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  • Market participants remain split on the likely effectiveness of the European Commission’s simple, transparent and standardised (STS) securitization proposals, with the potential for fragmented interpretation still seen as a key potential stumbling block for the plan.
  • Financial market regulators finally have something to cheer about, after a host of recent setbacks, as Europe and the US this week took a big step towards aligning their treatment of central counterparties (CCPs). But the move could also heighten competition for clearing banks in Europe.
  • Europe and the US have taken a big step towards cohesion on their treatment of central clearing counterparties (CCPs), with the European Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission unveiling a common approach towards equivalence between the two CCP regimes.
  • The European Central Bank will publish its leveraged lending guidelines in the next three to six months, firming up the informal guidance it sends to banks directly.
  • In this round-up, Charles Li promises Bond Connect and RMB derivatives, ICBC sees cross-border business booming, Moscow Exchange looks to connect with Chinese investors, offshore RMB (CNH) still a top three currency on the EBS FX trading platform, and China clarifies rules for foreign banks looking to join the onshore FX market. Plus, a recap of the top GlobalRMB stories this week.
  • The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has backed away from rules which could have crippled the repo market, through bypassing high level laws that were fundamentally ill-conceived. But the initiative, supposed to improve settlement discipline, will still hurt liquidity in the bond market.