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The chair of the supervisory board of the European Central Bank, Danièle Nouy, is absolutely correct in regretting that so much European financial regulation has been done in the form of directives. -
The UK has some of the world’s best regulators, but has ended up with some of the most poorly designed regulation. John Vickers’ criticism of the Bank of England shows why politicised regulation can be a problem.
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A former European Central Bank president has reiterated his suggestion that the European Parliament should be the final arbiter in disputes between member nations and Europe’s institutions. But that will do little to stop the big boys throwing their weight around — and would be far from a democratic process.
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India is finally set to welcome its first publicly listed infrastructure investment trusts (InvITs), with GMR Infrastructure and IRB Infrastructure Developers having officially asked the Securities and Exchange Board of India for approval to create and list their respective vehicles. But while the first deals are certainly welcome, much more needs to be done for the asset class to have a strong foundation.
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After two years of promoting renminbi internationalisation at full speed, Chinese regulators have put on the brakes as they go to extraordinary lengths to stop the currency leaving the country. Could RMB internationalisation become RMB re-nationalisation in 2016?
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The sell-off in European banks is terrifying and baffling, all at the same time. GlobalCapital would be first to admit there are still issues — poor growth, weak balance sheets, non-performing loans, defered tax assets, complex forms of untested capital cooked up in regulatory labs – but the continent’s biggest banks aren’t going anywhere. For one thing, they are still too big to fail.
