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  • A European Commission expert group has suggested harmonising the two most significant post-crisis capital requirement frameworks, as well as possibly differentiating capital requirements based on bank business types.
  • Europe's banks are failing to use a capital subsidy for small and medium enterprise lending which was added into capital rules against the advice of the European Banking Authority.
  • Credit Suisse has announced that Patrick Porritt will become vice-chairman of its financial institutions group. Porritt joins from Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he was head of APAC FIG.
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    A former head of UK equity capital markets at Bank of America Merrill Lynch has been appointed chief executive of UK Financial Investments, which manages the government’s stakes in Lloyds and Royal Bank of Scotland.
  • The European Securities Markets Authority announced this week that it had taken enforcement actions on a number of shortfalls by issuers in the way they calculate Deferred Tax Assets — capital relieving accounting instruments based on unused tax losses.
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    Spreads on bank bonds have wound tighter this month on improved sentiment following more ECB stimulus, feeding greater optimism around banks' first quarter results.