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The Bank of England’s Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) is consulting on levelling the capital playing field between the large banks, which use their own models to calculate risk, and the emerging challengers, which must use standard risk weights.
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Despite the ECB’s backstop bid, covered bond trading is a tough business. Tight spreads may help investors score mark-to-market gains, but discourage them selling since replacement assets are scarce. But the market is evolving, e-trading is on the march and traditional dealer rankings are changing too.
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Capital Intelligence Ratings (CI), which has a 35-year track record of rating banks in emerging markets, has joined forces with the European Covered Bond Council (ECBC) in a move that suggests the asset class is set to spread to new frontier regions.
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The European Central Bank released details on how its review of bank internal models will progress, a move which could see capital requirements across Europe’s large banks jump, even if the planned ‘Basel IV’ capital rules are stalled indefinitely. -
The ECB’s bank supervision unit has revealed more details about its ‘TRIM’ exercise, which, if successful, could be another nail in the coffin for Basel IV.
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Covered bond supply is likely to recover over the next week or two, particularly in core Europe where spreads to Bunds have become more attractive, which bodes well for DH Hyp’s forthcoming Pfandbrief. But for non-eurozone issuers, senior funding is likely to prove more attractive.
