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  • The success of the UK’s ring fencing rules, which one analyst described as “the worst idea the [Financial Conduct Authority] has ever put forward” will rely on the UK’s courts, which will have to agree how to transfer customers and assets for eight UK banks. The court process will start in November and kick into high gear ahead of the final deadline of January 2019.
  • Third quarter profits in Royal Bank of Canada’s capital markets business fell by 4% on Wednesday, a C$24m drop that the bank attributed to benign market conditions and low volatility.
  • Deregulation proposals from the US Treasury Department could be a blessing for foreign banks, which are struggling with trapped capital and costly restructurings in their US units — and falling further behind their thriving US competitors. But reform could be further away than ever, as the Trump White House staggers into self-inflicted crisis.
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    The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) has urged European lawmakers not to give resolution authorities greater powers to limit cash outflows from struggling banks, weighing into a heated debate about planned changes to the Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive (BRRD).
  • John Wade has joined Mizuho Securities as head of debt capital markets for Asia Pacific, based in Hong Kong.
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    Those who took losses when the Single Resolution Board (SRB) put Banco Popular into resolution and approved its sale to Santander are lining up to dispute the decision — but lawyers are sceptical over whether the claims can succeed.