Interest rate risk
Don’t count on repo to monetise liquidity books, say experts
QT could force banks to sell bonds during stress, underlining need for fair value accounting
RBC’s loan-underwriting VAR drops 59% as volumes dry up
Widening credit spreads had previously sent market risk on syndicated loans skyrocketing
ECB mulls intervention on uneven banking book reporting
Inconsistency among EU banks on whether deposits and loans are in scope for credit spread risk
Bankers call for overhaul of EBA stress tests
Support for multiple scenarios, but only if fixed assumptions and variables are scaled back
Do all roads lead to multi-scenario Fed stress tests?
This year’s CCAR faced criticism for underweighting the risk of higher-for-longer inflation
Northern Trust’s market risk surges ninefold in Q2
Market risk exposure jumps to $673 million, the highest level on record
Rising costs prompt US borrowers to embrace compounded SOFR
Sophisticated firms with term SOFR loans increasingly willing to run basis risk to cut hedging costs
Zions model change reverses positive EVE projections
Estimated impact of interest rate shocks up to 17.7pp higher under adjusted assumptions
HSBC’s trading VAR hits 10-year high
Interest rate risk behind trading risk gauge peaked in H1
Asset-liability management: Special report 2023
There is nothing new about the dynamics behind the asset-liability management (ALM) banking crisis of earlier this year: maturity transformation, liquidity risk and interest rate risk are at the heart of the traditional banking business model. But these…
Deposit repricing shifts Zions’ IRR outlook
The bank reckons high pass-through of Fed hikes means its rate-shock exposure is lower than under standard modelling
Man on a mission: Axel van Nederveen, swaps evangelist
EBRD treasurer spreads the good word about local currency derivatives markets
Pre-merger, PacWest reported record negative NII growth
Funding costs continue to outpace income growth at majority of US banks
MCB’s interest rate risk widens as funding turns costlier
Rotation into remunerated deposits and short-term borrowing raises liabilities’ sensitivity
BNP Paribas, SocGen brace for more hits from TLTRO hedge unwinds
Duo expect combined €600m in losses after already booking €500m in first quarter
US regionals need at least two years for TLAC transition
Market participants think issuance will be feasible for largest, but only in calmer conditions
Regulators’ remorse: SVB and the case for IRRBB capital charges
Basel Committee chair among those who say Pillar 1 capital requirement could have helped control SVB risks
Basel’s IRRBB shock scenario update hit by US crisis
Recalibration of shocks had been touted for Q3, but wider rethink may now cause delay
Dutch pensions have extra year to restructure hedges
January 2028 implementation date allows more time for long-dated swaps to roll off
After SVB downfall, EBA stress test seeks out unrealised losses
European regulator asks for data on the fair value and sensitivity of bonds and their hedges
Western Alliance’s rate-risk gauge breaches internal guidance
EVE depletion for 100bp and 200bp hike scenarios highest disclosed by any US regional bank
Europe’s new IRRBB test: the riddle with no answer
A proposed compromise on net interest income test is not scientific, but exact calibration may be impossible
Interest rate risk drives ING’s VAR to two-year high
Dutch lender’s trading risk indicator averaged €14 million in Q1
Hear no EVE, see no EVE
The Fed chastised SVB for poor rate-risk monitoring, but most US banks’ disclosures remain focused on earnings alone