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  • The Irish government is said to be considering a merger of EBS Building Society and Allied Irish Banks, the country’s fifth- and second-largest banks, respectively.
  • The latest round of stress testing on Irish banks has concluded with the country’s four largest requiring an additional €24 billion ($34.05 billion) of capital to withstand another crisis.
  • A plan to merge four struggling Spanish banks has collapsed over the weak state of one of the institutions known as cajas.
  • The European Commission has released its proposed directive governing the mortgage market.
  • The House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government-Sponsored Enterprises will hold a legislative hearing on eight bills Thursday designed to dramatically limit the reach of the government sponsored enterprise.
  • Faisal Ashraf has rejoined Credit Suisse’s New York-based commercial mortgage-backed securities desk, heading the firm’s large-loan structuring, pricing and execution strategy, according to a spokesman.
  • New reforms threaten to shrink the number of banks in Europe willing to provide swaps in securitization trades, according to market professionals.
  • Douglas Flint, chairman of HSBC, says regulators should increase the list of banks determined to be systemically important in the U.K. to more than 80 beyond the current 20 to 30.
  • UBI Banca, the Italian lender, says it is planning a rights issue to raise €1 billion ($1.4 billion) in fresh capital to meet an 8% Tier 1 core capital ratio required by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision.