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Public versus private distinction scrapped for disclosure plus new, simplified templates for mature asset classes
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Exchange leaders have criticised some of the measures that regulators introduced during the height of the Covid-19 crisis that restricted short selling.
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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.
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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.