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There is no reason why euro swaps trading would have to leave London where it is overwhelmingly concentrated, dealers believe, even if Brexit leads European authorities to insist that clearing of the contracts takes place within the Eurozone.
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Confusion reigns over Europe’s plans to impose margin on uncleared swaps, with the European Commission facing calls from supervisory bodies to pick up its pace on implementing the rules, as an industry survey found that banks are woefully unprepared to meet the deadlines.
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Credit and equity fund managers taking off hedges may have contributed to the resilience of these markets in the wake of the UK's EU referendum, according to derivatives traders, but a cocktail of calamities this week hinted at a precarious exposure to any further sudden moves. -
The parlous condition of the European banking system keeps coming back to haunt the global economy, with the latest attack of lurgy coming from Brexit. The UK electorate’s vote to leave the EU has laid bare the weak credit quality of lenders, a state of affairs that needed little revealing.
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Pakistan’s equity capital markets are on the verge of a well needed boost, after the country’s financial regulator set out plans to develop and grow them over the next two years.
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China’s foreign exchange and interbank money market announced on Wednesday that foreign financial instituions conducting FX forward-trading will have to start setting aside reserves later in the year.
