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Centre for European Policy Studies Place du Congrès 1, B-1000 Brussels Tel: (32.2) 229.39.11 E-mail: [email protected] Internet: www.ceps.eu TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS .......................................................................................................................................6 ABSTRACT ........................................................................................................................................................7 1 INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................................8 1.1 Finalisation of Basel III ....................................................................................................................8 1.2 Relevance of the study ...................................................................................................................8 1.3 Reading guide .................................................................................................................................9 2 METHODOLOGY ....................................................................................................................................... 10 2.1 Data description ........................................................................................................................... 10 2.2 Estimation of the impact on banks ................................................................................................ 11 2.3 Types of banks .............................................................................................................................. 13 2.4 Types of capital ............................................................................................................................ 16 2.5 Limitations ................................................................................................................................... 17 3 IMPACT WITH UNADJUSTED BALANCE SHEETS .................................................................................................. 18 3.1 Impact across measures ............................................................................................................... 18 3.2 Capital shortfall ............................................................................................................................ 20 4 IMPACT OF CONTINUED LENDING ................................................................................................................. 23 5 ALTERNATIVE SCENARIO 1: RETAINED EARNINGS .............................................................................................. 25 5.1 BAU retained earnings .................................................................................................................. 26 5.2 Short-term effect of Covid-19 on retained earnings ...................................................................... 29 5.3 Long-term effect of Covid-19 on retained earnings ....................................................................... 30 6 ALTERNATIVE SCENARIO 2: ISSUANCE OF NEW CAPITAL INSTRUMENTS .................................................................. 31 7 ALTERNATIVE SCENARIO 3: DELEVERAGING ..................................................................................................... 35 8 ALTERNATIVE SCENARIO 4: CHANGING PORTFOLIO COMPOSITION........................................................................ 37 9 ALTERNATIVE SCENARIO 5: DIFFERENT APPLICATION OF OUTPUT FLOOR ................................................................ 39 9.1 Decoupling Pillar II requirements and guidance ............................................................................ 40 9.2 Decoupling Pillar II and non-Basel buffers ..................................................................................... 41 9.3 Covid-19 adjusted buffers ............................................................................................................. 43 10 IMPACT ON THE REAL ECONOMY .............................................................................................................. 46 10.1 Literature review: why capital requirements matter ..................................................................... 46 10.2 Impact on the real economy of capital shortfalls and banks’ strategies to adjust .......................... 48 11 CONCLUSIONS AND POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS ......................................................................................... 52 11.1 Conclusions .................................................................................................................................. 52 11.2 Recommendations........................................................................................................................ 53 REFERENCES ................................................................................................................................................... 55 APPENDIX 1. OVERVIEW OF BANKS INCLUDED IN SAMPLE .......................................................................................... 57 LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES Figure 3.1 Increase in capital requirements (as share of June 2020 RWAs) ................................................... 18 Figure 3.2 Increase in capital requirements by country (as share of June 2020 RWAs) .................................. 19 Figure 3.3 Increase in capital requirements by type of bank (as share of June 2020 RWAs) .......................... 20 Figure 3.4 Shortfall on capital by country (as share of June 2020 RWAs) ...................................................... 21 Figure 3.5 Shortfall on capital by type of bank (as share of June 2020 RWAs) ............................................... 22 Figure 4.1 Shortfall on regulatory requirement and current capital level by country (as share of June 2020 RWAs).......................................................................................................................................................... 23 Figure 4.2 Shortfall on regulatory requirement and current capital level by type of bank (as share of June 2020 RWAs).......................................................................................................................................................... 24 Figure 5.1 Retained earnings by country (as share of June 2020 RWAs) ........................................................ 25 Figure 5.2 Increase in capital due to retained earnings by type of bank (as share of June 2020 RWAs) ......... 26 Figure 5.3 Shortfall on regulatory requirement and current capital level (as share of June 2020 aggregated assets) ......................................................................................................................................................... 27 Figure 5.4 Shortfall on regulatory requirement by country (as share of June 2020 aggregated assets).......... 27 Figure 5.5 Shortfall on current capital level by county (as share of June 2020 aggregated assets) ................. 28 Figure 5.6 Shortfall on regulatory requirement by type of bank (as share of June 2020 aggregated assets) .. 28 Figure 5.7 Shortfall on current capital levels by type of bank (as share of June 2020 aggregated assets) ...... 29 Figure 5.8 Shortfall on regulatory requirement and current capital level (as share of June 2020 aggregated assets) ......................................................................................................................................................... 30 Figure 5.9 Shortfall on regulatory requirement and current capital level (as share of June 2020 aggregated assets) ......................................................................................................................................................... 30 Figure 6.1 Issuance of capital by country (as % of total number of banks) .................................................... 31 Figure 6.2 Issuance of capital by type of bank (as % of June 2020 total banks in each country) ..................... 32 Figure 6.3 Distribution of shortfall on regulatory requirement between listed and non-listed banks by country, June 2020 ...................................................................................................................................................