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Little green men could be closer than they appear
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
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Marketplace lender Prosper miscalculated and materially overstated its annualised net returns to investors, according to the US Securities and Exchange Commission, which slapped the online lender with a $3m fine last month.
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Amid criticism of the effect of quantitative easing (QE) on asset prices, the Bank of England could buy themed government bonds instead of regular Gilts in the next downturn, according to Samuel Tombs, chief UK economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics. This would be designed to ensure that QE directly helped the economy. -
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is taking a second look into combination notes, a genre of resecuritized CLOs, nearly nine months after Moody’s was fined for allegedly misrepresenting risks contained in the blended debt products. Alex Saeedy reports.
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The European Commission is looking to clarify the rules around “precautionary recapitalisations”, having published a review of the implementation of the Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive (BRRD) in the European Union.
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The European Central Bank will start calculating and publishing the new European benchmark rate Ester on October 2, while Euribor will be reformed to comply with the Benchmark Regulation (BMR). Eonia, meanwhile, is set to be phased out by 2022.
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The Alternative Reference Rates Committee (ARRC) issued recommendations for Libor replacement at the end of April, indicating that it believes the market should effectively self-regulate when it comes to picking a new benchmark for floating rate debt contracts.
