Goldman Sachs
Fed stress tests stretch Goldman Sachs, HSBC
US dealers toe binding minimums in latest DFAST exercise
Assets under custody creep up at BNY, JP and State Street
Across the eight US systemically important banks, custody assets rose 27% year on year
JP Morgan, BofA face higher G-Sib surcharges
Both banks could face an extra 50 basis points of capital add-on without remedial action
Banks invest in futures utility to guard against tech snafus
FCMs, including Goldman and JP, stump up $44 million to fund FIA Tech push to standardise trade processing
Bank of America cleared swaps jump $6.6trn
Bank’s quarterly increase leads US G-Sibs’ $25trn rise in Q1
People moves: five leave JP Morgan, MS names co-presidents, and more
Latest job changes across the industry
Wells Fargo’s off-balance-sheet exposures up $54bn
Total OBS exposures across the US largest systemically important institutions hit $3.04trn in Q1
The new rules of market risk management
Amid 2020’s Covid-19-related market turmoil – with volatility and value-at-risk (VAR) measures soaring – some of the world’s largest investment banks took advantage of the extraordinary conditions to notch up record trading revenues. In a recent Risk.net…
US banks add $130bn in carve-out assets as SLR relief ends
JP Morgan led the top US banks in increasing their stock of US Treasuries and excess reserves
JPM records highest number of profit-making days in six years
In aggregate, US G-Sibs racked up 355 profit-making days over Q1
Morgan Stanley, Bank of America push VAR limits the most
Largest losses-to-VAR ratios at the two firms were the highest among the eight systemic US banks in Q1
Goldman’s market RWAs grew $14.9 billion in Q1
The increase was largely due to higher VAR and SVAR measures
RWA density rises at Citi, BNY Mellon and State Street
The eight US G-Sibs reported total assets of $14.2 trillion, up 5% quarter on quarter
Goldman inks modelling, data tie-up with MSCI
Move to cross-sell risk analytics could herald further content deals for bank’s Marquee platform, says sales chief
How Credit Suisse fell victim to its own success
Roots of Archegos loss can be traced to business strategy the bank embraced back in 2006
Prudential, Goldman cast doubt on Libor-like replacement rates
Isda AGM: Participants split on case for credit-sensitive rates in post-Libor world
Accurate RFR hedges face liquidity trade-off, participants say
Isda AGM: Aligning swaps with assorted cash market conventions requires users to weigh liquidity cost
Credit Suisse and the Wild West of synthetic prime brokerage
Industry insiders describe a frontier business with few rules – and plenty of questionable practices
Goldman’s swaps clearing unit boosts client margin by $1.2bn
The top eight FCMs accounted for 95.8% of total client required margin, down 96.4% YoY
Credit Suisse held just 10% margin against Archegos book
Swiss bank gave family office 10 times leverage, compared with four or five times at Goldman
Systemic US banks released $9.4bn of credit reserves in Q1
JP Morgan reversed $4.2 billion of provisions alone
Modifying market risk management – A year into the Covid‑19 pandemic
This webinar explores how capital markets participants revised their market risk management practices during the height of Covid-19 pandemic-induced market volatility and what this means for the future
JP Morgan’s SLR falls as Fed relief ends
Bank says raising capital against deposits are “unnatural actions for banks”
Would margin rules have checked Archegos? Perhaps not
Regulator-prescribed margin methodology permits six-times leverage on equity swaps