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The European Parliament’s legal service has hit back against a proposal by the European Central Bank (ECB) to make banks provision non-performing loans (NPLs) more aggressively, as analysts grilled the management teams from Italy’s largest banks on how they could handle the problem. -
Unclogging the balance sheets of Europe’s banks has been a long and painful process, and one that has inhibited the region’s growth and recovery. But, as Bill Thornhill reports, the first securitization of non-performing loans without a government guarantee by a Portuguese bank this week is a crucial development for Europe’s heavily burdened banking sector.
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Nomura has hired Omar Ghalloudi as head of developed markets trading in flow credit for EMEA. This is a new position.
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Proposals to review the European supervisory authorities were strongly criticised during a meeting of EU finance ministers on Tuesday. Luxembourg and Ireland led the fight against the draft plan, leaving France as its only supporter.
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Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to develop their capital markets and will look to draw up legal frameworks to develop covered bond and securitization markets.
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Credit Suisse said in its third quarter numbers that its balance sheet had been swollen by another Sfr5.2bn of operational risk assets related to RMBS settlements it reached earlier this year and last year — demonstrating the absurdity of operational risk rules that in effect charge the bank’s shareholders twice for the same offence.
