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2015 set a number of records in the options market as traders flocked to index and volatility-linked products, but equity options volumes dipped due to factors that look likely to persist in 2016. -
The Financial Stability Board’s total loss absorbing capacity (TLAC) rules have been the lynchpin of the global effort to end ‘too big to fail’. Finalised in November, they will require global systemically important banks (G-SIBs) to have issued equivalent to 16% of their risk weighted assets in loss absorbing debt by 2019, rising to 18% by 2022.
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Much rulemaking was published in 2015, but that doesn’t mean bankers are any clearer on what it means for their businesses. And as they wade through the thousands of pages of finalised regulation, the banking industry is highly likely to be faced with additional rules — and challenges —in 2016. Graham Bippart reports.
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Blockchain, the technology underlying bitcoin, is coming to a back office, and clearing house, and bank, and front office near you. Instead of one authority keeping records, everyone will. That’s the idea, anyway, of a wave of start-ups rushing to build workable applications. How will clarity emerge from this ferment, and just how will it change the business of capital markets? Jon Hay reports.
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IPO, rights issue and equity-linked volume were all down in 2015, so the fact that block trades maintained their 2014 level of issuance made them the stand-out business of the year in equity capital markets. Now stocks participants are asking themselves if they can keep up the pace. Olivier Holmey reports.
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Investors see equity-linked debt as combining safety with upside in a happy medium. But for issuers, the product is offering happy extremes: super-high premiums, ultra-low coupons and even no equity risk. Jon Hay reports.
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