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Tom Hall goes through a sterling week of deals for European ABS, while Thomas Hopkins dissects the dangers that a rise in LMEs would pose for European CLOs
Proposed 10% limit on interest would strip out most of securitizations' excess spread
Implementation necessary after wide-ranging changes last year
It is not enough to just undo some of the European Commission’s more controversial proposals
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The UK government showed this week that it plans to differ from the EU in its approach to banking regulation after Brexit. Divergence will begin with the minimum requirements for own funds and eligible liabilities (MREL), but a new consultation opens the way for further changes. -
The European Parliament reached a quicker than expected agreement on central counterparty clearing house recovery and resolution on Tuesday night, settling on a framework for second skin in the game requirements and also pushing open-access rules out for another year.
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The Basel Committee has proposed tweaks to its securitization rules to ease non-performing loan sales — but it hasn’t gone as far as market participants would like, and has rowed back from proposals tabled by the European Banking Authority last October, which would have cut capital requirements much further.
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The UK government and regulators are looking at ditching some of the specifics of EU financial regulation — encompassing banks, insurers and capital markets — as the country looks ahead to its post-Brexit future.
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The European Central Bank is now expected to find a means of meeting the request from Germany's Federal Constitutional Court (BVG) for proportionality assessments without curtailing its ability to expand its quantitative easing programmes.
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The UK may be loosening social restrictions as the rate of coronavirus infections abates, but the Bank of England and the government cannot let up the fight against the economic and market impact of the virus.
