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The European Central Bank is giving banks more time to provision for recently classified non-performing exposures, bringing its expectations into line with the EU’s new Capital Requirements Regulation. -
China’s central bank has shaken up the way banks quote lending rates, reforming an interest rate benchmark to more closely track the market. But onshore bankers expressed doubts about the move. Rebecca Feng reports.
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The Volcker rule is set to be tweaked, simplified and watered down, changing the section of the US’s Dodd-Frank regulations stopping banks from engaging in proprietary trading. Only banks with more than $20bn of trading assets and liabilities will face the fullest compliance programme, while rules over what is identified as prop trading have been weakened.
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The European Central Bank has given Banca Carige the all-clear to try and carry out its latest plans to turn itself around. The ailing Italian lender said on Monday that its next step will be to ask its shareholders for their approval at a meeting next month.
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The People’s Bank of China (PBoC) unveiled a new benchmark rate for bank loans on Saturday. The loan prime rate (LPR) will replace the current one-year lending rate, which has stood still for four years at 4.35%, as the new benchmark. The move is aimed at making the lending rates more market-based and lowering the funding cost for the real economy, analysts say.
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The European Central Bank said on Thursday that AS PNB Banka was "failing or likely to fail", marking the second time in as many years that a Latvian bank has been declared insolvent.
