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Despite a tepid response in a 2024 consultation, there are signs EU authorities are laying the groundwork
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Generals, and financial regulators, are always fighting the last war. So it proved when the coronavirus slammed into international markets in mid-March. Many of the tools developed in the 2008 financial crisis were deployed to great effect by central banks. The corners of the financial markets that propagated weakness in 2008 passed the test of 2020. But new risks were thrown up, forcing a new round of improvisation. What lessons will be drawn from the Covid-19 crisis?
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Policymakers have responded with impressive speed and purpose to ensure that a global health crisis does not turn into a global financial crisis. But what happens now that their cards have been played, and is there a plan for what to do once the great lockdown is lifted?
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In this round-up, Beijing braces for a second wave of local infections from Covid-19, China's industrial production grows for a second straight month, and American Express secures a clearing licence onshore. -
The European Central Bank’s chief supervisor has spoken out this week against the complexity of the capital triggers that can lead to restrictions on payments of additional tier one (AT1) coupons. He expressed his fear that these arrangements could be having a negative impact on bank lending behaviour during the coronavirus pandemic.
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In this round-up, China’s central government pushes ahead with reform, both the consumer price index and the producer price index were weaker than expected in May, and aviation activity and car sales warm up.
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The UK cannot have unconditional, direct access to the EU’s financial markets when it fully leaves the bloc, according to a draft opinion set to be adopted on Friday by the European Parliament's committees for international trade and foreign affairs.
