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  • There’s plenty of arguing about Brexit, but in finance, euro clearing stands out as a particularly bitter regulatory fight. At issue is London’s place as the host of euro trading — and it’s going to go down to the wire.
  • The Czech Republic has proposed several legal amendments that will bring its existing covered bond regime into line with the European Banking Authority’s best practice guidelines and which, along with similar moves in Slovakia, will help catalyse new covered bond supply from the region.
  • Cryptocurrencies are making inroads into traditional capital markets territory, and there is certainly money to be made, but, as Tuesday’s hard fork in Bitcoin shows, the market has a long way to go before it is sufficiently stable to be anything more than a curiosity.
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    Sabine Lautenschläger, vice-chair of the supervisory board of the European Central Bank (ECB), has said that deregulating the financial system would be a "big mistake".
  • Gates Global delisted its 5.75% 2022 bonds from the Luxembourg Stock Exchange this month, and relisted them immediately on the former Channel Islands Stock Exchange, now rebranded The International Stock Exchange (TISE). The move was likely a response to Europe’s Market Abuse Regulation, which has driven some high yield issuers to the non-EU exchange.
  • The European Commission is consulting until October on ways to deal with Europe’s non-performing loan problem, and has outlined plans for a new contractual instrument, called the ‘accelerated loan security’, to protect secured creditors from default — without enforcing security through the courts.