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• ISDA pushes for CCP 'supervisory cooperation'

  

  The International Swaps and Derivatives Association on Wednesday pushed for “enhanced supervisory cooperation” between clearing houses in the wake of Brexit.

  • 25 Apr 2018

• EC tempts insurers back to ABS buffet

  

  The European Commission intends to lower capital charges for insurance companies’ ABS holdings only two years after Solvency II rules were implemented, recognising that the low interest rate environment has led insurers to riskier investments.

  • 25 Apr 2018

• ESMA’s Steven Maijoor rejects creation of 'another ESMA'

  

  ESMA chair Steven Maijoor spoke out against proposed clearing house legislation that would create a new body within the regulator, as part of remarks to the Goethe University’s institute for law and finance in Frankfurt on Monday.

  • 24 Apr 2018

• DTCC warns derivatives industry on fragmented DLT

  

  Post-trade infrastructure giant the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC), has warned derivatives markets that attempts to implement distributed ledger technology should be coordinated, lest mistakes of the past are repeated.

  • 24 Apr 2018

• Swedish capital ratios to suffer from mortgage rule change

  

  Swedbank announced in its results on Tuesday that a proposal to change the regulatory treatment of Swedish mortgages would lower its common equity tier one (CET1) ratio. The rule change will also take Swedish banks’ additional tier one (AT1) bonds closer to their trigger levels.

  • 24 Apr 2018

• Talks heat up around new ways to fund EU banks in resolution

  

  The European Central Bank (ECB) could be drafted into providing liquidity to banks going through resolution, according to discussions at a conference in Frankfurt this week.

  • 24 Apr 2018

• MEP Ferber rejects no-action letter system

  

  Prominent German member of the European Parliament, Markus Ferber, has put down suggestions that European regulators should be granted powers to temporarily exempt market participants from regulations.

  • 23 Apr 2018

• Lloyds faces pref share scrutiny after FCA note

  

  The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority wrote to CEOs on Thursday, asking them to make sure the details of fixed income shares are understood by investors.

  • 19 Apr 2018

• Three firms launch initial margin repapering platform

  

  Allen & Overy, IHS Markit and Smart Communications subsidiary SmartDX on Thursday announced that they had launched a platform to speed up the repapering of derivatives contracts, in anticipation of new regulatory requirements.

  • 19 Apr 2018

• Investors scrape for solutions to Rusal conundrum

  

  Some EM fund managers and fixed income analysts are already in discussions over whether investors stuck holding Rusal bonds may be able, with the issuer’s help, to create a workaround that would allow the company to stay current on its debt obligations.

  • 16 Apr 2018

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