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Commercial banks are in the driving seat for the highly levered financing of Cinven and Astorg’s purchase of testing business LGC Group. Regulatory issues are said to have kept some US banks away from the deal, but others question whether a large revolver commitment had more of an impact. -
The syndicated loan market’s shift from Libor to risk-free rates has come under further scrutiny. Law firm Dentons released a report on Wednesday that highlights significant parts of the changeover that remain unresolved.
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European banks are waiting for relief from central bankers, politicians and regulators. But UniCredit is positioning itself to offset several of the biggest problems facing the sector, giving it greater room to forge its own destiny.
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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.
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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.
