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  • The UK’s financial watchdog has warned banks that terminating client relationships deemed ‘risky’ may have some unexpectedly litigious consequences.
  • Sales teams could be stopped from giving market colour, or recommending bonds based on value if Europe’s Market Abuse Regulation hits the statute book as planned — and there’s only a month left to change it.
  • Communication between foreign exchange market participants remains essential, the Bank for International Settlements said on Thursday, as it published a global code of conduct aimed at restoring confidence that the market can be “robust, fair, open, liquid and appropriately transparent”, despite recent scandals.
  • The RMB lost ground against other global currencies in April 2016, dropping from the fifth to the sixth most used payment currency, according to the latest Swift data. Meanwhile, Swift has seen usage of its platform for RMB securities settlement surge as the Chinese bond market opens to foreign investors.
  • US banks face tighter but potentially confusing restrictions on booking swaps business overseas, say lawyers, after the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) adopted a rule that applies multi-faceted criteria to applying cross-border margining requirements on uncleared swaps.
  • The China bond market still trails those in developed economies in the ease of the access for foreign investors and the breadth of investment products available, according to panellists at a Hong Kong Exchange conference on May 24.