SECTOR IN-DEPTH
15 Jun 2020|Moody's Investors Service
Peter Nerby, David Fanger and Michael Porta of the US Financial Institutions team discuss what first quarter results from Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley tell us about the initial effects of the pandemic on their balance sheets and capital.>> Read the report
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SECTOR IN-DEPTH
20 May 2020|Moody's Investors Service
Strong liquidity at many global investment banks offsets their large wholesale funding exposure, protecting creditors and shielding the banks against stressed conditions.
SECTOR IN-DEPTH
06 May 2020|Moody's Investors Service
The seven European GIBs reported an aggregate adjusted pretax profit of $9.1 billion in the first quarter, down 39% from $15.1 billion a year earlier. The decrease reflects the early effects of the coronavirus pandemic, which drove sharply higher credit impairment charges.
SECTOR IN-DEPTH
17 Apr 2020|Moody's Investors Service
The five US-based global investment banks (GIBs) reported aggregate pretax profit of $14.3 billion in first quarter 2020, down 55% from $31.7 billion in first quarter 2019. The US GIBs entered this downturn with prudent amounts of liquidity and capital and solid pretax pre-provision profitability that will help safeguard their financial profiles from many adverse scenarios.
SECTOR IN-DEPTH
15 Apr 2020|Moody's Investors Service
Under our assumed scenario of sharply reduced revenue and increased loan loss provisions, the global investment banks would record modest profitability for 2020 in aggregate and largely preserve their capital buffers, which are substantially improved since the 2007-08 financial crisis.