Posts tagged 'CEBS'

Banks to divide global pay structures

| Dec 21 2010 04:40 | Comment |

The world’s biggest investment banks plan to overhaul their pay structures to differentiate between bankers based in Europe and those who work elsewhere, after European regulators’ clampdown on bonus pay-outs, reports the FT. Many US and Swiss banks are considering paying higher salaries and lower bonuses to top bankers based in the EU, mostly in London, to ensure they comply with new instructions from the Committee of European Banking Supervisors, the pan-EU regulator, limiting cash pay-outs. In a separate analysis, the FT examines how investment banks are faring in the wake of the financial crisis, while Reuters reports on how UK banks are adjusting to new pay-out rules. Read more

Europe’s stress test was RIGHT

Joseph joined FT Alphaville way back in March 2010. He likes all the politically and legally fiddly bits of finance. He also likes credit, rates, global macro, tail risk, and all that stuff. (You should email him story ideas. He’ll take anything.)

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| Dec 15 2010 16:15 | Comment |

Ancient Greek mothers would often finish mythic tales told to their children (wholesome stuff like Oedipus, Electra and so on) with ‘…and then the story came true’, goes an apocryphal historical canard.

A lesson on tragic predestination and omnipotent fate, apparently. Read more

BIS > stress tests

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| Dec 13 2010 14:59 | Comment |

Here’s more on those big BIS numbers on banks’ peripheral exposure, complete with a faint haughty whiff of ‘my banking statistics are better than yours’.

We merely think it’s a useful public service announcement. 

AIBaiting

Tracy Alloway used to be deputy editor of FT Alphaville. Here she learned the details of derivatives, the absurdities of accounting and the various structures of ... erm ... structured finance. She now covers big US banks for the FT paper, including Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. She pops up on FT Alphaville every once in a while.

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| Oct 18 2010 10:54 | Comment |

Irish bank bail-out outrage du jour comes courtesy of Guido Fawkes.

The British political blogger has unearthed a purported copy of Anglo Irish’s foreign bondholders as of October 15 — quite a feat given Ireland’s finance minister Brian Lenihan once said he was unable to do the same. Read more

CEBS says the stress tests were JUST FINE

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| Sep 08 2010 17:20 | Comment |

We weren’t that taken aback by the WSJ’s recent, ah, exposé revealing that Europe’s recent stress tests were – shock! – perhaps less than helpful on the actual exposure of banks to risky sovereign debt.

But at least someone has taken it rather personally. Read more

Das Stressometer

Tracy Alloway used to be deputy editor of FT Alphaville. Here she learned the details of derivatives, the absurdities of accounting and the various structures of ... erm ... structured finance. She now covers big US banks for the FT paper, including Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. She pops up on FT Alphaville every once in a while.

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| Aug 03 2010 08:18 | Comment |

CreditSights has created a sort of EU bank stressometer.

In their words, it seeks to “exploit” the additional disclosure on sovereign risk published in the CEBS-administered European bank stress tests. And while it’s very fun to play around with (yes, FT Alphaville is easily amused) it won’t do much to help alleviate still lingering questions surrounding certain missing exposure to Greece — specifically within the German banks. Read more

About that other ‘P’ in peripheral

Izabella Kaminska joined FT Alphaville in October 2008. Before that she worked as a producer at CNBC, a natural gas reporter at Platts and an associate editor of BP's internal magazine.

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| Jul 27 2010 10:59 | Comment |

Here’s a somewhat surprising finding from BNP Paribas’ Bartosz Pawlowski.

A closer look at the adverse scenario assumptions made by the Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) for use in the European stress tests reveals one particular recession-defying European country high up in the sovereign haircut leagues. Read more

Germany accused on bank tests

| Jul 26 2010 04:41 | Comment |

European regulators have accused Germany and its banks of reneging on a deal to publish full details of sovereign debt holdings, as part of the four-month-long stress test exercise of the country’s banking sector. Arnoud Vossen, secretary-general of the Committee of European Banking Supervisors, told the FT the CEBS would talk to German regulators about the failure of at least 6 of 14 German banks to publish information. The CEBS on Friday issued test results showing that seven of the 91 EU banks tested failed to achieve a tier one capital ratio of 6% under a series of macroeconomic scenarios for 2010-11. Read more

Stress Test Special – Markets Live at 4.45BST

| Jul 23 2010 15:49 | Comment |

If you’re thinking it’s an odd time to be holding a special session of our regular Markets Live chat, well that’s the Committee of European Banking Supervisors for you. It has chosen the close of play in Europe on a Friday as the perfect time to formally release the results of the European bank stress tests.

So join Paul Murphy, Joseph Cotterill, Stacy-Marie Ishmael and Izabella Kaminska at 4.45pm London time, 11.45am New York time to discuss the results. Read more

The Stress Test Guide

Tracy Alloway used to be deputy editor of FT Alphaville. Here she learned the details of derivatives, the absurdities of accounting and the various structures of ... erm ... structured finance. She now covers big US banks for the FT paper, including Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. She pops up on FT Alphaville every once in a while.

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| Jul 23 2010 08:15 | Comment |

Stress test Friday is upon us. At 5pm London time/6pm Central European time/12pm Eastern Time, the Committee of European Banking Supervisors is scheduled to publish an aggregate summary of the results of the European bank tests. From then on, individual results will be published on an ad hoc basis by the banks or their national regulators. FT Alphaville will be holding an extra-special stressed-out session of Markets Live from just before 5pm London time (12 noon NYC) onwards, which will see the fabulous and predictively-gifted Paul Murphy handle market and analyst reaction to results. In the meantime though — here’s a handy Q&A courtesy of Goldman’s Nick Kojucharov. Read more

The incredible restructured stress test

Joseph joined FT Alphaville way back in March 2010. He likes all the politically and legally fiddly bits of finance. He also likes credit, rates, global macro, tail risk, and all that stuff. (You should email him story ideas. He’ll take anything.)

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| Jul 22 2010 17:22 | Comment |

Analysts are down to their last gasps of stress-test commentary before we finally get the official results on Friday. Credit Suisse had a useful contribution on Thursday, tackling the queasy ‘everyone’s a winner!’ hints that politicians have been dropping.

Basically — we should hope so, given the bailouts already in the system. Read more

Stress-test rumours and reality

| Jul 22 2010 09:30 | Comment |

Leaks and rumours abound ahead of European stress-test result day, not least because the test results could include more information than earlier thought, says FT Alphaville. EU regulators are now reportedly likely to release the results earlier than planned, seeing them hit during European trading hours. European markets would have been closed if the CEBS had released results according to their original schedule. Read more

Some stressful reading for the CEBS

Tracy Alloway used to be deputy editor of FT Alphaville. Here she learned the details of derivatives, the absurdities of accounting and the various structures of ... erm ... structured finance. She now covers big US banks for the FT paper, including Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. She pops up on FT Alphaville every once in a while.

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| Jul 22 2010 08:50 | Comment |

Is the CEBS reading this little paper ahead of Friday’s stress tests?

The Information Value of the Stress Test and Bank Opacity  Read more

EU banks ‘may disclose’ sovereign holdings

| Jul 22 2010 05:39 | Comment |

Europe’s largest banks may give breakdowns of their sovereign-debt holdings when they issue stress-test results on Friday, according to a document from the Committee of European Banking Supervisors obtained by Bloomberg. European regulators have asked the region’s biggest banks to publish a list of their gross and net exposure to central and local governments in 30 countries in the region, which could be published on Friday alongside information about their financial health, reports Bloomberg. Read more

Stress tests said to describe three scenarios

Tracy Alloway used to be deputy editor of FT Alphaville. Here she learned the details of derivatives, the absurdities of accounting and the various structures of ... erm ... structured finance. She now covers big US banks for the FT paper, including Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. She pops up on FT Alphaville every once in a while.

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| Jul 21 2010 04:38 | Comment |

European regulators plan to detail three scenarios when they publish the results of their stress tests on the region’s banks this week, according to a document prepared by the Committee of European Banking Supervisors and obtained by Bloomberg. Banks will publish their estimated Tier 1 capital ratios under a benchmark for 2011, an adverse scenario and a third test that includes “sovereign shock,” the newswire says. Meanwhile, the FT reports that market scepticism about the credibility of the tests intensified on Tuesday as results began to leak that showed far fewer banks than expected have failed. Results are due to be published on Friday. FT Alphaville has the schedule – along with European bank short interest. Read more

The refined European bank haircut

Tracy Alloway used to be deputy editor of FT Alphaville. Here she learned the details of derivatives, the absurdities of accounting and the various structures of ... erm ... structured finance. She now covers big US banks for the FT paper, including Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. She pops up on FT Alphaville every once in a while.

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| Jul 15 2010 08:30 | Comment |

Forget questions over sovereign bond haircuts — they’re a definite go in the eurozone banking stress tests, even if you disagree about the amounts in play, FT Alphaville writes. The real issue is where the haircuts will fall – on trading books, or on held-to-maturity assets as well. Now Barclays Capital’s had the idea of applying losses to HTM assets with maturities beyond 2012, on the rationale that near-term sovereign defaults look less likely in Europe. Read more

EU names 91 stress test banks

| Jul 08 2010 04:04 | Comment |

European regulators on Wednesday night published details of its exercise to stress test the continent’s banking industry, identifying 91 banks being probed, reports the FT. After heated talks between national watchdogs, the Committee of European Banking Supervisors, the EU regulators’ umbrella body, said the banks – including 27 institutions in Spain, 14 in Germany and six in Greece – would be subjected to a scenario that assumed a 3 percentage point deviation of European GDP from official EU forecasts over a two-year period. FT Alphaville has key features of the tests. Read more

EU wrangles over stress tests

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| Jul 07 2010 21:46 | Comment |

European regulators were locked in heated talks until late Wednesday over the EU’s moves to stress test the continent’s banks, the FT reports. The Committee on European Banking Supervision, the EU’s regulatory umbrella body, was to have published details of its stress-testing exercise early on Wednesday, but the process was delayed by disagreements over disclosure of the stress scenarios, particularly relating to the banks’ sovereign debt holdings. FT Alphaville has the key features of the tests, as finally released. Read more

CEBS reveals stress test details (at last)

Izabella Kaminska joined FT Alphaville in October 2008. Before that she worked as a producer at CNBC, a natural gas reporter at Platts and an associate editor of BP's internal magazine.

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| Jul 07 2010 19:31 | Comment |

It’s finally out!

The Committee of European Banking Supervisors has finally released (as promised) the details of Europe’s banking stress tests. Read more