$CS reports a €1.7B Loss..Delta v Street mainly coz of Litigation, Restructuring & AllFunds equity.. but Wealth weaker given lower Market Levels & Client De-Leveraging but Gross Margins steady 83bps.. Investment Bank -40% YoY, FICC -28% YoY, Equity Flat YoY, Cap Mkts -96% YoY
Swiss Universal Bank Rev +3% YoY driven by higher NII.. Credit remains Solid w an Asset Light Biz w only a small CHF96MM provision…High Yield small US$245MM MTM loss with exposure down to $5.9B..Solid 13.5% CET1 Capital & 6.1% Leverage Ratio…Liquidity is Off Charts w 191% LCR.
$CS tangible equity up +CHF1.3B QoQ despite loss… Tangible Equity has gone up every quarter since Archegos as the Balance Sheet continues to De-Lever.. Asset Light w Swiss Resi LTVs only 45%.. Tangible Leverage down another 1.5 turns to 18.0x Ex DTAs in 2Q22.
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“European Banks Blow the Roof Off, For Now” - Bloomberg
The demise of European Banks on Russia in 1H22 was greatly Over-Exaggerated by Intelligentsia especially when citing FRA OIS gapping higher on Russia….spurious imho.. had nothing to do w Credit. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
As mentioned back in March.. FRA OIS gapped up coz…2a7 Money Funds Shortened WAM to harvest & get ahead of a battery of Fed Rate Hikes. $EUFN
Look at the Credit Cost Guidance 4all European Banks for FY22…As good if not better than US…once u get past all Obligatory Recession Disclaimers.
$EUFN mostly out of Russia…u literally need a Magnifying glass to see the extrication in Earnings, Capital & Liquidity.
So let me see here…Consumer Spending + Manufacturing are Both “Sharply” “Accelerating”….. can someone explain what exactly is weak in the Real Economy? Oh right Powell jams us into Recession coz of Yesterday’s news priced in by 2s10s silly….”It will all end in tears.” Got it.
Value now dragged down with Russia… given 2s10s Recession False Flags..& too aggressive Market Rate Hike Expectations…but we’ll get through Vol.. & the Fed acted decisively on “Inflation Expectations” .. Crushed it like a bug.. 5Y5Y at 2.74%
I Stress out Banks 9 ways 2Sunday… I’m not stressed. Banks fundamentals getting stronger as we speak. They r printing Trading Revs/NII that more than fund AOCI burn..Regs now Understating Strength..Coz ~5 turns of tangible leverage & almost 2 turns of SLR r Cash Bound by LCR.
U don’t even have 2run a DCF/Residual Income model to tell u there’s tons of Buffer 4 Credit “Normalization” that’s gonna happen w CECL in 2H22…
Even quick look at Loan Loss Reserves tells u 4example $JPM has $20B in Reserves & $2B of NCOs
IG Index trading at +119bps…
IG US Bank Index trading at +122bps… gets the benefit of Regionals that are still super tight… a good sign for Credit..if there was a Recession there’s no way Credit wouldn’t be punting Regionals…..
IG Banks would be way inside the IG Index if not for heavy Money Center GSIB TLAC Supply for the last really 12 months…this overhang might actually be coming to an end or at least slow down based on a few things:
1) SLR related Supply for HoldCo is needed less actually coz QT