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PRA and FCA go much further than EU in loosening rules
Liberated issuers will still have to follow European regulations if they want to sell in EU
Public versus private distinction scrapped for disclosure plus new, simplified templates for mature asset classes
Established, well-known corporates could be among the first to use new regime
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A proposed change to the Pfandbrief Act will allow German covered bond issuers to keep UK assets in their cover pools, without falling foul of Pfandbrief eligibility criteria. -
Santander did well to attract an oversubscribed order book for its €1bn 10 year Cédulas on Thursday — even as Spanish bank debt and equity was sold off after the country's supreme court ruled that banks are liable for mortgage documentation taxes.
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This week the Netherlands took a major step towards becoming the latest European country to introduce a law enabling banks to issue senior non-preferred debt. And earlier this month the UK government closed a consultation for its own law to introduce the instrument.
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The US Financial Stability Oversight Council no longer has any systemically important financial institutions on its list, after voting to rescind the label for Prudential Financial this week.
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US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) chairman Christopher Giancarlo has threatened to retaliate over European Commission legislation that Giancarlo thinks would result in “conflicting” and “overly burdensome” regulation from abroad.
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The Bank of England has noted progress in the development of the sterling overnight index average rate (Sonia) as an approved alternative reference rate, while also flagging the continued production of long-dated contracts tied to Libor.
