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  • GlobalCapital is pleased to announce the nominees for its 2016 US Derivatives Awards. Nominations are based upon market feedback and research conducted in recent months. Winners will be unveiled at a gala dinner in New York.
  • Investment banking fees are lower as a proportion of GDP than at any time since 1995, excluding the crisis years, according to the annual Oliver Wyman/Morgan Stanley study of wholesale banking and markets.
  • It is a strange time for deeply subordinated bank debt, as the chief executive of one of the biggest issuers of additional tier one (AT1) bonds blasted the sector, and European politicians scrambled to find out how to make it more attractive to investors.
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    The European Parliament has proposed changes to MiFID II which amount to a bond industry wishlist, and could neuter the impact of the regulation on the primary debt markets.
  • The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has released a study of UK bond market liquidity arguing that regulation has not damaged bond market liquidity — a view starkly at odds with that of many market participants. The study, however, has serious limitations as a study of trading practice.
  • The US Federal Reserve added fuel to an already dramatic rally across asset classes this week, as it scaled back its expectations for rate hikes this year. This came a week after European Central Bank president Mario Draghi had worked the market into a frenzy by increasing the scope of the bank’s asset purchase programme.