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Europe's regulator seeks to reduce complexity while 'preserving banks' resilience and resolvability'
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  • Insurance Australia Group (IAG) has launched the first catastrophe bond out of Singapore, as the Lion City seeks to become a hub for insurance-linked securities (ILS) by offering grants to issuers.
  • Metro Bank has obtained a standby underwrite for a £350m ($464m) equity raise to be completed later this year, even as short sellers circle around the bank. The miscalculation in its risk-weighted assets (RWAs) announced last month, and an expected delay in getting permission for internal models to calculate those weightings, are both damaging for its capital ratios.
  • Tim Haywood, the portfolio manager dismissed from GAM for gross misconduct, says he is appealing against his former employer’s decision.
  • The development of a harmonised European covered bond legal framework hit a new milestone on Tuesday after an agreement was reached by the European Parliament and member states on the covered bond directive, paving the way for final approval in a few weeks.
  • Standard Chartered posted stronger numbers for financial markets products last quarter than its peers, with the investment bank also reducing credit impairment levels.
  • It is richly ironic that incoming measures meant to take Europe one big step closer to completing its Banking Union have ended up recognising that nothing of the sort actually exists.