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Five trade bodies have drawn up a single template for Securities Financing Transactions Regulation and European Market Infrastructure Regulation. -
The European Commission is talking with Italy about its proposed rescue of the troubled lender Banca Popolare di Bari, after the country passed a decree law this week spelling out plans for state intervention.
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In this round-up, Chinese president Xi Jinping headed to Macau for the 20th anniversary of the handover, the National People’s Congress will hold a fourth reading of the Securities Law next week and the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) has lowered the 14-day reverse repo rate.
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The Financial Stability Board warned on Thursday of growing vulnerabilities in the leveraged loan and CLO markets. Increased leverage, weak covenants and the rise of non-bank lenders have added risk and complexity to the market, according to the global watchdog of the financial system, and the investors don’t have enough visibility on the debt instruments they’re buying.
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European Union member states are finding more and more ways to prop up failing financial institutions with public money. The longer it goes on, the harder it is going to become for authorities to crack down on a culture of bailouts.
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Italy and the EU provoked indignation this week, when Italy approved the use of public money to rescue Banca Popolare di Bari, a small regional lender faltering under the weight of bad loans. The decision looks likely to join a long list of cases when European Union rules designed to prevent government bank bail-outs have proved toothless, prompting market participants to think the EU has capitulated.
