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New system starts with nearly 100% coverage of trading data
Europe’s regulator proposes preserving capital requirements while trimming the complexity that hampers cross-border M&A
Banks face an uncertain future as finance goes digital
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Stifel Financial, known largely for its brokerage businesses, has become the latest US financial services firm to make a bid to win capital markets business in Europe.
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Royal Bank of Canada has made two senior hires in its London credit business as it looks to expand in financials and high yield trading. -
International Finance Corp (IFC) is set to offer a funding lifeline to Nigeria’s banks after the country sought emergency loans this weekend.
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The European Central Bank is updating its criteria for the rating agencies it uses to assess the quality of collateral it lends against in repo transactions and purchases for its quantitative easing programmes, and says it is strengthening its own due diligence processes.
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Two new working groups of the Green Bond Principles will begin work next week, on defining greenness and on impact reporting. The move is part of the green bond market’s effort to define itself more clearly, partly in the hope that governments might ultimately subsidise it.
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Last year the Markit iBoxx Euro Banks index was one of the outperforming bond sectors in Europe having returned 1%. The index, which is largely made up of bonds issued by European banks, even managed to outperform defensive sectors such as healthcare and utilities, while Europe’s regulatory oversight and relaxed monetary conditions kept market confidence in check.
