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  • Hedge fund Caius Capital has written to the European Banking Authority claiming that a legacy equity-linked instrument issued by UniCredit counts incorrectly as regulatory capital. The fund believes this makes the bank’s ordinary shares ineligible as capital too.
  • HSBC announced changes to clean up its regulatory capital profile in results last Friday. But it was accused of favouring shareholders over debtholders by issuing additional tier one (AT1) debt at the same time as buying back equity.
  • The European Banking Authority has been granted a two month extension to complete its assessment of the case for European Secured Notes (ESNs).
  • Bank of China (BoC) plans to play to its strengths by deploying its balance sheet and providing liquidity to parched investors. With syndicate and trading operations in place, it has hired Tim Skeet as head of Western European origination.
  • Sixteen banks have made the most concerted effort yet at defining how to do scenario analysis on climate change — the core risk management exercise called for by the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures.
  • A panel this week involving German and Italian regulators highlighted the complications in creating a European deposit insurance scheme (EDIS) and pushing on with the banking union, with policymakers in the two countries viewing the banking sector from radically different angles.