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SEC Charges Family Friend Of Former Investment Banker With Insider Trading

Date 02/11/2018

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged an IT professional in Texas who allegedly participated in an insider trading scheme perpetrated by a former Wall Street investment banking analyst.

Lloyds Banking Group: EBA Stress Test Results

Date 02/11/2018

Lloyds Banking Group plc (the 'Group'), together with 47 other financial institutions across Europe has been subject to the 2018 EU-wide stress test conducted by the European Banking Authority (the 'EBA'). The stress test does not contain a pass/fail threshold but is instead designed to be used as an input into the supervisory review process by assessing banks' ability to meet applicable capital requirements under stressed conditions.

Federal Reserve Board Finalizes New Supervisory Rating System For Large Financial Institutions

Date 02/11/2018

The Federal Reserve Board on Friday finalized a new supervisory rating system for large financial institutions that is aligned with the core areas most important to supporting a large firm's safety and soundness and U.S. financial stability.

Deutsche Bank: Results Of 2018 EBA Stress Test

Date 02/11/2018

Deutsche Bank’s capital position was stronger in the EBA’s 2018 EU-wide stress test than in previous years. In the 2018 stress test, Deutsche Bank’s Common Equity Tier 1 (CET 1) ratio was 13.5% under the EBA’s ‘baseline’ scenario at the end of the stress horizon in 2020, up from 12.1% in the 2016 stress test. In the hypothetical ‘adverse’ scenario, the CET1 ratio would be 8.1%, up from 7.8%.

Finansinspektionen: Major Swedish Banks Show Resilience In EU Stress Test

Date 02/11/2018

The major Swedish banks are resilient and have the ability to withstand a sharp deterioration in the market, according to the stress test conducted by the European Banking Authority (EBA).

Barclays PLC: Response To 2018 EU-Wide Stress Test Results

Date 02/11/2018

Barclays was subject to the 2018 EU‐wide stress test conducted by the European Banking Authority (EBA), in cooperation with the Bank of England (BoE), the European Central Bank (ECB) and the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB).

CFTC Financial Data For Futures Commission Merchants Update

Date 02/11/2018

Futures commission merchants (FCMs) and retail foreign exchange dealers (RFEDs) must file monthly financial reports with the CFTC's Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight (DSIO) within 17 business days after the end of the month. Selected financial information from these reports is published below. The most recent month-end information generally is added within 12 business days after FCMs and RFEDs file their reports, but occasionally may be added later. For example:  The 17th business day filing “due date" for February 28, 2015 financial reports was March 25, 2015.  The 12 business day target for posting these data was April 10, 2015.

Banco BPM: EU-Wide Stress Test Results

Date 02/11/2018

•  Particularly satisfactory results that confirm the Bank’s ability to generate value under the base scenario and resilience under the adverse scenario
• For Banco BPM the outcomes are even more important considering that the exercise rules prevented the peculiarities tied to the merger plan to be factored in, which otherwise would have contributed to further and strongly improving the achieved results, especially under the adverse scenario]
• CET 1 ratio phase-in under Baseline scenario 15.74% CET 1 ratio phase-in under Adverse scenario 8.47%

Bank Of England Statement On European Banking Authority (EBA) Stress Test Publication

Date 02/11/2018

The results of the EBA stress test published today confirm the results of earlier Bank of England stress tests that the four participating UK banks would be resilient to a severe economic and market stress. 

EBA Stress Test Shows Euro Area Banks Are More Resilient To Financial Shocks

Date 02/11/2018

• All 33 banks supervised by ECB now more resilient to financial shocks
• Banks’ average capital buffers higher, despite larger capital depletion under more severe adverse scenario than in 2016 stress test
• Average final CET1 under adverse scenario 9.9%, up from 8.8% in 2016
• Adverse scenario depletes average CET1 by 3.8 percentage points, up from 3.3 percentage points in 2016
• Banks show strong capital buffer build-up alongside efforts to address legacy assets