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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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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.
