The largest and most complex US banks have mostly been able to keep their regulatory risk scores in check as they try to keep capital buffer requirements from rising further.
Risk scores, which determine capital surcharges for the eight US global systemically important banks (G-SIBs), increased sequentially in the first quarter, but not by enough to push most of the big banks into a higher capital surcharge bucket, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence data. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. was the lone exception.
Through most of 2022, Goldman had been on track for a 3.5% surcharge starting in 2024 but managed to cut that to 3.0% by the end of the year. Changes to Goldman’s risk score…
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G-SIB surcharges stabilize at big US banks as other capital increases loom
