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Europe's regulator seeks to reduce complexity while 'preserving banks' resilience and resolvability'
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  • The European Central Bank (ECB) has said that bail-inable senior bank bonds cannot count as collateral, as part of changes tightening its eligiblity criteria. This could have a particular effect in Germany, where all senior bank bonds are statutorily subordinated.
  • The European Covered Bond Council (ECBC) has launched a consultation seeking market feedback on draft guidelines for a standardised European energy efficient mortgage.
  • LBBW has promoted Thomas Meißner to be its new head of strategy. Alexandra Schadow takes over from Meißner as head of cross-asset research.
  • Santander had lined up a “much higher bid” than the €1 it paid for Banco Popular last summer, claimed sources close to the Spanish bank’s resolution. They argued that the sales process would have been more competitive if the Single Resolution Board had allowed potential rescue bidders more time to consider their positions.
  • The European Central Bank might implement its controversial provisioning proposal for NPL inflows from April — later than originally anticipated, it said this week. But Italian lenders are now scared their existing NPLs will be on the hook next.
  • Deutsche Bank plans to put up to 40 bankers at director level and above in its EMEA investment banking division at risk of redundancy, including the bank's co-head of FIG DCM, GlobalCapital understands. Several of those put at risk were based in Birmingham, including the bank’s head of Europe-US private placements.