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The International Swaps and Derivatives Association and Global Financial Markets Association have opposed changes to pillar one of the Basel II accord proposed by the Basel Committee for Banking Supervision.
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A year ago, to call the investor base for new-style bank capital instruments truly global would have been pushing it. Nowadays, the boast is not such a stretch, with Europe finally beginning to take a bigger role, most evident in the recent BBVA AT1 trade, US retail firmly behind the product, the US institutional bid gaining strength and Asian private banks as hungry as ever. Philip Moore reports.
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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.