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April 6, 2020
The last weekend of March saw the Spanish Government make the isolation measures in the country more restrictive, bringing a halt to all non-essential activity in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. Activities considered essential include those carried out by financial services companies, including banks.
March 15, 2019
This paper evaluates the macroeconomic effects of taxes on banking in a small open economy in a currency union for three tax alternatives: an additional tax on profits, on deposits, and on loans. We propose a DSGE model with a rich detail of taxes and a banking sector and show that these three taxes are equivalent in their effects on macroeconomic variables.
November 19, 2018
The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has released its 2018 list for the Global Systemically Important Banks (G-SIBs). The total number of G-SIBs decreases to 29 (from 30). The three key changes versus the prior list are: i) one bank in (BPCE); ii) two outs (Nordea and RBS) and iii) two banks shift to a lower bucket (Bank of America and China Construction Bank).
November 21, 2017
There are three main changes versus the previous list: RBC enters in the 1% bucket and Groupe BPCE exits the list. Bank of China and China Construction Bank rise from the 1% to the 1.5 % bucket. Citigroup falls from the 2.5% to the 2% bucket; BNP Paribas from the 2% to the 1.5% and Credit Suisse from the 1.5% to the 1%.
January 18, 2017
The Supporting Factor was introduced in Basel III with the aim of avoiding a reduction in the flow of new credit to SMEs, and the CRR revision published in November 2016 even proposes enlarging its scope to exposures above €1.5bn (but with a lower parameter).
August 8, 2016
The results of the European bank stress tests published a few days ago were passed by almost all of the banks considering that only one Italian bank and one Irish bank would have shown a capital shortfall compared to last year’s minimum capital threshold.
December 11, 2015
BBVA Research USA would like to invite you to our conference call on Thursday, December 17, at 10am (CDT). The presentation will address how digital innovations will contribute to the future path of productivity growth and whether U.S. productivity growth can reverse its path and switch into high gear mode in the long run. The call will be followed by a Q&A period.
December 12, 2014
On 9 December the Board of the Federal Reserve proposed a methodology to identify the global systemically important banks (GSIB) that operate in the US. The proposal also determines the additional capital surcharge that these banks will be subject to beginning on January 2016 (GSIB buffer). The proposal is open to public consultation until 28 February 2015.
December 3, 2014
This month we focus on: G20 leaders, time to shift the dial towards growth; TLAC, making bail-in feasible and credible instead of bail-out; restoring confidence in risk-weighted capital ratios; Basel Committee published the final version of the NSFR; European banking structural reform; the ECB published the fourth Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) quarterly report and proportionate regulation for electronic money.
July 7, 2014
Law 10/2014 for the arrangement, supervision and solvency of credit institutions continues the transposition into Spanish law of the European solvency rules ('CRD IV pack'), which in turn largely implements the new global prudential framework, known as Basel III.
April 23, 2012
