Balance sheet
Can Europe prepare ground for insurers in securitised products?
Convincing regulators to make investing more viable would be a first step to revitalising insurer interest
JPM, PNC bolster available-for-sale portfolios in Q3
Four major US banks add $119bn to AFS holdings
TD US to sell up to $50bn of securities
Asset cap imposed after AML settlement limits growth of retail banking arm
Intraday FX swaps could signal new dawn for liquidity management
Seedling market could help banks pre-fund payments in near-real time and reduce HQLA requirements
Sliced and sliced again: investors’ latest trick for risk transfer
‘Retranched’ synthetic securitisations offer higher yields, but questions remain over legality of structures
Banks cry foul over shock decision from Basel Committee
Asset and liability management professionals question severity of criteria in revised IRRBB tests
Republic First’s securities portfolio lost over $400m in 2024
Fair-value losses on non-agency RMBS holdings accelerated as rate cut expectations dimmed
Prop shops recoil from EU’s ‘ill-fitting’ capital regime
Large proprietary trading firms complain they are subject to hand-me-down rules originally designed for banks
US banks’ non-core funding dependence ratio jumped in 2023
BHCs’ aggregate figure almost doubled to post-pandemic high last year
Derivatives funding: smart solutions for a complex environment
Eurex’s cleared repo and GC Pooling offerings are helping market participants overcome challenges in the funding, financing and collateral markets
Five US banks hit record leverage exposures
Ballooning balance sheets leave Goldman, Morgan Stanley with razor-thin SLR buffers
Quarter-ends add $184bn to FX swap costs, study finds
Academics observe 36% increase in bid/ask spreads in short-tenor liquid currency pairs at quarter-end
Nordea writes off €130m of intangibles after accounting change
Fourth quarter impairment charges fourteen times larger than year prior
US Bancorp adds on $8bn in long-term debt
Interest expense from LTD rises to $569 million in Q4
US dealers’ leverage adequacy hits two-year high on repo compression
Lower repo exposures freed up capacity for derivatives and off-balance sheet items in third quarter
G-Sibs’ risk score heatmap shows signs of shakeup
Most systemic lenders’ scores remain driven by cross-jurisdictional activity, but other categories increase in heft
PTFs loaded up on US Treasuries during SVB collapse
Treasury official says non-bank interdealer market share rose 10 percentage points in March as dealers retreated
PacWest’s loans jitter, deposits dwindle in race towards merger
Merging partner Banc of California also sees deposit base slip further
Goldman writes off $506m of intangibles in GreenSky disposal
Only sliver of original investment to return to CET1 capital
Five US banks add $7bn in unrealised losses in Q3
Deductions at JP Morgan and Wells Fargo surge by more than $2 billion each
US banks’ RWA density dwarfs that of European peers
Truist, Capital One and PNC Bank lead with risk density above 65%