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PRA and FCA go much further than EU in loosening rules
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Efforts were renewed this week to rein in the power of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, with a Republican congressman taking aim at the agency’s mortgage underwriting rules. -
Barclays said on Monday that its chief executive Jes Staley was under investigation by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), for his attempt to identify the author of a whistleblowing letter. The whistleblower raised questions about a senior employee recruited in the first half of 2016, who had worked with Staley at a previous employer.
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A German MEP reignited the explosive topic of London-based euro clearing on Tuesday, proclaiming that “EU citizens decide on their own money.” A move to force euro clearing to take place inside the eurozone could raise the cost of derivatives collateral and damage risk management, lawyers warned, as well as denting the City's position as a financial centre. Costas Mourselas and Jean Comte reports.
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The EU’s finance ministers will hold a debate on Friday about non-performing loans (NPLs), during an informal Economic and Financial Affairs Council (Ecofin) meeting in Malta. The debate aims to start work on a European strategy for bringing down NPLs, though some argue this should be tackled at national level.
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The Basel Committee said on Wednesday that it had not figured out how the regulatory capital regime could deal with the IFRS 9 accounting rules set to come in next year and backed a transitional period, as few banks are ready for the ‘capital shock’ that could result.
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The European Commission delivered the final blow to a proposed merger between Europe's biggest stock exchange operators, Deutsche Börse and the London Stock Exchange, on Wednesday, but some market observers wondered whether the parties themselves had gone cold on the deal.
