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Europe’s regulator proposes preserving capital requirements while trimming the complexity that hampers cross-border M&A
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Europe's regulator seeks to reduce complexity while 'preserving banks' resilience and resolvability'
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  • Bank of China’s Hong Kong-based debt syndicate head Sebastian Ha is leaving the firm next month.
  • Metro Bank’s update to the market on Wednesday has led to speculation it will need to raise capital once more. It revealed slowing loan and deposit growth, weaker than expected profits, and a greater than expected rise in risk-weighted assets chewing up its capital ratio. The update came at a time when UK banks are pessimistic about raising capital.
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    The Danish Financial Supervisory Authority has warned that banks would face trouble accessing funding in international markets if there were to be a repeat of the kind of money laundering scandal that has gripped Danske Bank, the country’s largest lender, in the last year.
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    The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority is asking for evidence on the effects of the Solvency II regime on the sustainability of firms’ assets and liabilities. But the regulator does not believe in incentivising sustainable behaviour through capital regulations at present, an idea being discussed in the banking sector.
  • Isabel Mahony, who had been head of fixed income sales and trading EMEA and Asia ex-Japan at SMBC Nikko Capital Markets, has left to the firm to join children's magazine Scoop as chief financial officer.
  • UK regulators may simplify regulations for smaller banks, depending on the outcome of Brexit, and are taking a “close interest” in a US proposal for a 9% leverage ratio.