Residential mortgages
Nordea marks down Danish mortgages by €29 million
House price declines mark ominous signal for other supercharged markets
Some euro banks modelled lower mortgage risk in H1
Italian and Belgian lenders reported steepest drops in risk density despite recessionary threat
Model clampdown costs NatWest 157bp of CET1 ratio
Measures to remedy internal model deficiencies added £14.8 billion RWAs overnight
Smaller EU nations stare down giants in capital floor standoff
EU member states clash over severity of internally modelled output floors for cross-border bank groups
EU lawmakers’ demand for local capital floors alarms banks
Multiple output floors applied to each entity raises fears of capital increase for large groups
RWA increase puts ABN’s core ratio closer to Basel III estimate
Higher RWAs shrink gap between actual and pro forma ratios
Internal risk floors add $7.1bn to Westpac’s retail RWAs
Bank braces for tighter capital rules and roll-off of Covid measures
A prudent loss given default estimation for mortgages. II
This paper introduces a prudent methodology to accurately estimates loss given default for mortgage portfolios and to stress test those portfolios effectively.
BoE floor could double capital charges on HSBC’s UK home loans
New rules could forcibly push up residential mortgage portfolio’s 5% risk density
Bleak macro view pushes Lloyds’ ECL over £5bn
Anticipated loan losses for commercial loans up 39% on end-2019
RFRs hit Main Street as Swiss banks launch Saron mortgages
Negative rates ease path for compounded Saron home loans without lags or lookbacks
Show don’t tell: BoE’s climate stress test dilemma
Making the test easier to run could come at the expense of building risk management capacity
JP Morgan revs up securitisation engine
Exposures receiving securitisation capital treatment increase by $13.7 billion year-on-year
US Bancorp slashes bad assets 5% in Q2
Total amount of toxic assets stood at $953 million at end-June
Mortgages, auto loans find a home in new EU securitisations
Esma listed 23 public STS securitisations as of July 1
Stress test projected loan losses fall $18bn
Credit card loss rates account for 36.3% of total loan losses under severely adverse scenario
Metro Bank execs under scrutiny after loan probe snafu
Lender could see capital buffer rise after admitting regulator, not bank, discovered errors
US Bancorp cuts $87 million of soured loans
Ratio of toxic assets to total loans fall 19% quarter-to-quarter
Model revamp hikes UBS credit RWAs
Calculation tweaks made to scrap higher regulatory RWA multipliers
UniCredit sheds €10.5 billion in toxic loans
Net write-downs on all loans fell to €496 million in the quarter, down from €835 million in December, an improvement of 40%, as a result of improved asset quality
Westpac's capital charge rises as securitisation rule bites
Securitisation RWAs jump from A$1.4 billion under new standard
NAB model change boosts mortgage RWAs
Residential mortgage RWAs leap A$10.6 billion
Top 10 op risks 2018: mis-selling
Speculation rife among survey participants over ‘the next PPI’
Soaring Fed Home Loan Bank borrowings spark systemic risk fears
Parallels drawn with Fannie and Freddie as commercial bank borrowing from FHLBs nears $500bn