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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
Proposed 10% limit on interest would strip out most of securitizations' excess spread
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In this round up, US president Donald Trump hinted at a potential delay of the March 1 deadline for a trade deal with China, the National Development and Reform Commission required its local units to zoom in on the potential for bond defaults and Bank of China (BOC) said it will lend Rmb300b to the Tianjin government. -
Chinese regulators published a draft of new rules for corporate Panda bond issuers at the start of February. Bankers say the rules have done little to address one of the biggest headaches for potential issuers, but they do represent a step forward.
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The European Council on Tuesday confirmed its position on the review of the European system of financial supervision. It maintained that supervisors should not be funded by private firms, but agreed to give the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) more power. But there is now a rush to find an agreement with the European Parliament before its members go on leave for May’s elections.
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The European Central Bank (ECB) is looking to set up its own platform in collaboration with the Sociedad de Gestión de Activos procedentes de la Reestructuración Bancaria (Sarreb) in order to shift European non-performing loans (NPLs).
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Olaf Scholz, finance minister and vice-chancellor for Germany, said that there was 'no debate' about the creation of a bad bank in a prospective merger between Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank. He also does not believe that the recapitalisation of NordLB by the association of German savings banks would contravene EU state aid rules.
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Significant risk transfer (SRT) issuers are concerned that they may have to wait until as late as 2021 for their deals to become eligible for the European ‘simple, transparent and standardised’ (STS) securitization designation, following comments at the Association for Financial Markets in Europe's Spanish Funding Conference in Madrid on Thursday.
