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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 Bank of England said that the proportion of new highly leveraged loans would swell from 18% of the market to 28%, once add-backs and subsequent borrowing were included, taking overall leverage levels in the market above those prevailing in 2007.
  • The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority has opened a large number of whistleblowing cases related to behaviour and culture at investment banks, according to data obtained by GlobalCapital. This corresponds to a broader push by the regulator to look beyond traditional misconduct issues.
  • The chairman of the US Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, has insisted he will stand firm against any attempts by president Donald Trump to sack him as head of the central bank. Powell also warned that Facebook’s Libra currency plans raise concerns about financial stability.
  • Interest rate swaps (IRS) trading platform trueEx has announced plans to close its doors after coming under pressure from an alleged bank boycott.
  • The Netherlands is about to pass an act inspired by US bankruptcy rules or English schemes of arrangement, updating an insolvency code that has proved ineffective for dealing with companies with secured debt — and has seen companies like Nyrstar redomicile to the UK as part of their restructurings.
  • Greencoat Investment, a vehicle associated with Rizwan Hussain's attempts to take control of a pre-crisis CMBS, was dealt a blow this week when a court rejected its application to put the deal into administration. The move, for now, puts paid to efforts to persuade bondholders to tender their holdings.