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The Bank of England (BoE) will begin work next year figuring out how to provide Islamic banks with Shariah-compliant liquidity facilities. Even without knowing what rates or requirements the prospective facilities will involve, the UK’s Islamic lenders — long starved of Shariah-compliant liquid assets — say anything will be better than holding cash.
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Bloomberg has launched a so-called List Trading tool for interest rate swaps on its swap execution facility, enabling market participants to improve operational efficiency.
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The Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect initiative, also known as the Through Train, this week missed its widely expected October 27 launch date. The Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEx) said on October 26 that the programme was ready to go, pending final approval from Hong Kong and Chinese regulators. -
Barclays’ drive back to health is on track – but its investment bank is a shrinking part of the story. That was the message of the bank’s third quarter results this morning, which produced a 1.5% pop in the share price at the open, soon eradicated as Barclays fell in line with the wider market.
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The dust is still settling from the results of the Asset Quality Review and bank stress tests, but it seems clear that the catharsis European officials hoped for has not materialised. The AQR, in particular, was worthwhile and bank balance sheets are more transparent. But it doesn’t follow that Europe’s banks will now embark on a lending spree. Lack of demand remains the underlying problem, which could present a challenge for Monte dei Paschi di Siena. Meanwhile, deflation looms — a scenario, incidentally, that the stress tests didn’t consider.
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Market participants have relentlessly been selling risk-reversals and volatility on the dollar against the yen, as the spot rate on the pair has largely remained range-bound over recent days.
