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Scope Ratings has taken a big bet on the success of Europe’s bank resolution scheme with its covered bond rating method, published for comment on Thursday. Compared to the main rating agencies, Scope drastically downgrades the importance of covered bond collateral.
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The International Swaps and Derivatives Association is proposing a Standard Initial Margin Model process for multi-asset swap transactions to reduce initial margin and to promote transparency via risk-based modelling for market participants. -
UniCredit and Intesa Sanpaolo reported skinny profits, but knocked it out of the park compared to last year, when both banks took multi billion euro writedowns to prepare their balance sheets for forensic examinations during the European Central Bank’s Asset Quality Review.
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UBS has won a High Court fight with the hedge fund which formerly backed its structured products business, with the judge agreeing that deep cuts in UBS’s fixed income division did not breach the terms of the agreement.
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Substantially high volumes of speculative contracts on the Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index and a downsizing of short-term risk positions, predominantly by hedge funds, is displaying increased levels of risk aversion in the equity derivatives market. This comes on the back of volatility stemming from oil and currency markets which has spilled into equity options pricing, according to strategists at Société Générale.
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Malaysia’s CIMB Bank is scaling back its investment banking business in the Asia Pacific region as it seeks to reduce a ballooning cost base and cut operating costs by about 30% this year, just three years after it forked out £75m ($114m) to buy the Asian and Australian investment banking assets of the Royal Bank of Scotland. The plan saw it shutter its offices in Australia on February 9, in a bid to trim costs across its investment banking and equities franchise.
