Loan loss reserves
Capital One’s loan charge-offs surge 54% in Q4
Amount of credit cards and consumer loans getting written off approaches pre-pandemic levels
Top US lenders book $6.2bn in provisions in Q4
Loan-loss charges at Bank of America, Citi, JP Morgan and Wells Fargo hit highest since pandemic outset
Erste, RBI top up provisions with €258m in overlays
Austrian lenders remain reliant on model supplements as energy squeeze looms
Top US banks set aside $6bn for credit losses in Q3
Quarterly provisions highest in two years
ECL model forecasts are off-target, researchers find
Anticipated slowdown will be first major test for new generation of expected credit loss models
At some Chinese banks, NPL growth outpaces allowances
Bank of Beijing, Bank of China, China Merchants Bank and Industrial Bank see bad loans climb faster than set-asides
Rabobank’s shaky loans up 35% on emissions cut plans
Bank says Dutch government proposal to reduce pollution from livestock farming risks making loans unviable
ING takes €1.6bn capital hit on Russia exposures
Bank adds €834 million of provisions and takes €9 billion of new credit RWAs
Some EU banks keep underprovisioning for ECLs
Divergences between accounting and regulatory markdowns remains high at some top lenders
EU banks with thinnest buffers tap heftiest IFRS 9 capital add-backs
EBA data shows lenders whose capital benefitted most from transitional loan-loss relief also have skinniest CET1 capital ratios
Estimating loan loss provisions may have just got easier
Commerzbank quant proposes shortcut to calculate lifetime loan loss reserves
Morgan Stanley sets aside $73m for credit losses
Bank returns to stash reserves triggered by one facility in Q2
Loan losses: Banks’ estimates out of sync with Fed’s
Wells Fargo worst performer in latest DFAST exercise
From one extreme to another: Covid upsets loan models once more
Unusual economic slumps tripped up models in 2020. Now, they are struggling with fast recoveries
UK banks released £671m of loan-loss provisions in Q1
HSBC, Lloyds and NatWest all released surplus credit reserves
Santander added to its pile of shaky loans in Q1
‘Stage two’ assets made up 7% of its total at end-March
Systemic US banks released $9.4bn of credit reserves in Q1
JP Morgan reversed $4.2 billion of provisions alone
Strange new world of Covid economics upends loan-loss models
Models wrong-footed by government support, slumps in whole sectors and differences within industries
EU banks saw distressed loans heap up in Q4
‘Stage two’ assets make up 9.1% of banks’ total
PNC appoints new chief risk officer
Super-regional, soon to be US’s fifth-biggest bank, switches risk chief
Top 10 op risks 2021: regulatory risk
Big dip in fines belies lingering fears over Covid loan mis-selling and sanctions risk
‘Big Five’ Canadian banks’ provisions doubled in pandemic year
However, over three months to end-January, set-asides dropped dramatically
ING takes capital hit for lowballing loan-loss provisions
NPE coverage ratio fell over Q4
Non-performing loans piled up at Japan megabanks in 2020
Bad loan ratio climbed 10 basis points on average across MUFG, SMFG and Mizuho