New FSA guidance provides no better treatment
The UK’s Financial Services Authority has released further guidance on additional areas of the Regulated Covered Bond regime, which sets out minimum expectations. Issuers and analysts welcomed the increased oversight but felt that, if the regulator had really wanted to convince international investors about the quality of UK covered bonds, it would have made them eligible to be held in bank’s liquidity buffers.
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