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Nobody really believes that €126bn of debt issued under English law will stop counting towards the minimum requirement for own funds and eligible liabilities (MREL) as soon as the UK leaves the EU. So why should European authorities pretend that it’s a risk?

The Banque de France has set out its own criteria for the linguistics of the Basel reforms — if only reaching an agreement was as easy.

If Qatar does go ahead with a bond, it needs to be the one being selective about which banks it will work with.

Recent deals are breathing life into a dim sum bond market that has faced a drought in supply. And with market conditions turning in the sell side’s favour, more issuers should syphon off this renminbi funding stream.

The Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE) wants Panda bond issuers to raise RMB funding in Shenzhen for Belt and Road projects, the governments of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau plan new scheme to allow greater use of renminbi in the region, and the Moscow branch of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) becomes an interbank FX lending member.

The head of China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) says financial regulations in China will become stricter in future, the Chinese economy grows by 6.8% in the third quarter, the US backtracks from labelling China a currency manipulator ahead of president Donald Trump’s visit to China.

The scores have been counted and the results are in. The BondMarker voters have delivered their verdict on last week's crop of benchmarks, including a scintillating pair of deals from supranationals. Two deals from French agencies met with drastically different levels of approval from the BondMarker voters, but both fared better than Land NRW.

As winter creeps up on us, it is time to celebrate that cherished time of year when people come together in a spirit of love, fraternity, and violent rivalry. Yes, it is awards season.

Vice-chair of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) Anneli Tuominen has said that the body could issue a warning on Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs), a method of capital raising using cryptocurrencies on a blockchain.

In recent years, the European Union has reformed in the teeth of a crisis. Banking Union was sketched out on the back of a napkin to help break the “sovereign-bank doom loop” which was threatening peripheral economies. The financing vehicles of the European Financial Stability Fund and then the European Stability Mechanism were called into being to rescue states whose finances were already weak.

Vincom Retail is treading new ground in Vietnam’s snail-paced listing market, aiming to list its shares just two weeks after the IPO. But any hopes that this will be the dawn of a new age may be dashed. The big deals set to follow are a slew of privatisations — and Vietnam’s state-owned enterprises are notoriously tardy.

Xi Jinping's first term has seen a series of concrete steps taken towards opening up the country's capital markets. With the five-yearly Party Congress starting this week, it is now time for China's leadership to take the leap from granting access to giving global investors real influence on the market.