Systemic risk
Level 3 assets at global systemic banks down 36% since 2014
Hard-to-value holdings down sharply over the past six years, but pandemic threw spanner in the works at some banks
Cleared portfolios surge at EU G-Sibs
Systemic banks post highest share of cleared trades in seven years, as IM phases five and six approach
Crédit Agricole grew OTC derivatives notionals 17% in 2020
Bank pulls ahead of SocGen as third-largest European derivatives bank but risks incurring a higher G-Sib score
Securities market frenzy drives up mid-sized European banks' systemic risk
Nordea’s underwriting activity jumped by almost 7,000% in 2020
Systemic indicators surged at European banks in 2020
Values used for 10 of 12 systemic risk indicators climb year-on-year
EU stress tests: BNP Paribas would bear brunt of trading losses
Losses from held-for-trading balance sheet would wipe out fair value book gains
Three ways to improve the systemic risk analysis of the Central and Eastern European region using SRISK and CoVaR
This paper proposes three modifications to two well-established measures of systemic risk, SRISK and CoVaR.
PoP goes FXPB: prime of prime fizzes, but isn’t to all tastes
Sources report ebullient growth among PoPs, despite lingering wariness around risk redistribution
End of SLR relief weighs on JP Morgan
All eight US systemic banks saw their supplementary leverage ratio drop in Q2
Custody banks add $6.5 trillion assets
BNY Mellon extended its lead over State Street and JP Morgan in the second quarter
Seeking SCB relief, Goldman cuts equity investments
Plans for less capital-intensive balance sheet could shave 140bp off capital requirements
Risk managers urge consolidation of climate scenarios
Converging financial and corporate scenarios would provide better data for stress-testing
G-Sib regime: something’s broken
US banks are taking the Fed for a ride – it’s time to address the issue
At Citi, Goldman larger OTC swaps books drive up systemic risk scores
Increase in trading and available-for-sale securities bump systemic risk scores higher at BofA and JPM
JP Morgan, BofA face higher G-Sib surcharges
Both banks could face an extra 50 basis points of capital add-on without remedial action
Could global regulators miss another Archegos whale?
Spotting systemic risk from OTC swaps requires cross-border access to derivatives data
Hedge funds and the rebound in collateral velocity
Reuse rate of collateral points to growing fragility and interconnectedness in financial markets
Podcast: Hagan on convexity, volatility and the London Whale
Ex-JP Morgan quant discusses his latest work and the risk failures that cost the bank $6bn in 2012
Core systemic indicators at HSBC blinked higher in 2020
Underwriting indicator increased over 30%
A numerical simulation approach to study systemic risk in banking systems
The authors introduce a simple numerical algorithm to study banking systems subject to credit risk. The algorithm is based on a model that is completely defined by only two parameters.
Regional US banks became more systemically risky in 2020
US Bancorp, PNC disclosed an increased reliance on short-term wholesale funding over the year
Deposits boosted top US banks’ short-term funds in 2020
Unsecured funding from outside the financial sector increased 22% to $934.6 billion
Five US systemic banks face higher G-Sib surcharges
JP Morgan to face 4% add-on; Wells Fargo a cut to 1.5%
Optimization of systemic risk: reallocation of assets based on bank networks
In this paper, the authors investigate the optimization of systemic risk based on DebtRank by considering two contagion channels: interbank lending and common asset holdings.