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Bank intermediaries eye resurgence in profitable trades
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The European Commission made the planned delay to the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive rules official on Wednesday, formally proposing an extra year before the rules need to come into force. The market had expected a delay, as regulators and market participants alike were set to miss the deadline to build and test technical systems.
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European credit and equity markets suffered a sustained battering this week with financial borrowers facing ever greater scrutiny in the wake of poor results and concerns about their ability to meet coupon payments. -
European credit markets, led by the banking sector, have seen risk escalate over the past several weeks with the Markit iTraxx Europe Main index seeing its spread widen to the highs of June 2013. One bright spot however, has been the region’s sovereign credit, which has largely steered clear of the contagion that developed in the corporate market.
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Financial market regulators finally have something to cheer about, after a host of recent setbacks, as Europe and the US this week took a big step towards aligning their treatment of central counterparties (CCPs). But the move could also heighten competition for clearing banks in Europe.
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Nomura has hired James Milligan from HSBC as head of flow credit in global markets for EMEA.
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Europe and the US have taken a big step towards cohesion on their treatment of central clearing counterparties (CCPs), with the European Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission unveiling a common approach towards equivalence between the two CCP regimes.
