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Europe’s regulator proposes preserving capital requirements while trimming the complexity that hampers cross-border M&A
UK borrower goes alone on Thursday following FOMC rate hold
Despite a strong year for euro covered bond issuance more broadly, volumes from France are way down on last year
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Europe's regulator seeks to reduce complexity while 'preserving banks' resilience and resolvability'
Currency's higher yielding appeal has lured investors across the capital stack
Issuers seizing moment as rates stabalise and spreads hold near historic tights but some deals betray signs investors growing sensitive on price
Less frequent issuers making the most of market with strong bid for yieldy assets
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National Australia Bank attracted healthy demand for its £1bn five year Sonia-linked covered bond issued on Tuesday, pricing the deal much tighter than where Commonwealth Bank of Australia issued two weeks ago with more demand and at an equivalent cost of euro funding. -
The European Commission wants to develop new non-financial reporting standards that will compel EU companies to publish more information about the risks they face from climate change and other sustainability issues.
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Société Générale has mandated leads for a green covered bond, the second to be issued under its Positive Impact framework. At the same time Sparkasse Pforzheim Calw is due with a sub-benchmark Pfandbrief.
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More than three quarters of European banks have poor standards of internal governance, according to the European Central Bank, which warned on Tuesday that management bodies were simply 'not effective'.
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The European Central Bank (ECB) confirmed this week that it asked two financial institutions to take “remedial actions” to meet guidance levels of Pillar 2 capital.
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LBBW has revealed that most investors in its latest green bond were signatories to the UN Principles for Responsible Investment. The novel disclosure offers a ‘more reliable’ way of describing green participation in new bond issues, according to the bank.
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