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The Loan Market Association (LMA) is lobbying the European Banking Authority (EBA) for an extension to the proposed June 2020 deadline for the regulator’s implementation of its guidelines on loan origination and monitoring, with the industry body claiming financial institutions need longer to implement the new procedures. -
An increase in the consumption tax rate will hit Japan’s economy, analysts warn. Alongside a strong yen and global growth fears, this is likely to push the Bank of Japan into further easing measures. With banks creaking under the strain of low rates, Japan’s central bank, under governor Haruhiko Kuroda, will have to concoct a delicate mix of stimuli. Reported by Jasper Cox, ahead of the Bank of Japan’s September meeting
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A surge in international bank issuance has carried on almost uninterrupted in the yen market this year, even after the Japanese Financial Services Agency raised the bar on investments in total loss-absorbing capital (TLAC).
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Barclays is paying $6.3m to US authorities to settle charges that it won business from foreign government officials by offering their relatives and friends internships and jobs.
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In this round-up, the US and China set a date for the next round of negotiation in Washington DC, MUFG and Mizuho receive approval to underwrite onshore Chinese bonds and China’s industrial profits growth edges down in August.
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In this round-up, Japanese firm Daiwa Securities gets the green light to set up a majority-owned brokerage in the Mainland, FTSE Russell does not include Chinese bonds in its indices and NetEase reveals plans to raise pigs.
