAs doubled by standardised approach
RWA densities for corporate loans under standardised approach stand at 94%, for A-IRB just 43%
Deutsche Bank's risky corporate loan pile towers over peers
German lender has one-quarter of all high-risk corporate loans reported by EU big banks
SRB should publish banks’ MREL requirements, says Enria
But market abuse rules need amending to avoid SRB disclosing confidential resolution actions
Standardised market RWAs on the rise at EU banks
Standardised approach-generated RWAs increase €4.7 billion across 12 banks
EU bank leverage increases in H1
Average leverage ratios degrade 19 basis points in six months to June