Capital buffer
UniCredit bolsters capital ratio on Fineco sale
Italian bank also offloaded Mediobanca stake
SocGen’s CET1 ratio shoots higher as revamp continues
French bank sheds €7.1 billion of RWAs in Q3
CaixaBank approaches MREL target
Innovative social bond helps fill bail-in buffers
ING confident of capital target despite headwinds
Countercyclical capital charges push minimum capital requirement higher
Stress-testing: still worth the stress?
There may be more efficient ways to assess if banks are misjudging their risks
Denmark, Slovakia hike countercyclical buffers
Eight countries have increased their CCyB year-to-date
Some eurozone banks have thin leverage capital buffers
Tier 1 capital surpluses above regulatory minimums range between 31% and 123%
US bank minnows growing faster than giants
Banks $1 billion to $10 billion in size accumulated assets at faster rate than those over $10 billion in size in 2018
Retained earnings power capital growth at top eurozone banks
Retained earnings increased €29.7 billion as part of CET1 at 16 large eurozone banks in two years to end-2018
Time for a (proper) G-Sib speeding ticket
Fed’s systemic risk assessment has become box-ticking exercise, and US banks are getting away with it
At US G-Sibs, capital buffers have thinned since 2016
Median G-Sib buffer stands at 3.1% and minimum requirement 9.5%
TD Bank closes on TLAC target
Lender sold four bail-in bonds last quarter, boosting its TLAC ratio to 18.9%
Bail-in bond sales catapult BMO towards TLAC target
Bank’s TLAC ratio hits 19.4% following debt issuances
Six US banks grow systemic footprints
BAML and Citi climb into higher G-Sib surcharge buckets
US G-Sibs’ TLAC buffers vary
Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs have eligible TLAC equal to 50.8% and 44.7% of RWAs, respectively
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
Capital issue boosts BofA’s AT1 capital by 11%
The bank issued two slugs of perpetual preferred stocks in Q2 2019
Fixing the roof while the sun – wait, is that rain?
The Fed is split on whether to apply a countercyclical buffer. But so is everyone else
Double jeopardy: CCAR and the countercyclical buffer
Some US regulators want to hike capital while times are good; banks say Fed’s stress test already does
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CCAR: JP Morgan, Capital One adjust planned capital actions
Two banks see stressed capital ratios fall below regulatory minimums at first attempt
Czech National Bank raises countercyclical buffer to 2%
Increase takes effect from July 2020
Deutsche slashes links to other financial firms
Intra-financial system assets and liabilities fall 22% and 29%, respectively
Deutsche’s stress-testing models are surprisingly accurate
DB USA's projections precisely matched the Fed’s estimates for the second year in a row