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  • LSE Group is pushing ahead with a plan to launch a debt venue to rival Ireland's and Luxembourg’s professional markets, which have built commanding positions with relaxed disclosure rules and easy listing requirements. But the UK government is dragging its feet on tax reforms that are crucial to the project.
  • The European Stability and Risk Board (ESRB) has backed calls to introduce a mechanism that will allow regional authorities to rapidly suspend clearing obligations, highlighting that the measure should only be used in “crisis periods."
  • The European Covered Bond Council has restated its support for the concept of a high quality principle-based covered bond framework and warned against altering the preferential regulatory status of the asset class.
  • The European Banking Authority (EBA) has approved a partial waiver to the Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR) that allows German covered bond issuers to take exposures to a wider range of counterparties but with a lower minimum rating.
  • There’s little chance of a harmonised approach to the burgeoning asset class of ‘senior non-preferred’ by the end of the year — and more likely that member states to tweak the rules — as talks in the European Parliament and between member states stalled.
  • The European Parliament agreed on Tuesday to fast-track its work on how to bring in IFRS 9 accounting, following calls from the 28 European member states. European authorities aim to finish their work before January 2018, in order to avoid a ‘cliff effect’ on bank capital.