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The Reserve Bank of New Zealand has unveiled the latest plank of its highly unusual approach to bank capital regulation. Under the proposed changes, the four large subsidiaries of Australian banks that operate in the country will have to raise billions of tier one capital and will be able to rely on loss-absorbing debt instruments far less than peers in other jurisdictions. -
2019 is likely to be another year where the independent mandate of central bankers comes under pressure from populist politicians in democracies. It is easy for those in the market to sympathise with the quiet technocrats over the loud-mouthed headbangers, but scrutiny is deserved.
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European Union member states are set to soothe banks’ concerns about having too tight a window to change their risk-free euro reference rate from Eonia, with a postponement of the transition to Ester due on Wednesday.
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Italian populists rocked Europe in 2018, bringing fresh political and market turmoil, highlighting the EU’s failures while simultaneously making it harder to solve them. When the next crisis arrives, the bloc may well rue missed opportunities to shore up the financial system.
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Participants at a Transparency Task Force symposium on Monday told representatives of three UK financial regulators they welcomed their efforts to step up oversight of the financial system’s response to climate change — but they called for regulators to be more ambitious, as scientists say the world has 12 years left to get global warming under control.
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The European Parliament and the European Council have reached an agreement on a set of measures to tackle non-performing loans in the banking sector, broadly backing the European Commission’s proposals from March.
