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Scrutiny of regulatory proposals by those without securitization expertise is a feature, not a bug
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
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Some EU member states are nearing a compromise on a common financial transactions tax, something that has been discussed for almost a decade in the bloc, but has failed to materialise up to now. -
Business debt has reached near record levels that should give businesses and investors reason to “pause and reflect”, warned Jerome Powell, chair of the US Federal Reserve, this week.
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Asset managers’ steady growth over the last 10 years is attracting the attention of regulators, who reckon they are of increasingly systemic importance to the financial system. But investment firms have pushed back, arguing that their activity is already well regulated and does not present the same risks as banks.
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Spain has a limited amount of time to bring its Cédulas framework into line with the EU's Covered Bond Directive. A legal update is probably going to be less disruptive than a completely new law — but neither option is perfect.
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The People’s Bank of China (PBoC) launched a pilot programme on Monday to set up ETFs that can include bonds in the interbank market as well as bonds traded on stock exchanges, as part of an effort to connect the two markets.
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The treasury head for one of Europe’s largest capital markets borrowers, Germany’s KfW, said last week that primary markets syndicates ‘know less about the markets than 10 years ago’, leading to bankers being more conservative about where to price bond issues than in the past.
