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After quitting M&A and equity capital markets in Europe and the US last year, HSBC is striving to maintain global relevance — and London and New York still have a role to play
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A securities lending market in green bonds will remain all but non-existent until volumes grow to a much larger size — but even then, borrowing bonds could remain off the table for several reasons.
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Dealers are facing increasing costs when providing clearing services to pension funds amid the regulatory push to move trades to clearing houses. The lack of netting provisions for pension funds means capital charges for dealers are high, with the result that leading banks are questioning the viability of the business without a rise in clearing prices.
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The final text of European liquidity rules allows unrated covered bonds into the asset buffers banks must hold, in a move that demonstrates the European Commission's willingness to rely less on the credit rating agencies. Unrated covered bonds sit alongside various categories of securitization in the European version of the rules, which allow far more assets to be considered liquid than originally envisaged by the Basel Committee.
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The European Banking Authority has published a report on role-based allowances which looks to close a loophole in the European Union’s bonus cap. But the document has no formal legal standing, and its instruction to national supervisors to “to ensure institutions review their remuneration policies so as to comply with the criteria highlighted in the EBA report” by the end of the year goes beyond the EBA’s power.
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Citi has expanded its Asia coverage desks to keep up with the growing number of multinational corporations from the region. -
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has released a consultation paper on real estate investment trusts (Reits), with proposals that it says will improve governance while offering more flexibility.
