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  • The European Parliament’s legal service has hit back against a proposal by the European Central Bank (ECB) to make banks provision non-performing loans (NPLs) more aggressively, as analysts grilled the management teams from Italy’s largest banks on how they could handle the problem.
  • Unclogging the balance sheets of Europe’s banks has been a long and painful process, and one that has inhibited the region’s growth and recovery. But, as Bill Thornhill reports, the first securitization of non-performing loans without a government guarantee by a Portuguese bank this week is a crucial development for Europe’s heavily burdened banking sector.
  • A tidal wave of compliance projects may not be the only outcome of MiFID II — the new regulations due to come into force on January 3 may push fixed income markets towards technological advance.
  • The International Swaps and Derivatives Association on Thursday revealed that it is once again accepting applications for the role of Determinations Committee secretary, a body that carries out administrative duties for credit derivatives committees.
  • Ipreo’s Investor Access product, which allows investors to place orders for new bond issues directly into the book, and receive deal updates without the intervention of banks’ sales teams, has had a string of new banks sign up in the year since it launched. But some of the biggest players in the bond market have yet to commit.
  • Chinese regulators are considering allowing mainland-based holders of Hong Kong-listed stocks to freely convert shares into H-shares, in a move that could open up swathes of liquidity in the city. Details are limited at this stage, but the decision would be a game changer for issuers and investors in Hong Kong’s equity market, market observers said this week.