Capital requirements
Stress test results show Fed toughening up
Median post-stress ratio of 7.9% the lowest pass mark to date
Fed stress tests stretch State Street, Goldman, Morgan Stanley
State Street worst performer among complex firms on capital; Goldman and Morgan Stanley on SLR
EU insurance solvency ratios strengthen in 2017 – Eiopa
Average solvency ratio climbs to 237%
Fed plans reform of US bank ownership rules
Relaxing the definition of control would allow funds to invest without becoming BHCs themselves
Asian and Americas CCPs seek EU recognition
16 CCPs apply for Esma's seal of approval
CCAR winners and losers 2012–17
American Express came off worst under CCAR total capital ratio measure among large and complex firms three years out of six
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
Take-up of credit modelling varies at European banks
Percentage of credit RWAs calculated using IRB approaches ranges from 42% to 91% across large dealers
Crédit Agricole and Groupe BPCE hardest hit by countercyclical buffer
Minimum capital requirement will rise around 20 basis points at BPCE; 16 at Crédit Agricole
French countercyclical buffer lowest in EU
0.25% surcharge the lowest of nine CCyBs across member states
EC official offers hope to prop traders on capital rules
Official sees problems in draft regulation, says EU council and parliament are discussing them
Actionable data breach insights from op risk modelling
Thomas Lee, chief executive at VivoSecurity, and Martin Liljeblad, operational risk manager at MUFG Americas, examine how a data breach cost model can replace an advanced measurement approach in a structured scenario
US CVA charges over seven times higher than EU
Huge disparity appears to result from EU exemption for corporate trades
Basel floor change boosts Canadian bank capital ratios
CET1 ratios improve between five and 120 basis points quarter-on-quarter at 'Big Five'
Op risk standard will hike capital by 11% – latest data
Rises in capital under SMA will vary depending on regulator treatment, writes op risk expert
Funding in the dark: EU banks wait on bail-in bond rules
Issuance strategies clouded by uncertainty over MREL subordination and pre-positioning
EBA and ECB hit out at capital hurdles to banking union
Top regulators frustrated by push to ring-fence capital and liquidity in EU subsidiaries of EU banks
New capital floor saves CIBC C$244 million
Switch to Basel II-based floor adds 16 basis points to bank's CET1 ratio
Goldman, JP Morgan get riskier in Q1
Each bank could face an extra 50 basis points of capital add-on without remedial action
Five US banks below Collins floor
Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, Citigroup, State Street and Wells Fargo had higher standardised RWAs than modelled RWAs
Citi continues cutting derivatives exposure
Total is down 16% from 2016, limiting impact of US leverage ratio
Italian banks hardest hit by IFRS 9 transition
Risk Quantum analysis of 36 banks from 11 European Union countries found that capital declined on average by 34bp between December 31, 2017, and March 31, 2018
US bank VAR-based charges surge in volatile first quarter
Average quarter-on-quarter increase of 23% for VAR-based capital across 11 large dealers
Bank of America and BNY Mellon suffer VAR breaches
Trading losses exceeded estimates on a single day at each dealer in the first quarter