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  • Global systemically important banks (G-SIBs) are going to have to raise at least $500bn equivalent of capital over the next five years in order to become compliant with the Total Loss Absorbing Capacity (TLAC) regulation proposed by the Financial Stability Board last year, according to Standard & Poor’s.
  • Banco Santander made €5.82bn attributable profit in 2014, as its gross profits rose in all its nine key markets, for the first time since 2007.
  • The European Commission plans to tackle prospectus rules, SME credit scoring, revamped securitization rules, private placements and long term investment funds in the first phase of its plans to build a capital markets union.
  • The regulatory tide has turned, and banks are no longer trusted to assess their own capital needs. The Basel Committee’s latest proposals on bank disclosure, published on Wednesday, would add detailed information on internal modelling to existing bank reporting.
  • Andrew Hauser, director of markets strategy at the Bank of England, said on Thursday market discipline must lie at the heart of attempts to fix conduct in wholesale markets.
  • Nomura reported a sharp decline in investment banking revenues and profits for the final quarter of 2014 — the third quarter of the bank’s 2014/2015 fiscal year — on Thursday. The Japanese bank suffered from plummeting revenues in its fixed income business, particularly in EMEA and the Americas.