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Sergio Ermotti, UBS Group CEO, was widely critical of how the global financial regulatory framework has evolved, when he spoke at a panel event at the Institute of International Finance spring meeting in London on Wednesday.
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Michael Meister, parliamentary state secretary at the Federal Ministry of Finance in Germany, said that he hopes banking regulation will not stop with a single supervisory mechanism within Europe, but will go beyond that to deal more effectively with supervision of global banks.
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The Bank of England and the European Central Bank’s new paper on securitization reads like an indsustry wish-list, covering most of the themes the market has been grappling with since the wave of post-crisis regulation started to break in 2009. -
The bid/offer spread has significantly contracted since US regulation requiring certain products to be traded on swap execution facilities became effective. UBS’ aggregation model Neo has seen spreads decrease on its SEF electronic order books by approximately 50%.
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The European Securities and Markets Authority has publicly censured Standard & Poor’s over wrongly claiming France had been downgraded in November 2011. It said that S&P had failed to meet requirements of the Credit Rating Agency regulation but stopped short of imposing any fines or penalties other than the public humiliation of the notice.
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Bond market luminaries from Deutsche Bank, BNP Paribas, KfW and Legal & General met on a panel at ICMA’s AGM event in Berlin to discuss whether debt capital markets, against a backdrop of tougher regulation, squeezed margins and skinny inventories, were really fit for purpose.
