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  • Regulators are helping those banks most at risk of failing to meet their minimum requirements for own funds and eligible liabilities (MREL) by giving them extra time to prepare, a report from the European Banking Authority said this week.
  • HSBC’s new strategic plan involves numerous changes to its investment banking division, including shifting resources to Asia and the Middle East, reducing the scale of many operations in the European markets business, and combining product functions with commercial banking.
  • The European Commission has opened a public consultation on MiFIR/MiFID II, as it takes stock of two years of the sweeping regulations.
  • The first fully public syndicated sale of senior ABS backed by Italian non-performing loans in recent years has tempted five new investors to buy into the NPL asset class. Ten buyers were allocated bonds in the landmark deal, Futura 2019.
  • Royal Bank of Scotland — or NatWest Group, as it plans to rebrand itself later this year — is set to cut back risk-weighted assets in the investment bank, particularly in rates. The bank also committed to stricter lending and underwriting criteria for fossil fuel companies.
  • One of the most prominent debt bankers at HSBC has left the firm, as the reorganisation of senior management under interim CEO Noel Quinn continues.