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  • Belgium’s economic ministry pit itself against one of the main goals of Capital Markets Union — and possibly the fundamental EU law of free movement of capital — when it ruled recently that international securitizations may not purchase Belgian consumer credit receivables.
  • The Basel Committee has made an adjustment to the way it wants leverage ratios to be calculated, in a change that will lessen the capital burden on many banks that deal in derivatives.
  • The broad liberalisation of access to the China interbank bond market (CIBM) announced in February has been given the thumbs up, but hedge funds keen to have a more direct route into the Chinese market face a complex landscape, with the country’s regulators still treating the industry with suspicion.
  • The European Securities Markets Authority (ESMA) has said it doesn’t see a need to exclude for 30 months exchange traded derivatives from access to central counterparties (CCPs) and trading venues under the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II, finding that their immediate inclusion doesn’t threaten financial stability.
  • China’s monetary policy choices and economic reforms are increasingly front and centre for global decision makers, according to panellists speaking at the Credit Suisse Asian Investment Conference (AIC), which opened in Hong Kong on April 5.
  • The Financial Policy Committee noted that while UK bank capital has grown, the resilience of the system is threatened by banks’ impaired ability to generate internal capital in a low profit environment, minutes from the committee’s latest meeting show.