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The EU’s most ambitious free trade agreement to date, the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (Ceta), was delayed by a Belgian region, in a development with ominous prospects for the UK’s EU negotiations and therefore, the financial services industry in London.
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The Financial Conduct Authority’s final review of investment and corporate banking markets whiffs of the sort of light-touch regulation that aided and abetted the boom years before the 2008 financial crisis. It has looked at the wrong aspects of market behaviour and it asked the wrong questions.
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The European Central Bank has reached the limits of its covered bond purchase programme (CBPP3), according to board member Ewald Nowotny. His remarks reflect the difficulty the ECB is having sourcing bonds, but do not mean the programme is about to end. -
One month from the US regulator fining the New York unit of Mega International Commercial Bank, Taiwanese lenders are feeling the pressure and facing an unprecedented level of scrutiny on their existing loan books. But the extra paperwork should be viewed as a minor inconvenience with long-term benefits.
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Home to the world’s largest capital market, the US has what it takes to redraw the global heat map of renminbi internationalisation (RMBi) now that it has been awarded a clearing bank and the world’s second largest RMB investment quota. Yet this potential could be squandered by the upcoming presidential elections unless market forces prevail.
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The coming market rush to comply with margin rules on uncleared swaps will be a big challenge in itself, but regulators need to think hard about the unintended repo risks they are creating by requiring collateral building at breakneck speed.
