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Artificial intelligence’s capabilities could speed up some of the work involved in securitization, but its implementation poses risks. Building governance frameworks is key to deploying the technology safely, writes George Smith
Specialist mortgage lenders are optimistic that funding for asset-backed lending will improve in the long run, despite the difficult developing situation around the fall of specialist bridging lender Market Financial Solutions, writes Tom Hall
Investor appetite for CLO ETFs is increasing in Europe, as the asset class matures. But regulation and investor wariness may limit the eventual size of the market, writes Thomas Hopkins, meaning it will be some time before it can reach the scale of that in the US
The possible further internationalisation of the covered bond market will present challenges as well as opportunities
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Barclays posted another strong set of returns from the corporate and investment bank (CIB) on Thursday, but the disclosure that UK regulators are investigating chief executive Jes Staley’s relationship with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was described as a “red flag”.
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Negotiations may involve a degree of posturing, but as demonstrated with the plan to demand “permanent equivalence” with the EU over financial regulation, it is not clear what future the UK government wants for one of its most important industries.
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US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) commissioner Rostin Behnam has added his voice to the growing clamour for derivatives market participants to find a solution to fallback issues as they transition away from Libor.
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Turkey’s Bank Regulation and Supervision Agency is mulling an overhaul to its rules on risk transfer for banks, which could open a new jurisdiction for the synthetic securitization market, and raise marginal capital for the country’s banks.
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Sam Woods, deputy governor at the Bank of England and chief executive of the Prudential Regulatory Authority, this week said he expects an equivalence agreement between the European Union and the UK to be extended beyond September, as both sides want to avoid a “dramatic” fallout.
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Sustainable finance players are enthusiastic about regulation, which they expect to bring clarity and order to the market. It may — though when the new EU rules are implemented they are likely to irk participants more than they expect. But what would be really effective are direct actions that bypass finance.