A grateful hat tip to the FT’s Shahien Nasiripour for constructing and sending us the following basic spreadsheet.
It shows the discrepancy between the Fed’s estimates of how the largest banks would perform in its latest stress test scenario, versus how the banks themselves said they would fare (click to enlarge): Read more
Quite the rally in T-bills… continuing apace on Friday, now that the Transaction Account Guarantee has become increasingly, quietly, talked about in the past tense ahead of a year-end renewal deadline.
(Chart of the 1-year T-bill, click to enlarge. The yield on a T-bill maturing in January was close to zero at pixel time) Read more
Fresh from the Fed. (And FDIC, and OCC) Read more
Although actually, this is being touted as “the first civil fraud suit brought by the Department of Justice concerning mortgage loans sold to Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac,” directed at Countrywide/BofA. (Touted by the DoJ, of course)
Goldman’s Q3 is out, and it’s raised the roof in trading / the dividend:
The Board of Directors of Group Inc. increased the firm’s quarterly dividend to $0.50 per common share from $0.46 per common share…
As the FT reports, total net revenues doubled, to $8.35bn, and it’s a marked changed from the third quarter last year.
Although, does this count for something? — 1 per cent quarterly growth in FICC: Read more
US banks as one of the last big carry opps, really? Chart via Ralph Axel at BofA Merrill Lynch:
JP Morgan’s second-quarter 10-Q is out – and so is its restated filing for the first quarter.
Of course, the bank has already opened the kimono (as Jamie Dimon might say) on the unwinding – and transfer to its investment bank – of the synthetic credit trades built up by its Chief Investment Office. Read more
*JPM $4.4B PRETAX LOSS FROM CIO TRADING LOSS
*JPMORGAN 2Q EPS EX-DVA $1.09, EX ALL GAINS 67C, EST. 76C Read more
Click for Goldman’s ‘living will ‘ for regulators, listing how it would try to resolve by selling parts of its business under bankruptcy:
Why is CreditSights highlighting JPMorgan’s late-2008 shift from a 99 per cent to 95 per cent confidence interval* in its Value-at-Risk measurement, here?
In hindsight, CIO’s traders did not have the requisite understanding of the risks they took…
JPMorgan’s chief executive Jamie Dimon is up before the US Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs on Wednesday, to discuss “A Breakdown in Risk Management: What Went Wrong at JPMorgan Chase?”. (Here’s the testimony Jamie prepared earlier.) Read more
Portrait of a bank capital-counting model in trouble – charts via Barclays Capital:
Trouble getting this stuff through compliance…?
Just the one tweet so far from Goldman Sachs on its own shareholder meeting. Read more
NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) announced today that Ina Drew, Chief Investment Officer, has made the decision to retire from the firm. Ina has served the firm for more than 30 years, most recently as head of our Chief Investment Office.
Matt Zames, currently co-head of Global Fixed Income in the Investment Bank and head of Capital Markets within the Mortgage Bank, will succeed Ina as the firm’s Chief Investment Officer and continue in his mortgage-related responsibilities. Matt will also join the firm-wide Operating Committee. Daniel Pinto, currently co-head of Global Fixed Income with Matt, will become sole head of the group. Daniel will also remain CEO of our Europe, Middle East and Africa region, based in London. Read more
They had one, BofA had none — sorry, we couldn’t resist the tease. From Goldman’s first-quarter 10-q:
Spotted by the FT’s Shahien Nasripour in Bank of America’s latest 10-Q filing — a perfect positive trading record in the first quarter:
Earlier this year the Fed proposed new rules that would limit banks’ exposure to each other even more than the Dodd-Frank reforms, coming into force next year, already demand. The banks went away to think about it, and it’s safe to say they have some concerns. Goldman Sachs, in fact, has sent the Fed 20 pages-worth of its concerns just ahead of a meeting in New York today with Daniel Tarullo, the Federal Reserve governor, and assorted big bank executives.
In short, Goldman summarises, “parts of the Proposed Rules appear likely to damage, rather than strengthen, the systemic safety of the US financial sector and ultimately the US economy.” Oh, and it’s going to cost the US up to 300,000 jobs according to their calculations and cut economic growth by up to 0.4 per cent. Read more
Charts via Nomura’s European bank analyst, Jon Peace:
Three’s a trend — Citi’s joined JP Morgan and Wells Fargo in reclassifying home equity (junior lien mortgage) loans as bad assets this quarter.
From a footnote in its Q1 results: Read more
Bit of a Volcker Rule/whither market-making talker from the WSJ… BlackRock is back touting post-bank ‘internal’ trading for its clients.
Feels like it’s been building a trading platform since forever actually… Read more
Something on the Treasury sell-off last week from RBC’s Michael Cloherty, which we found interesting… it’s another theory about what caused the selling, and whether it’s ‘the big one’ for risk.
We noted earlier that during the sell-off, the yield curve flattened, i.e. the rise in yields on longer-dated bonds was more or less matched at the short end. Whereas you might expect (say) 30-year Treasuries to be particularly sold off, if a fundamental paradigm shift in real rates is suddenly here. So – Cloherty says the selling of short-dated bonds reeks of a carry trade being closed out. Read more
(BN) Citigroup, SunTrust Banks Capital Plans Fail Fed Stress Tests
Also Ally Financial and MetLife [update: and SunTrust]. Full – Jamie Dimon-bumrushed – Fed release here. Remember the minimum pass was a five per cent tier one common equity ratio. Citi came in with 4.9 per cent. Read more
NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) today announced the following actions taken by its Board of Directors:
- Declared a quarterly dividend of $0.30 per share on the corporation’s common stock, an increase of $0.05 per share. The dividend is payable on April 30, 2012 to stockholders of record at the close of business on April 5, 2012 Read more
Released by the Justice Dept on Monday. First — the Complaint by US government agencies against Bank of America Corporation, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Wells Fargo and Company, Citigroup INC. and Ally Financial Inc.
(Click image for full doc) Read more
Last year was the first year in decades that no new bank was created in the United States, the FT reports. Three ‘new’ banks were created from the takeover of failed lenders, but no so-called ‘de novo’, or freshly-chartered, start-ups. It is the first time since 1984 that no de novo banks have appeared. Last year’s total of three banks was itself the lowest annual number since records began in 1934. The largest US banks are meanwhile struggling with the Fed’s plans to release far more data about net income and revenues in its latest stress tests, the WSJ says. Read more
Bank of America stops pricing and piping over new mortgages to Fannie. BofA will take its high-quality housing collateral elsewhere in this town, obviously. (?)
From the latest 10-K anyway: Read more
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