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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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As hardline Brexiteer Boris Johnson takes power in the UK, the European Commission is set to claim that the equivalence test for financial firms is tougher when the country in question is heavily connected to the EU. -
As the market prepares for Libors to end their run as the world’s most prevalent reference rates, there is growing support for the benchmarks to be reprieved.
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International banks will finally be allowed to obtain a fully-fledged bond underwriting licence in China’s interbank bond market, giving a boost to their ambitions to expand in the mainland. But they will have to meet some very high standards before they can make progress. Rebecca Feng reports.
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The first 25 companies that started trading on the new Shanghai tech board on Monday skyrocketed, as Chinese investors welcomed the Nasdaq-style equity market with frenzied trading. As the excitement cooled on Tuesday, the bourse’s performance shows that regulators must not just focus on market reform, but also on market participants.
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In this round-up, China and the US talked on Thursday after unhelpful comments from US president Donald Trump, China’s state council released policies on using social credits to regulate the market and the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) published guidelines to help financial institutions exit from the market.
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Bondholders are still afraid to form alliances like those in the equity market to pressure issuers to improve their environmental, social and governance performance. They are paralysed by fear of market abuse and competition rules. But there is hope regulators will reassure them.
