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Veolia Environnement priced its debut Panda bond on September 1, becoming the first French issuer to tap the onshore Chinese market. The firm was also one of the first corporates to be allowed to repatriate funds out of China despite ongoing capital controls, its treasurer told GlobalRMB. -
Derivatives market participants must embrace new technologies to meet the challenges it faces in seeking greater standardisation and efficiency, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association has said. These include opportunities for use of blockchain, ‘RegTech’, product identifiers and ‘common domain models’.
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Basel proposals on how to treat mortgages will hurt Europe’s banks less than feared, according to sources with knowledge of the Basel Committee’s discussions, and other industry insiders at the European Covered Bond Council’s plenary meeting in Düsseldorf this week.
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The European Union’s ‘State of the Union’ announcements on Wednesday promised more progress on Capital Markets Union, a project blown off course by the resignation of the commissioner in charge of the project, the UK’s Jonathan Hill, following the Brexit vote. Several of the early initiatives in the project are now bogged down in the European Parliament.
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The Autorité des Marchés Financiers, the French securities regulator, has set out its approach to new rules on research, introduced as part of the MiFID II package, which could see the volume of sellside research slashed. The French proposals could set the tone for the rest of Europe’s regulators, ahead of implementation of the rules at the beginning of 2018 — but it still leave questions hanging over fixed income.
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Goldman Sachs has signed up many of its major dealer counterparties to new CSA documents for non-centrally cleared OTC derivatives in the last couple of weeks, using a Euroclear service to manage the collateral transfers. BAML, Barclays, Credit Suisse, HSBC, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley and RBS are some of the firms that signed the new agreements with Goldman between September 2 and September 6.
