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  • The two major Canadian investment banks, Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) and TD, reported fourth quarter and full year results this week, and demonstrated starkly differing performances in their wholesale divisions.
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    The European Banking Authority said in a consultation paper that it expects that the Minimum Requirement for Own Funds and Eligible Liabilities (MREL), to be applied to EU banks, to be “compatible” with the Financial Stability Board’s proposal for Total Loss Absorbing Capacity (TLAC).
  • The European Union’s insurance companies are particularly vulnerable to a prolonged low interest rate environment like the one seen in Japan in recent years, according to the results of a stress test of EU insurers by the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority.
  • Dutch banks have been given the official green light to issue additional tier one bonds, after the country’s First Chamber of Parliament voted to pass a proposal allowing additional tier one coupon payments to be tax deductible.
  • UK Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne’s promise to “ensure that all businesses and individuals pay their fair share, including by restricting the amount of banks’ profits that can be offset by carried forward losses”, is little more than window-dressing, which reschedules the use of deferred tax assets, but will have little impact in the long term.
  • FIG dealmaking will return in 2015, but it will be smaller and less exciting than it has been in the past, writes David Rothnie.