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  • The European Union has hit a big setback in its drive to overhaul financial market rules, with its chief markets regulator demanding a delay of as much as a year before implementing its flagship regulation, Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II). But market participants greeted the reprieve as a welcome and necessary delay.
  • Basel Committee proposals made on Tuesday for the capital treatment of high quality securitizations are set to prolong the regulatory morass that has dogged the ABS market since the financial crisis. Many market participants are wondering when the uncertainty surrounding the market will end, writes David Bell.
  • The Romanian mortgage market is set for growth after local authorities amended its previously unusable covered bond law to bring it into line with the best standards in western Europe.
  • The UK plans to change its rules on bonuses, allowances, and banker pay to reflect the European Banking Authority’s hostility to “allowances” — seen as a tool to circumvent restrictions on the ratio of fixed pay to bonuses.
  • The European Central Bank is working to close 122 loopholes available to national regulators that could allow regulatory arbitrage by banks between the 19 countries in the eurozone.
  • The new qualified domestic institutional investor (QDII2) scheme may be the missing link that allows global money managers to really tap into China's potential for outward investment. A necessary condition to that strategy, however, is a corporate structure that until recently was barred to asset managers — the wholly foreign-owned enterprise (WFOE).