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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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The creditworthiness of corporate borrowers in advanced economies has deteriorated while the volume of debt and financial risk taking has risen, the International Monetary Fund has warned. It also flagged up concerns about the sovereign-bank nexus in the eurozone and about market conditions for low income and frontier countries. -
UniCredit said on Wednesday that it is one of the banks suspected of violating European Union competition rules in the purchase and trading of European government bonds between 2007 and 2012.
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This week the US Federal Reserve side-stepped the question of whether it should apply new liquidity and capital rules to the US branches of foreign banks, publishing proposals that instead focused on tailoring requirements for their intermediate holding companies (IHCs).
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A senior European Commission official has defended the EU's record on regulation since the financial crisis, amid complaints that global derivatives markets have become fragmented.
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The European Parliament decided this week to cancel a vote on the draft text for a directive that would boost the secondary market for non-performing loans. Final negotiations with member states are now unlikely to start before September.
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A study presented to the European Commission on competition in European loan syndication found no evidence of collusion and no need for further investigations. Indeed, for most bankers, the balance of power seems so tilted to borrowers that it has helped erode deal documents and yields in recent years.
