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The Bank of England’s Funding for Lending Scheme (FLS) has finally caught on. The last quarter saw almost as much borrowing as the entire year previously, suggesting that the banks were right all along — the reason they weren’t lending was because nobody wanted to borrow.
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Covered bond national transparency templates do not comply with standards in the EU’s Capital Requirements Regulation, according to Barclays covered bond research, despite improvements in disclosure. If covered bonds do not meet this standard, bank investors cannot apply preferential risk weights, boosting the cost of holding covered bonds.
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The large international European banks were still €36.5bn short of their target capital levels under the Basel III framework, according to the European Banking Authority’s latest Basel monitoring exercise, which looks at the period to June 2013.
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EU banks could see their leverage fall if they apply Basel III leverage ratio rules rather than using only the potentially more stringent definitions in the European Capital Requirements Regulation, according to a paper from the European Banking Authority.
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The four largest US banks have been rebalancing their portfolios of mortgage-backed securities to comply with new bank liquidity rules, but regional banks have not followed suit. At least fourteen banks with assets ranging from $57bn to $361bn are still lobbying for special treatment, but regulators’ exemptions will most likely be limited, meaning the bid for Ginnie Mae securities will likely strengthen, experts say. -
Deutsche Bank is looking to quickly replace its former head of commercial mortgage-backed securities research, and may promote one of its analysts to fill the vacancy, GlobalCapital Securitization understands.
