Leverage ratio
Commerzbank plumps capital buffer with AT1 bond sale
Bail-in instrument helps expand buffer above MDA limit to around 220bp
Fed’s repo operations will not fix rate spikes, dealers say
Risk USA: leverage constraints remain, even after massive injections of emergency liquidity
Capital issuance spree boosts Credit Suisse’s Tier 1 buffers
Contingent note sale pushes additional Tier 1 capital up 22%
Frandt or foe? FCMs hit back at Esma buy-side clearing salvo
Esma pushes dealers to publish standardised fee schedules amid clearing capacity fears
RBS’s leverage ratio sinks as balance sheet swells
NatWest Markets RWAs also increased on the quarter as derivatives positions deteriorated
Some eurozone banks have thin leverage capital buffers
Tier 1 capital surpluses above regulatory minimums range between 31% and 123%
Post-crisis rules roil US cross-currency basis – IMF
EU leverage ratio causes basis spikes at quarter-ends
Following Fed changes, Morgan Stanley’s leverage bind to loosen
Bank chief cannot see capital requirements going up when stress capital buffer and new SLR come into effect
Repo exposures pile up at BNP Paribas
French bank had €388 billion of repo exposures at end-June
Liquidity coverage of eurozone G-Sibs diverge in first half of 2019
BNP Paribas sees LCR drop 11.6 percentage points in H1 while Deutsche Bank’s climbs 7.3 percentage points
Off-balance-sheet exposures at US systemic banks jump $67bn
BAML expands these assets by 2.5% quarter-on-quarter to $921 billion
Over two years, UK G-Sibs levered up in contrast to EU peers
But UK CRR leverage ratios still higher than eurozone rivals
Wells Fargo, BNY Mellon, State Street build repo exposures in Q2
Wells Fargo increases gross repo assets by 12.4% in three months to end-June
UK leverage ratios edge lower as regulatory minimums climb
Additional leverage buffers raise minimum required ratios well above 3.25% floor
SA-CCR switch cuts leverage of two Japanese banks
Leverage exposures for Nomura and Norinchukin fall ¥4.7 trillion in aggregate
Holdco issuances spur Barclays’ MREL progress
UK bank issues £7.1 billion of MREL debt in first half of 2019
Restructured Deutsche would be slimmest eurozone G-Sib
As of Q4 2018, the German bank was the third-largest systemic lender by leverage exposure
Capitalab completes first compression run with SGX
Compression efficiency in SGX Nikkei 225 options could be as high as 50%, Capitalab says
Basel closes in on IM offset for leverage ratio
US seen as obstacle to consensus; committee expected to allow netting of margin against PFE only
Savings vary for UK banks under BoE leverage ratio
RBS deducted £80 billion of leverage exposure under UK-specific rule at end-March
How capital rules overwhelmed bank strategy
Regulators shouldn’t run a bank – but Basel III and stress tests have put them in the cockpit
European and UK leverage ratios fall in Q1
UK banks had leverage ratios on average 26bp higher than their continental European peers
At US G-Sibs, off-balance-sheet exposures climb $44bn
Goldman Sachs is only big bank to post lower amounts on quarter
US mid-sized banks may bulk up. (Is that safe?)
The crisis over a decade gone, the Fed’s ‘tailoring’ proposal will greatly relax rules on the mid-tier