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  • The week begins with the long-awaited launch of the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Stock Connect, while in the foreign exchange (FX) markets the RMB volatility led to a new record in RMB futures traded on the Singapore Exchange in November.
  • European Central Bank director general of market operations Ulrich Bindseil, said the central bank’s decision to raise repo haircuts for covered bonds with extendable maturities was purely for risk management purposes and should not be interpreted as a judgemental view of the structures.
  • In this round, up, cross-border RMB trade settlement falls further in Hong Kong, the RMB qualified foreign institutional investor (RQFII) scheme adds the first Thai asset manager, and the Hong Kong Exchange confirms the final list of stocks available through Shenzhen Connect from December 5. Plus, a recap of our weekly coverage.
  • The European Commission proposed two delegated acts on Wednesday, finalising the regulatory framework of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, set to enter in force in January 2018.
  • Clearing houses, lawyers and derivatives specialists have spent this week poring over Europe’s proposed rules for central counterparty recovery and resolution, with question marks still hanging over how each case will be assessed and how banks should capitalise their exposures.
  • Credit Suisse’s catastrophe bond protecting the bank from its own operational risk losses cut more than Sfr1bn from risk-weighted assets in the bank’s Global Markets unit, following an improvement in regulatory treatment. But the Basel Committee looks set to close off this route to cutting capital costs.