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The Financial Stability Oversight Council in the US is changing the classification process for systemically important financial institutions, prompting concern about the government's extended remit over insurance, clearing and other non-financial organisations. With no hard set of rules and procedures for the new classification system yet released, lawyers are concerned that the statute is ambiguous, inherently flawed and opaque. -
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), has announced that it will allow companies to re-issue existing corporate bonds in an effort to improve the market’s weak liquidity.
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Hedge funds and asset managers are increasingly turning to short term options and short dated derivatives products as ways of maximising liquidity in an increasingly illiquid market, according to TABB Group.
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In this round-up, Société Générale opens Shanghai Free Trade Zone sub-branch, CSOP launches an RQFII government bond ETF, and China Construction Bank is likely to be next European RMB clearing bank.
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The recent move by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to lower interest rates is likely to trigger an increase in bond issuance in India’s sluggish domestic corporate bond market, say market watchers. However regulators will need to act a number of reforms if they want to truly activate the bond market.
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While financial assets are off to the races following Thursday’s announcement of €60bn a month in eurozone quantitative easing, the banking system still needs growth to take off. The bond buying programme could hurt European banks by squashing the yield curve, and leave investment banks becalmed by low rates for longer.
