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If the European Central Bank (ECB) is serious about eventually scaling back its quantitative easing programme and encouraging a return to normal market funding, it will need all tools at its disposal. That suggests there is scope for an instrument that delivers a low cost of funding and supports the European economy. European Secured Notes (ESNs), which are likely to form part of the European Commission’s capital markets action plan, which is to be unveiled this Thursday, could provide the answer. -
Hampus Falth has started in a new syndicate job at Mizuho, after departing UBS late last year.
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José Manuel Campa, chairperson of the European Banking Authority, suggested on Monday that countercyclical capital buffers could be more effective if they were set in a harmonious way across jurisdictions.
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Agora, the end-to-end debt capital markets platform being developed by bond market veteran Charlie Berman, has closed a second funding round with support from new investors including David E. Rutter, the founder and chief executive of R3, the company behind the Corda blockchain system on which Agora will operate.
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If UBS’s reported exploration of a merger with Credit Suisse actually leads to a tie-up at some point, it would create a formidable European investment bank.
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Sweden's financial supervisor has extended its application of a risk weight floor on domestic mortgages, a measure that will help to protect senior debt by forcing banks to run with higher capital positions.
