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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.
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The European Commission this week announced a banking reform package that will result in changes to the CRR and CRD IV capital requirement legislation, as well as changes to the BRRD and SRMR legislation relating to recovery and resolution of failing financial institutions. The package is very broad, so we won’t attempt to comment on all of the measures. -
The European Commission will require EU member states to create a new asset class of ‘non-preferred’ senior debt to help banks comply with bank resolution and loss-absorption standards, and it expects countries to adopt the necessary changes by June 2017.
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The European Commission has presented proposals for the treatment of covered bonds which are more favourable than those outlined by the Basel Committee, and may hasten the adoption of soft bullet and conditional pass-through structures.
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Discussions at the European Banking Authority’s public covered bond hearing on Friday centred on the triggers required to extend soft bullet or conditional pass through covered bonds. Regulators may need to set further conditions for soft bullet bonds issued by specialist banks.
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Michael Sherwood, co-CEO of Goldman Sachs International since 2005 and probably the most senior and highest profile investment banker in London, announced his retirement from the firm on Monday, after 30 years at the bank.
