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Liberated issuers will still have to follow European regulations if they want to sell in EU
Public versus private distinction scrapped for disclosure plus new, simplified templates for mature asset classes
Established, well-known corporates could be among the first to use new regime
An accurate picture of liquidity could help London compete for listings
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  • The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) was set to back a significant revision of its cross-border mandate on Thursday, pulling back from overseeing non-US swap transactions.
  • The European Commission is looking to change its rules on research unbundling and other aspects of MiFID II to ease the post-coronavirus recovery in the EU. It is also set to present tweaks to rules on securitization and prospectuses.
  • Commodity derivatives trades are primed for a fillip from European regulators as the European Commission plans to relax position limits on their trading.
  • In a world first this week, 23-year-old student and Australian retail government bond investor Katta O’Donnell filed a legal challenge against the sovereign on Wednesday, claiming that the government does not do enough to disclose the risks of climate change to investors. If successful, the case could change issuers’ obligations regarding climate risk disclosure.
  • Reform of the US government sponsored enterprises (GSEs) has always been considered a necessary precursor to establishing a US covered bond legal framework. But with the Covid-19 crisis and November’s presidential elections diverting attention, dollar covered bond issuance will remain dominated by foreign banks, with near term supply prospects likely to be determined by the cross-currency basis swap.
  • Reports that the European Central Bank (ECB) could ask banks to suspend dividend payments until the end of 2020 sent subordinated debt higher and stocks lower this week.