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Credit Suisse’s catastrophe bond protecting the bank from its own operational risk losses cut more than Sfr1bn from risk-weighted assets in the bank’s Global Markets unit, following an improvement in regulatory treatment. But the Basel Committee looks set to close off this route to cutting capital costs.
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Royal Bank of Canada’s capital markets division dragged on the bank’s fourth quarter results, posting a 13% year on year decline in profits. -
Royal Bank of Scotland submitted a revised capital plan after failing the Bank of England’s 2016 stress test this week, with the UK lender’s large potential misconduct fines playing an important role in its poor test performance.
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The European Central Bank is expected to announce a six month extension of its Covered Bond Purchase Programme when it meets on December 8. However, as the programme may end after that, credit curves could steepen and spreads could widen next year. GlobalCapital spoke to a number of funding officials and other bankers to gauge their views on the topic.
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The European Commission’s package of bank regulation measures, released on Wednesday and now dubbed ‘CRD V’, will ease regulations that threatened to mean ‘game over’ for the European repo market.
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The European Commission proposed on Wednesday to extend its ‘SME supporting factor’, which gives easier regulatory treatment to SME lending, and to create a new regulatory subsidy for infrastructure.
