Market risk
Market risks push up top EU insurers’ capital charges
Allianz sees SCR for market risk surge 28% year-on-year
Art-secured lending: a risk analysis framework
In this study, the authors identify the three types of risks involved in an art-secured lending operation and present a framework to assess their combined effects via a Monte Carlo simulation.
EU urged to pass permanent market risk capital relief
Council agrees temporary changes, but ECB’s Enria wants legislators to trust supervisors
Regulators and banks clash on FRTB capital impact study
Basel and EBA call out two banks for using “overly conservative” survey assumptions
In downturns, vol travels down the supply chain – study
Customer VAR breaches strike at stressed suppliers, research shows
EU Parliament ‘likely’ to allow market risk capital relief
MEPs propose allowing supervisors to temporarily exclude Covid-related backtesting exceptions
Rewards for failure: the ECB’s topsy-turvy market risk relief
Eurozone banks with better models are least able to offset Covid-driven rise in backtesting multiplier
Covid tumult pushed VAR capital charges up 72% at US G-Sibs
JP Morgan’s charge increases 148% quarter-on-quarter
Trading losses at US units of Deutsche, RBC exceed VAR by 1,000%
Wild markets overwhelmed foreign banks’ value-at-risk estimates
Systemic US banks incurred 42 VAR breaches in Q1
Leading dealers saw actual losses over four times greater than their VAR estimates on some days
Six VAR breaches at ABN Amro in Q1
Market risk capital charge climbs 57% in response
EBA relaxes modellability hurdles for market risk capital
Flexibility granted for assessing NMRFs on options, but constraints remain on committed quotes
BNP incurs nine VAR breaches in Q1
Market RWAs jump 37% to €26 billion
SocGen’s trading VAR unmoved by wild markets
Though market RWAs soared, VAR dipped 7% quarter-on-quarter
PRA relief blunts market risk surge at Barclays, StanChart
Without temporary measures, market RWAs would have been 18% higher at StanChart
CVA, market RWAs more than double at UBS in Q1
Overall risk-weighted assets increased 10% on end-2019
European banks seek capital relief for CVA hedges
Volatile trading in March caused CVA hedges to dominate market risk RWAs at some smaller dealers
EU market risk relief targets VAR measures
Dealers with a large percentage of their total capital set using value-at-risk stand to benefit most
FRTB comes too late for Covid crisis
Expected shortfall would stop Basel 2.5 duplicate capital charges, but backtesting still a problem
Goldman Sachs’ VAR hits five-year high
Higher market risk accompanied bumper trading revenues in Q1
Eurozone banks fear market risk capital hike due to Covid-19
Hopes that ECB will fix double-counting as VAR breaches rise on market volatility
EU banks seek FRTB delay, citing ‘strain’ of virus
Firms want leeway to fight market mayhem, minus burden of new reporting rules
PRA relief to save banks up to 33% on VAR-based charges
HSBC may benefit most from easing of capital rules