Corporate loans
Bloomberg joins race for SOFR credit add-on
Benchmark provider building bolt-on adjustment from short-term bank lending data
Which EU banks hold the most SME exposures?
Danske Bank, Crédit Agricole, Group BPCE lead the field
Cross-border bank loans fizzled in Q2 as bonds soared – BIS
Outstanding dollar-denominated bonds climbed 4% over Q2
Covid policy risk hangs over bank stress tests
Banks and regulators are second-guessing the policy response to new outbreaks
EU banks’ credit risk estimates deteriorated in Q2
Weighted average corporate borrower PD across countries climbed to 2.04%
EU banks’ Q1 credit risk estimates show little Covid effect
Probability of defaults for retail exposures edged up only slightly quarter-on-quarter
Corporate, SME loans to take brunt of Covid shock, say EU banks
Though credit outlook has darkened, banks expect to increase lending overall
Stanford’s Duffie shakes up SOFR credit race with AXI index
Academics propose new credit index that ditches Libor tenors for a single funding spread
UK’s tough legacy fix spells trouble for US Libor transition
FCA will have little control over how synthetic Libor rates are used in other jurisdictions
Loan-loss provision charges nearly triple at Wells Fargo
Loss reserves for credit cards spike to 10.49% of outstanding loans
Capital relief trades make slow comeback from Covid slump
European synthetic credit risk transfer market now more expensive for banks
Twin-track solution for ‘tough legacy’ Libor falls flat
Critics deplore lack of detail in UK taskforce's call for parallel legal fix and synthetic rate
US loan market will move to SOFR by Q1 of 2021 – Wells Fargo
Libor head predicts quick transition for loans following ‘big bang’ shifts in swaps
Markit plans SOFR credit spread add-on using CDS data
Vendor taps vast pool of credit market data to create new benchmark “not dissimilar” to Libor
Bleak macro view pushes Lloyds’ ECL over £5bn
Anticipated loan losses for commercial loans up 39% on end-2019
Covid loans support six-month extension for Libor lending
UK working group delays Libor loan end-date to March 2021 as emergency loan scheme shuns Sonia
Lloyds and Riverside rehitch revolving loan to Sonia
£100m Sonia facility overcame late operational hurdles to be among the first done since the onset of coronavirus
EU compounding confusion creates headaches for banks
With the fallback possibly illegal in some EU states, loan system updates may become more complicated
Leveraged loan risks concentrated in handful of banks – FSB
US lenders make up 55% of exposures among global banks
Credit portfolio manager of the year: NatWest Bank
Risk Awards 2020: Big deals and big ideas have helped transform stress-test laggard to leader
Race to create term risk-free rates hots up
Markit joins term Sonia hopefuls; four providers release term €STR plans
The greening of Natixis’s balance sheet
Green weighting factor will be used to adjust the credit RWAs of loans
UK swaps carrot for stick in Libor switch
BoE committee mulls policy action, which could include capital hikes on Libor exposures
FCA official: stick with overnight rates for all new contracts
Schooling Latter limits term rates to legacy contracts and wants backward-looking method for loans