Real estate
Savers and funds grabbed MBSs as banks and Fed retreated
Central banks and commercial lenders became net sellers of bundled mortgages as rates rose, says BIS
Asia moves: senior hires at Deutsche Bank, Maybank and more
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HSBC’s quarterly UK provisions rose 111% in Q3
Uncertainty around interest rates and political stability reflected in model overlays
Europe’s regulators play ‘time the downturn’ with CCyB
Indicators justify hikes in countercyclical capital buffer, but shock-driven recession looms large
China Merchants’ real estate NPLs double in H1
Some 3% of property development loans were non-performing, double the end-2021 level
HSBC’s China real estate exposures see fourfold rise in defaults
Proportion of “impaired” exposures to mainland investments jumped $1.7 billion in six months
Asia moves: senior hires at Standard Chartered, Barclays and more
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BlackRock’s 65% of AUM accounts for 1% of global emissions
Asset manager’s absolute emissions linked to corporate securities and real estate stood at 330.7 million tons of CO2e in 2020
APG hires in-house weatherman to interpret climate data
Europe’s wettest summer in a century prompts asset managers to calculate flood risk for real estate
Validation nightmare: the slotting approach under International Financial Reporting Standard 9
This paper makes an important contribution to the practice of validation by focusing on an under-researched area of the slotting approach to real estate specialized lending under the International Financial Reporting Standard 9 (IFRS 9) framework.
Two Sigma building quant tools to hunt real estate bargains
Information-rich market offers “trillions of dollars of opportunity”, says data chief
Loan losses: Banks’ estimates out of sync with Fed’s
Wells Fargo worst performer in latest DFAST exercise
Botched fallbacks leave CLOs facing early Libor switch
Nearly two-thirds of CRE securitisations issued since 2019 have already triggered fallback clauses
People news: Yarian leaves HSBC, Goldman’s Lemkau joins MSD Partners, and more
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Moonshots shelved: banks spend on home-working tech
Dealers made success of remote working switch – now they’re investing in its future, and pausing grander ambitions
Economic policy uncertainty, investors’ attention and US real estate investment trusts’ herding behaviors
Using a quantile regression model, this study examines economic policy uncertainty and investors’ attention for policy risk on US real estate investment trusts’ (REITs’) herding behaviors.
Eurozone real estate funds build equity holdings
Net purchases of equity hit €18.2 billion
Lower risk-weights for real estate free up Nordea’s capital
ECB cut risk-weights for Swedish and Norwegian commercial real estate to 50% at year-end
Liquidity risks acute for popular retail funds – Esma
Eight per cent of real estate fund NAV may be withdrawn over a one-day period
Navigating the impact of climate risk on financial stability
As uncertainty abounds on the impact climate change may have on the industry, financial services firms must best equip themselves for potential regulatory and socioeconomic changes to ensure they maximise the opportunities of embracing new best practices…
Europe eyes the pitfalls of Japanification
Does the cultural and demographic experience of Japan apply to a heterogeneous grouping of nations that have no common monetary policy or a unified social outlook?
Asia moves: Credit Suisse appoints equity research head, Natixis makes string of hires, and more
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