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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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The FICC Market Standards Board has just released guidance on the proper conduct of government bond auctions, cautioning banks — and primary dealers especially — to manage their conflicts of interest carefully. That’s fine as far as it goes, but the whole point of the primary dealer system is to rig the market, with finely tuned incentives on all sides to make sure governments have access to funding whatever the weather.
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Christopher Giancarlo, former chairman of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), will return to the private sector in his first job since leaving the regulator. -
The China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission (CBIRC) published the first set of capital requirements for banks’ wealth management subsidiaries on Monday, with the rules set to go into effect on March 1 next year.
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In this round-up, US president Donald Trump signed the Hong Kong Human Rights Act into law despite trade tension with China, the Ministry of Finance allocated Rmb1tr ($142.2bn) of special project bond quotas to local governments and the Chinese State Council has set its sights on financing infrastructure projects.
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A research project to be conducted by Freshfields over the next 10 months will attempt to clarify the hazy area of whether it is legal for investors to prioritise the impact of their investments on the real world, including where this might impair returns.
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Economists at the European Central Bank said that stock markets were better than banks at reallocating investment towards greener sectors because of the greater role that equity plays in financing energy efficient sectors.
