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Reviews of key areas of legislation such as MiFID II, bank capital requirements and Solvency II have been pushed into the future, as the European Commission puts green and digital regulation first. -
A new insurance-linked security (ILS) gives investors exposure to Credit Suisse’s operational risk: the third trade of its type covering the Swiss bank and the biggest one yet. Credit Suisse can receive relief on regulatory capital from insurance policies related to non-financial risk.
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The Single Resolution Board will take what it describes as a "forward looking" approach with banks that might struggle to meet their minimum requirements for own funds and eligible liabilities (MREL), though it will also be sticking to its original deadlines for these targets.
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Rating agency Fitch says that the bleak economic outlook has exposed many of Germany’s banks’ weaknesses, prompting it to take action on the ratings of many of them. Deutsche Bank could become one of Europe’s banks most affected by the recession.
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Some fear a sorry fate for European private debt funds, as small and medium-sized businesses across the continent struggle to stay afloat amid the devastation caused by Covid-19. Symon Drake-Brockman, founder and managing partner of Pemberton Capital Advisers, one such private debt fund, spoke to GlobalCapital’s Silas Brown about the pandemic and the prospects for private credit in its wake.
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Market participants are expecting a gigantic take-up in the next round of the European Central Bank's Targeted Longer-Term Refinancing Operations (TLTRO III), after the central bank said that it would accept a much broader range of assets as collateral in the scheme. Smaller banks are likely to be among the biggest winners, with the new criteria helping them to look after their liquidity coverage ratios.
