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  • The Financial Stability Board has published its hotly anticipated paper on the final round of new bank capital requirements — Total Loss Absorbing Capacity, or TLAC. But the consultation paper, rushed out ahead of the G20 meetings in Brisbane this weekend, leaves the most important questions unanswered.
  • A veteran of funding and hybrid capital at Lloyds Banking Group has switched to the investment side, taking the reins of the group's portfolio of assets to ensure it is in compliance with the liquidity coverage ratio.
  • Intesa’s corporate and investment banking arm, Banca IMI announced third quarter profit of €58.5m on Monday, nearly half the €119.7m it reported in Q3 2013, driven down by high operating costs.
  • UniCredit Group’s €2bn profit target for 2014 is within grasp after a decent set of third quarter results, which showed an improvement over last year at the group level. But the investment bank’s profits are still down on last year, despite an improvement in loan values for the first time in two years.
  • Journalists sometimes have to choose between being fast and being right. The Financial Stability Board, with its Total Loss Absorbing Capacity (TLAC) plans, has chosen to be fast, and a weaker financial system will be the result.
  • The Financial Stability Board, which is chaired by Bank of England Governor, Mark Carney, has offered its thoughts on the final round of new bank capital requirements — Total Loss Absorbing Capacity, or TLAC. This capital measure includes gone-concern capital, which absorbs losses once a bank has collapsed, protecting depositors and taxpayers, as well as existing going concern capital such as equity and additional tier one.