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  • Despite quantitative easing measures contributing to persistent shrinking in the size of the European RMBS market, panellists at Global ABS on Wednesday were optimistic that the tapering of central bank funding schemes would see a resurgence of supply, as new non-bank lenders grow market share and banks look to refinance retained deals.
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    Sources close to the Maltese presidency of the European Council have downplayed the importance of the regular reviews of risk retention rules, agreed under the new rules for 'simple, transparent and standardised' securitizations last week.
  • ABS
    Regulatory technical standards (RTS) related to the simple, transparent, standardised (STS) European securitization framework could take as long as 12 months to finalise, which would leave almost no time between RTS finalisation and STS implementation.
  • The European securitization industry’s “simple, transparent and standardised” regulatory framework has finally been pushed through, with industry practitioners as well as supportive bureaucrats in Brussels saying it will help boost the flow of lending to Europe’s small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Time will tell if those businesses actually feel the benefit.
  • The next steps in the war to restore European securitization will be risk weights, Solvency II, and the end of excess central bank liquidity, according to market participants who cheered last Tuesday’s agreement on the structure of a ‘simple, transparent and standardised’ (STS) label for European securitizations.
  • The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) on Wednesday clarified that position limits under MiFID II will not apply to commodity derivatives traded on third-country trading venues, should certain criteria be met.