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The European Banking Authority has released details of how it will stress test Europe’s banks. It will look at a sell-off in sovereign bonds, and “re-differentiation of EU sovereign bond yields” — but this will mean only a 380bp widening in Greece, down to a 137bp widening in Germany. -
Deutsche Bank shrugged off market about its profits on Tuesday, reporting a 34% drop in net income that pleasantly surprised most analysts. But investors quickly turned their attentions to the German lender's capital ratios, which are the lowest of its peers — concerns which the bank moved to address on Monday night with plans for an AT1 bond.
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Portuguese regulators could be next in line to allow banks to increase their capital ratios using deferred tax assets, following similar moves in Spain and Italy that have boosted headline Basel III capital ratios at local banks.
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Banking funding rules should have diversity and stability in mind, and steer clear of favouring one funding format over another. But a Basel consultation document on the Net Stable Funding Ratio published this month promotes the exact opposite, and will make bank funding less stable.
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Further layers of management in Royal Bank of Scotland’s corporate and institutional bank are being decided, with promotions for Bob McKillip, Pierre Ferland, Richard Bartlett and Jan de Ruiter.
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Bank demand for covered bonds could be restricted as a result of new proposals on large exposures set out by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) which are set to come into effect in January 2019.
