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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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Healthy financial systems should not rely on short sellers and journalists to expose accounting scandals at large, publicly listed companies. Regulators and auditors should have been the heroes of the Wirecard story but their inability to see what others saw plainly paints them as the villains in this edition of German corporate noir. -
European Union institutions failed on Friday to reach a deal on a clearing resolution scheme, due to disagreements on whether the second skin in the game should be prefunded or not. The EU Commission is now suggesting a middle way that will be debated on Tuesday evening.
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Nikhil Rathi will be the new chief executive of the Financial Conduct Authority. He is currently CEO of the London Stock Exchange.
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The US Federal Reserve will publish the results of its latest bank stress tests this week, after updating the exercise to include three new scenarios related to Covid-19. The new scenarios could have a bearing on dividend policy, but capital requirements will still be based on the pre-pandemic stress test model.
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In this round-up, the Chinese capital of Beijing conducts nucleic acid tests for Covid-19 on 2.3m local residents, the central bank leaves the benchmark lending rate unchanged for June, and a subsidiary of AIA is set to become China’s first wholly foreign owned life insurance company.
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The European Commission proposal for a debt-financed coronavirus recovery fund goes before the European Council on Friday. The Council is unlikely to reach a decision on the fund this week, but analysts hope a verdict will emerge before July.
