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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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In this round-up, US president Donald Trump threatened to raise tariffs again if a phase one deal is not reached, China is planning to set up a fund to promote its manufacturing industry and the US Senate passed the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act. -
Axa’s proposal this week that the European Union should create a €500bn joint borrowing vehicle for climate change could easily be dismissed as pie in the sky. So it is, for now.
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Green finance specialists gave a cautious welcome this week to an idea put forward by Axa that the European Union should set up a new organ, modelled on the European Stability Mechanism, to borrow about €500bn for investments to fight climate change. Jon Hay and Burhan Khadbai report.
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When the European Commission looks at tweaking MiFID II, those worried about market access for small and mid-sized companies would welcome a loosening of rules on research for those firms, at a time of challenges in investment banking and renewed focus on capital markets union.
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While the banking sector has pushed for capital requirements to be tweaked to favour green lending, European Central Bank vice president Luis de Guindos said on Thursday that equity funding might prove more appropriate than this for funding new climate technologies. On the same day, the head of supervision at the ECB said capital relief for green assets must be based on evidence.
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A slump in revenue growth during an economic downturn could trigger a change in investors’ risk appetite and a “widespread” sell-off of corporate bonds, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development warned on Thursday.
