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Science-based targets could help banks wrestling with climate risk
UK banks and building societies are struggling with difficult aspects of incorporating climate change into their risk management, as demanded by the regulator, a PwC survey has found. The answer to some of their problems could be a non-risk initiative: science-based targets.
22 Oct 2020 -
UK moves early to dispel fears about bank capital buffers
Markets rejoiced this week after the Bank of England proposed policy changes that will make it harder for UK lenders to run into automatic restrictions on their additional tier one coupons and equity dividends. The move was seen as a way of addressing concern about ‘buffer usability’, which has come to the fore during the Covid-19 pandemic.
22 Oct 2020 -
Meissner takes charge of Credit Suisse’s new ‘A-team’
Christian Meissner has an exciting new position at Credit Suisse. But how far can he improve the Swiss bank’s offering to wealth management clients while also handling its culture, asks David Rothnie.
22 Oct 2020 -
BoE to ease MDA rules for UK banks
The Bank of England said this week that it would loosen some of the rules around the maximum distributable amount for UK banks after Brexit, making it harder for them to trigger restrictions on their additional tier one (AT1) coupons and equity dividends.
21 Oct 2020 -
EBA looks to halt 'infection risk' on legacy capital
Much of European rule making in wider society has been about preventing infection spreading to the elderly of late. But the European Banking Authority has instead weighed in on the "infection risk" that stems from grandfathered securities.
21 Oct 2020 -
ECB laments lack of CCy cap before Covid
The European Central Bank said this week that it thought a stronger role for countercyclical capital buffers would be key in making sure that banks use their available resources to boost lending in times of crisis.
20 Oct 2020 -
UK to ditch MREL MDA after Brexit
The UK government has said that banks will still be able to make investor distributions if they fall below their minimum requirements for own funds and eligible liabilities (MREL) after Brexit — in an early of sign of divergence from the EU rulebook.
19 Oct 2020 -
HSBC financed climate laggards weeks before net zero target
HSBC provided $1.8bn of financing to high carbon companies including Kepco, which is developing new coal plants, in just five deals in the past four months, as it prepared to announce its “net zero ambition” on October 9, an NGO has alleged.
16 Oct 2020 -
Putting the 'K' in capital markets
The coronavirus crisis will continue to lead to divergence in economic fortunes, and that will play out in European capital markets as well.
13 Oct 2020 -
Fitch Bohua debuts Chinese domestic rating
Fitch Rating’s China arm, Fitch (China) Bohua Credit Ratings, assigned its first domestic rating this week, five months after securing a licence in the world’s second largest bond market.
13 Oct 2020
