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  • At least two European banks are pitching bespoke structures to insurers that allow them to invest in securitizations without incurring the punishing capital charges laid out by Solvency II, but other market participants warned against the instruments, and argued that banks should fulfil the spirit, not just the letter, of regulation.
  • Vanishing liquidity in the ABS market is pushing spreads on many asset classes to their widest levels in a year. But worse could follow. Market insiders fear regulators stand not only to destroy the very arena they hope can drive growth, and subsequently financial strength, back into the economy, but they could be ushering in the next crisis. Sam Kerr reports.
  • The chair of the supervisory board of the European Central Bank, Danièle Nouy, is absolutely correct in regretting that so much European financial regulation has been done in the form of directives.
  • After two years of promoting renminbi internationalisation at full speed, Chinese regulators have put on the brakes as they go to extraordinary lengths to stop the currency leaving the country. Could RMB internationalisation become RMB re-nationalisation in 2016?
  • Happy Year of the Monkey from GlobalRMB. In this round-up, the Singapore Exchange and the Moscow Exchange see sustained activity in RMB spot and derivatives contracts in January 2016, KraneShares plans a new RQFII China bond exchange traded fund (ETF), and the UK appoints a vice-president for the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.
  • The European Commission made the planned delay to the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive rules official on Wednesday, formally proposing an extra year before the rules need to come into force. The market had expected a delay, as regulators and market participants alike were set to miss the deadline to build and test technical systems.