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The People’s Bank of China this week signed memoranda of understanding (MoUs) for RMB clearing arrangements with the central banks of Luxembourg and France. The MoUs come after Frankfurt and London signed similar arrangements in March, and lay the groundwork for the establishment of two more RMB clearing banks in Europe.
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The European Banking Authority published its first comprehensive overview identifying the key features and practices of a prudentially sound covered bond market on Tuesday. The lengthy report provides advice to other regulators on the conditions that would justify the market’s continued preferential risk weight treatment.
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BNP Paribas will not receive any tax relief on its record-setting $8.97bn fine and will have to take the full hit to its second quarter results. As it digests the fine and one year ban from dollar clearing in its oil and gas business, the extent of the ordeal’s impact on BNP Paribas’s plans is being closely evaluated by market participants the world over. -
The Autorité des Marchés Financiers has launched a public consultation as it looks to strengthen regulation surrounding regulated markets and multi-lateral trading facilities.
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There were big increases in overall volume for Asia Pacific ex-Japan bonds, loans and equity in the first six months of 2014, with bonds and loans posting their biggest ever first half results. DCM rose by 9% from the same period in 2013, to $576bn, while loans jumped 16% to $243bn. ECM volumes were up 15% to $107bn, the highest level since the first half of 2011.
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The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has launched a study to “identify factors that may be hindering the development of sustainable securitization markets”, in a nod to the debate about whether its own proposed capital charges — among other things — are stifling the asset class.
