Balance sheet
IFRS 17 Special report 2019
The insurance industry has long been vocal about the need for a two-year extension to the International Accounting Standards Board’s (IASB’s) proposed 2021 implementation date for International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) 17 – the accounting…
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The complexity of derivatives pricing has grown significantly in the past decade, with banks having to factor in a series of valuation adjustments to calculate the impact on their balance sheets. With budgets and resources under pressure, and traditional…
Citi, State Street grow off-balance sheet exposures
Big US banks add $11 billion in exposures during Q3
China’s caution on compression stretches global banks’ risk limits
Systems lags and lack of capital pressure blamed for apathy on swaps compression
Off-balance sheet items up $28 billion at US G-Sibs
Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs grow exposures 4.3% and 3.8%, respectively
Goldman, Morgan Stanley push for CCAR changes
Balance sheets will shrink in a crisis, not grow, trading houses argue
IFRS 9 eases impairment charges, softening Barclays' profit drop
Total credit impairment charge stood at £571 million, a 46% decline year-on-year
BBVA gets forex model update from ECB
Foreign exchange risk added €366 million in capital requirements in 2017
Shut the window: EU Parliament tackles leverage loophole
EU banks may have to calculate leverage ratios daily, potentially hitting their repo market share
US G-Sibs increase off-balance sheet exposures
BAML, Citi, Goldman, Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo boost amounts by $124 billion
Foreign bank IHCs shed US assets in 2017
Barclays, Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank shrunk balance sheets by $166 billion
Libor transition raises basis risk fear
Shift to secured benchmark could cause dislocation between bank funding and lending rates
European banks face ‘bottleneck’ to complete EBA stress test
New accounting rules and supervisor demands squeeze teams prepping for 2018’s exercise
Fed credit limits likely to hit investment banks, custodians hardest
State Street, BNY Mellon, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs have low credit limits; high bank exposures
Goldman: bank liquidity needs will stall QE unwind
Economists at US bank expect Fed balance sheet to drop less than $1 trillion from 2017 peak
Retail banking performance improves Groupe BPCE cost of risk
Retail banking network cost of risk falls 22bp to 15bp
Commerzbank cuts loan charges in wake of IFRS 9
German lender posts “risk result” – costs associated with changes to loan-loss provisions and remeasurement of assets – of €77 million in March
UniCredit sheds €10.5 billion in toxic loans
Net write-downs on all loans fell to €496 million in the quarter, down from €835 million in December, an improvement of 40%, as a result of improved asset quality
Safeguarding liquidity in a changing environment
Nick Gant, head of fixed income prime brokerage for Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific at Societe Generale Prime Services, discusses banks’ evolving responsibilities for providing liquidity in a post-financial crisis environment in which…
BBVA gets capital relief through synthetic securitisation
Second deal with European Investment Bank frees up balance sheet for lending