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  • The immediate irony of the securitization industry’s efforts to create a “simple, transparent and standardised” framework to boost the market is that once Europe’s politicians got hold of it, it became a complicated, opaque and idiosyncratic way of holding it back.
  • EU institutions agreed on Thursday to simplify the rules on prospectuses, increasing the size of capital raising which can be done without having to meet the full regulatory requirements, and easing the burden for frequent issuers.
  • The European securitization industry’s attempt to soften the regulatory treatment of “simple, transparent and standardised” (STS) asset-backed securities was dealt a significant setback by a hawkish European Parliament on Thursday.
  • More than half of a global group of 276 investors surveyed by HSBC have a strategy for reducing the environmental impact of their activities — but 74% of them encounter barriers to increasing their low carbon financing, mainly a lack of credible investment opportunities.
  • The Luxembourg financial regulator has decided to allow Ucits funds registered in the country to enter the China interbank bond market direct access (CIBM Direct) scheme. The move is set to give yet another boost to China bond investments.
  • The first official list shows that investors have been keen to gain access to the China interbank bond market (CIBM). This is only the start with banks reporting strong demand from asset managers, while regulators are working hard to facilitate further inflows.