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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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Lloyd’s of London has identified several financial instruments that could boost investment in resilience against disaster. The solutions incorporate features of loans, bonds, catastrophe bonds and securitization. -
Barclays announced this week that it is calling $2.65bn of retail preference shares. The bank said it is redeeming the instrument now, several years after the first call date, due to confidence in its capital position.
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Standard Life Aberdeen announced on Wednesday that it was asking holders of a dollar-denominated tier two bond to change the documentation to reflect its new regulatory regime, after pricing a tender for other subordinated debt instruments earlier in the week.
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The European Banking Authority said this week that one of its main priorities for 2019 would be to ensure that the decision making process for the minimum requirement for own funds and eligible liabilities (MREL) is clear, credible and consistent.
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Barclays’ breakneck pace of investment into its trading businesses has borne some fruit in the third quarter of this year, with a 19% increase in markets income to £1.16bn. But banking was softer, and the results do not yet allow the firm to dismiss demands from Edward Bramson, the activist investor, to shrink the investment bank.
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The ECB would like Piraeus Bank to raise tier two capital, but issuance over the past few months has proved too difficult. The bank can afford to wait for now — but it has a challenging road ahead.
