G-Sibs
Systemic banks: black boxes on green issues
Less talk and more action needed around climate disclosures linked to carbon emissions
Systemic risk: Fed methodology out of sync with Basel’s
Different inputs and calculator formulae pose dual test to US banks
Source of systemic risk varies by region
European, Canadian and UK banks are too big to fail because of their cross-border activities, Chinese and Japanese banks because of their size
HSBC leads systemic banks in cutting derivatives exposures
On aggregate, the top 30 banks shrunk notionals by 7% year on year
Global banks grow systemic footprint
Nine out of the 12 G-Sib indicators increased in 2020
BoComm, Nomura and Citic near G-Sib designation
Dealers could all become members of the club next year if trend continues
Substitutability cap spares JP Morgan higher capital add-on
Three other US banks – BNY Mellon, Citi and State Street – also hit the cap in this year’s G-Sib assessment
JPM, BNP Paribas and Goldman hit with higher capital surcharges
Banks slapped with extra 50 basis points of capital add-on
Most G-Sibs fail to disclose financed emissions
None of the world’s top 30 banks disclose climate impact of their whole portfolio
US megabanks lead push for agency clearing in Europe
Clearing through agency model would cut US lenders’ G-Sib capital surcharges
State Street shrinks gap in the custody assets race
Boston-based bank reports largest quarterly increase among top US custodians
EU banks’ derivatives exposures jumped 36% in H1
Top banks added €235bn since December, amid switch to SA-CCR and a new leverage ratio template
Basel III heralds 41% op risk jump for EU banks
Capital requirements set to rise almost 88% for those G-Sibs that don’t currently use the AMA
Basel III output floor set to bind 25% of large banks
Risk-based capital requirements would constrain the largest share of international lenders
Basel III capital shortfall shrinks to €8bn
G-Sibs responsible for 77% of the aggregate deficit
European banks set for 17.6% capital hike under Basel III
Output floor expected to push Tier 1 capital requirements up 7.3% alone, latest BCBS monitoring report shows
BNP Paribas leads EU banks on repo exposures
French bank increased securities financing transactions by €66bn in the first half of the year, the most among the bloc’s top lenders
Systemic US banks’ bail-in buffers rose in Q2
Morgan Stanley posts largest amount of headroom, while Citi, State Street and Wells Fargo trail behind
Santander’s CVA charge jumps 94% in Q2
Among the other EU systemic banks, higher capital requirements also at SocGen, ING, Crédit Agricole and UniCredit
Level 3 assets at global systemic banks down 36% since 2014
Hard-to-value holdings down sharply over the past six years, but pandemic threw spanner in the works at some banks
Majority of US G-Sibs’ assets attract sub-100% risk-weighting
Risk Quantum analysis shows top US banks retrenched to lower-risk assets through the pandemic
State Street to become world’s largest custodian
Brown Brothers Harriman Investor Services acquisition means Boston-based bank will leapfrog BNY Mellon and JP Morgan
Cleared portfolios surge at EU G-Sibs
Systemic banks post highest share of cleared trades in seven years, as IM phases five and six approach
Citi leads US banks in shrinking market risk
First aggregate drop in capital charges stemming from market risk since mid-2020