FIG in Focus

 

Welcome to our regular briefing on news and views on the FIG (financial institution group) world.

 

FIG in Focus: Things to Watch Out for in Bank Credit in 2024

With 2024 just getting under way, the Adeva Financial Institutions team put our heads together to come up with what we see as the key trends impacting bank credit in 2024.

FIG in Focus: Credit Suisse - Lessons Learned

In this issue of FIG in Focus, we examine what went wrong at Credit Suisse in three parts:

1. Corporate Culture and Risk Management.

2. Stable Funding: Credit
Suisse ‘Deposit Run’.

3. Resolution: Credit Suisse
Bail-in.

Author: Andy Berry

FIG in Focus Special Edition: Silicon Valley Bank Failure

The failure of Silicon Valley Bank left many asking how a bank which a few weeks before had reported exemplary asset quality, strong capital ratios, and an apparently highly liquid balance sheet could fail so spectacularly.

Adeva Risk Specialist Andy Berry looked at SVB’s December 2022 annual report (10-K) and found some familiar themes with a couple of new twists.

FIG in Focus: Interest Rate Risk in the Banking Book

In this issue, we explore the challenges of assessing interest rate risk in the banking market.

Author: Andy Berry

FIG in Focus: Embracing ESG

 

This edition focuses on embracing the European Central Bank (ECB) policies and what we must learn to assess ESG risk.

Author: Anne-Marie Barcia

FIG in Focus: Risk Weighting Sovereign Debt

This issue of FIG in Focus is focused on Sovereign Debt,  whilst looking at the question of whether domestic sovereign bonds should be risk weighted

Author: Anne-Marie Barcia

FIG in Focus: Analysing Banks of the Future

This issue of FIG in Focus is focused on digitalisation in the banking sector and exploring what banks of the future will look like.

Author: Sarah de Quant 

FIG in Focus: Early Warning Distress Signs

Exploring why “there is no substitute for fundamental
research” when looking for early warning distress signs.

Author: Anne-Marie Barcia 

FIG in Focus: Danske Bank Estonian Sandal

Although the scale of the Danske disaster was unprecedented, we explore the underlying themes that are typical of many past operational risk scandals

Author: Sarah de Quant

FIG in Focus: Are Banks Too Liquid Nowadays

Banks have struggled to meet increasing capital requirements but seem to have much more liquidity than they really need.