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  • BNP Paribas Left With Cash After U.S. Exit

    BNP Paribas Left With Cash After U.S. Exit

    BNP Paribas is exiting its U.S. retail business providing its expansion plans with a financial boost. The French bank is selling its U.S. Bank of the West – for $16.3billion to Bank of Montreal, it said in a statement Monday

    With the sale proceeds BNP Paribas could be on the lookout to buy a smaller tech company, the British newspaper writes, citing analysts who added that no deal was imminent.

    It will concentrate on expanding its business in Europe, the report says. In this context, an acquisition in Switzerland could also be an option.

    Last month BNP Paribas spotted a deal with Credit Suisse: the Swiss lender, which suffered more than $5 billion in losses on Archegos’ unwind earlier this year, offloaded its prime brokerage clients to its French counterpart.

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  • UBS Singed by Archegos

    UBS Singed by Archegos

    Switzerland’s largest bank didn’t escape the Archegos wreckage unscathed. UBS’ singing is however far from the burn that rival Credit Suisse is nursing.

    Zurich-based UBS, the sixth-largest prime broker according to data provider Preqin, also catered to troubled hedge fund Archegos. Yet the Swiss bank was mum as its crosstown rival Credit Suisse warned of a major hit against its first-quarter results.

    The damage unleashed at Credit Suisse by the hedge fund now reportedly tallies at as much as $5 billion. How did UBS, which ranks directly behind Credit Suisse in catering to hedge funds, escape a similar fate?

    The answer is that the Swiss wealth management giant didn’t entirely, according to a person familiar with the matter. UBS, silent this week as Credit Suisse issued its profit warning, is reportedly still unwinding a series of complicated instruments when it called margin on the hedge fund.

    Though estimates vary, the bank believes it will be left nursing losses of not more than low-three-digit millions from business with Archegos, the person said. The damage isn’t such that it will neither torpedo UBS’ quarterly profits nor trigger a warning, the person noted. A spokeswoman for UBS declined to comment.

    Analysts expect a quarterly profit of $1.44 billion from UBS when it reports on April 27, according to a consensus compiled by the bank itself. Executives at both banks scrambled late last week to evaluate the Archegos debris, with Swiss regulator Finma intervening early on.

    UBS’ top investment banker Rob Karoskfy, risk chief Christian Bluhm, and finance overseer Kirt Gardner were among the top executives involves. The Swiss bank apparently feels confident enough it can extricate itself from the wreckage without wiping out the quarterly progress.

    This puts UBS squarely in the camp of Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, which were both able to offload their Archegos holdings quickly. By contrast, Credit Suisse and Japan’s Nomura, which on Monday flagged a $2 billion hit, weren’t as fast.

    The episode illustrates that UBS’ risk limits held in this case, while raising manifold questions about Credit Suisse’s limits. The latter’s shares slumped more than 16 percent since the bank disclosed the Archegos hit on Monday; investors sent UBS’ shares just three percent lower over the same period.

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  • Archegos Collapse Hits Japan’s Largest Bank

    Archegos Collapse Hits Japan’s Largest Bank

    More losses from the downfall of Bill Hwang’s Archegos Capital Management have been unveiled, this time from Japan’s largest bank. Mitsubishi UFJ Group’s (MUFG) securities arm faces losses of up to $300 million related to an unnamed U.S. client, according to a statement, through its European subsidiary.

    Losses could change depending on market prices and the unwinding of the transactions, though it isn’t expected to have a material impact on MUFG’s business capability or financial soundness.

    MUFG is taking all necessary steps to manage the risk and any effect on earnings will be reflected in the fiscal year starting April 1.

    The statement is widely believed to refer to the collapse of Bill Hwang’s family office Archegos and the latest hit to MUFG brings total global bank losses to as high as $6.3 billion.

    Nomura recently warned of around $2 billion in losses reportedly also believed to be linked to Archegos. Credit Suisse was also significantly impacted with estimated losses of $1 billion to $4 billion.

    Other banks involved, such as Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank, have claimed to see little to no impact. Wells Fargo was the latest to unveil its prime brokerage relationship with Archego but said it did not experience any related losses as the bank was well collateralized at the time and no longer has any exposure.