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Markets are looking to the authorities to simplify blockchain issues, but they may not have the purest motives
The new European Secured Note market is keen to secure regulatory recognition for the new product but there are advantages to not having it
Investor appetite for CLO ETFs is increasing in Europe, as the asset class matures. But regulation and investor wariness may limit the eventual size of the market, writes Thomas Hopkins, meaning it will be some time before it can reach the scale of that in the US
Specialist mortgage lenders are optimistic that funding for asset-backed lending will improve in the long run, despite the difficult developing situation around the fall of specialist bridging lender Market Financial Solutions, writes Tom Hall
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The European Banking Authority (EBA) will release results of its 2019 stress test on Friday. Investors will be looking out for the results of NordLB and the Italian banks in particular. -
Uncertainty over the ultimate shape of the European Union’s simple transparent and standardised (STS) securitization framework may be hampering investor demand for top quality securitizations, according to bankers.
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The Council of the European Union agreed on a softer line for writing down non-performing loans on Wednesday, extending the timeline that European banks will be given to provision bad loans down to 0%. The Council’s proposals also add a third category of NPLs to the planned distinction between ‘secured’ and ‘unsecured’, giving separate treatment to loans secured on 'movable' collateral.
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The status of bonds used to meet banks’ minimum requirements for own funds and eligible liabilities (MREL) and issued under English law has become a hot topic in the face of Brexit uncertainty. But many in the market are sanguine about a solution being found and there are obstacles for investors seeking to speculate on the outcome.
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EU Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis on Tuesday moved to reassure derivatives markets that the Commission would enact measures to avoid market disruption to clearing in a hard Brexit scenario.
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On Tuesday, the European Central Bank’s Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) announced its areas of focus and concern for the banking sector in 2019. This year it has included climate-related factors as a driver of risk.
