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The South Korean government is set to ease rules on loan loss reserves (LLR) in a boost to banks’ regulatory capital ratios. But the changes, announced on October 7 by the Financial Services Commission, could leave lenders less prepared for IFRS 9. Fitch Ratings has warned. -
Banks may get a temporary stay of implementation on applying one of the more feared post-crisis developments in bank capital and accounting rules.
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Elke König, chair of the European single resolution board, attacked the French plan for bail-inable senior debt, arguing that it would take too long to make banks safe.
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Numerous press articles in recent years have predicted the death of single name credit default swaps. Onerous capital requirements, costly changes in market structure and alternative hedging tools have all been cited as factors driving the inexorable decline in the product.
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The UK government has lent its voice to the growing current of international opinion that expansive monetary policy has gone far enough, and may even be harming growth. Britain is set to embark on a fiscal stimulus, likely to be welcomed by financial markets.
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Global debt capital markets have seen a total of $5.23tr worth of bonds issued in the first nine months of the year, with the volume for Asia ex-Japan totalling $944bn — the highest for the period since 1995.
