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Regulatory harmonisation is on its way. Thanks to CRD IV and CRR, for the first time in the history of the European bank capital space, there will soon be regulation that applies in the same way in each EU state. However, as Philip Moore reports, investors will still need to make a judgement on the likely response of national regulators to banks judged to be failing or likely to fail.
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Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past five years, you will be painfully aware that banks need more capital. But how much of that desperately needed resource is going to come from the new instruments the market has waited so long for? Will Caiger-Smith examines the outlook for the bank capital market.
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Bank capital gets its name from a simple principle — it is designed to form a solid foundation upon which a bank can operate, a buffer against which it can lend. Funding instruments like senior unsecured, meanwhile, are not there to absorb losses. Or are they? Will Caiger-Smith reports.
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The financial crisis exposed significant flaws in banks’ capital structures, not least the fact that many supposedly loss-absorbing instruments proved surprisingly unfit for purpose. But over the past few years, bank capital has been transformed. Will Caiger-Smith reports on a market reborn.
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The deluge may be yet to come, but some banks have already bitten the bullet. Banks have already printed Cocos, additional tier one and tier two capital that they expect to comply with the final CRD and EBA guidelines. But it hasn’t always been an easy ride. Will Caiger-Smith reports.
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Andrea Enria, chairman of the European Banking Authority, made the following speech at the European Commission’s public hearing on EU financial supervision in Brussels on May 24 this year.