Capital requirements
Risk density of top US banks edged down in Q1
Banks piled up assets with low risk-weightings in the first quarter
ECB’s Enria unsure banks will dip into capital buffers
Anxiety over investor and rating agency reaction may limit banks’ use of Covid relief measures
Counterparty risk capital charges up 20% at top UK banks
StanChart CCR capital requirement jumps 41% over the first quarter
Trading losses at US units of Deutsche, RBC exceed VAR by 1,000%
Wild markets overwhelmed foreign banks’ value-at-risk estimates
Systemic US banks incurred 42 VAR breaches in Q1
Leading dealers saw actual losses over four times greater than their VAR estimates on some days
Eurozone bank capital buffers swell on Covid relief measures
Average buffer increases to 393bp across 14 eurozone lenders
Six VAR breaches at ABN Amro in Q1
Market risk capital charge climbs 57% in response
A zombie US capital ratio comes back to life
SLR rollback could mark the return of 1990s Tier 1 leverage ratio as a binding constraint
Credit models at odds with standardised approach on Covid
Increase to advanced approaches RWAs far outpaces growth to standardised
UK banks eye Pillar 2 savings after PRA intervention
Top lenders could free £4.4 billion of capital
Capital overhaul depresses Crédit Agricole’s solvency ratio
Wind down of “Switch” mechanism may have come at a bad time for the French lender
Covid-19 chaos drains Axa’s Solvency II ratio
French insurer’s regulatory capital ratio is at its lowest since the Solvency II regime took effect
BNP incurs nine VAR breaches in Q1
Market RWAs jump 37% to €26 billion
New securitisation rules weigh on UK banks
HSBC sees capital charge increase 41% quarter-on-quarter
BBVA trims capital target following ECB relief measures
Spanish lender targets 225-275bp CET1 management buffer
SocGen’s trading VAR unmoved by wild markets
Though market RWAs soared, VAR dipped 7% quarter-on-quarter
PRA relief blunts market risk surge at Barclays, StanChart
Without temporary measures, market RWAs would have been 18% higher at StanChart
CVA, market RWAs more than double at UBS in Q1
Overall risk-weighted assets increased 10% on end-2019
Covid relief frees €4.9bn of capital at Santander
Bank sees CET1 buffer climb to 272bp
Finma relief unlocks $90bn of leverage exposure at Credit Suisse
Central bank deposit carve-out is intended to support lending
EU market risk relief targets VAR measures
Dealers with a large percentage of their total capital set using value-at-risk stand to benefit most
FRTB comes too late for Covid crisis
Expected shortfall would stop Basel 2.5 duplicate capital charges, but backtesting still a problem
Amid Covid crisis, top US banks give $32bn away to shareholders
Buybacks exceeded Q1 2019 total, despite voluntary suspension on March 15
Output floor cliff edge effects threaten EU banks
Capital measure to have uneven impact across five-year phase-in