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  • European authorities are growing more concerned about the quality of additional tier one instruments as regulatory capital, with the Bank of England saying it may bar AT1 from counting towards banks’ leverage ratios and Sweden’s regulator looking set to break with market precedent by effectively requiring its banks to issue trigger levels as high as 8%, writes Graham Bippart.
  • The Asia Securities Industry & Financial Markets Association (Asifma) has released its proposals for increasing the transparency of private bank rebates, recommending that they are written into offering circulars (OC).
  • Indian capital markets are set for a boost following the publication of the first budget from the new government on July 10. ECM activity should pick up after the country raised the disinvestment target for the 2014-15 fiscal year to Rp584bn ($9.8bn). The budget also gave Indian borrowers an incentive to explore international bond markets.
  • Institutional investors are set to play a bigger role in China’s A-share market after the country’s regulator changed the approval process for setting up mutual funds into a register-based system.
  • The Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee said additional tier one (AT1) debt may be an "inappropriate" means of meeting leverage ratio requirements, in a paper published last Friday. The FPC said it might also consider completely barring banks from using AT1 in the leverage ratio calculation.
  • A recent memorandum of understanding signed between Bank of China (BoC) and the Japan Exchange Group (JPX) is expected to see the development of an RMB-denominated bond market as well as broader trading and clearing services.