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The ratings review finished with both upgrades and downgrades linked to senior bonds now being subordinated to regular deposits
Public pension schemes have sold shares in coal, oil and gas companies but are still funding expansion of the gas industry through infrastructure funds
Key points of contention include the investor sanctions regime and the definition of 'resilience'
European and other regulators are working on reforms to make covered bond funding more efficient
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The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) is centralising trade data submissions from trade repositories and trading venues via European national competent authorities, facilitating data harmonisation, transparency and access.
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In this pre-Easter round-up: RMB deposits and cross-border RMB trade settlement both take a hit in February, the Shanghai International Energy Exchange is set to allow foreign participants to trade RMB futures, and Bank of China is looking at Austria for new branches and RMB business in Europe. -
Demand for principle-at-risk products has created a growth opportunity in structured products, but the industry needs education to evolve, according to panellists at the SPA-2015 Structured Investments conference in New York.
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A central counterparty stress test framework proposed by LCH.Clearnet assesses risk impacts in several adaptive scenarios under the cover 2 requirement and a default auctioning protocol.
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Efforts by China’s top regulators to promote the inclusion of the renminbi into the International Monetary Fund's Special Drawing Rights (SDR) basket may have paid off. Analysts at Bank of America Merrill Lynch think the move is likely to happen and estimate the RMB's potential weighting to be 13%.
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Progress on global derivatives reform is at a critical juncture. The goal of enhanced transparency, identified by the G20 following the 2008 crisis as crucial to the supervision of the financial system, remains only partly addressed because of a number of practical and legal barriers that limit data sharing across jurisdictions. As a result, the cross-border identification of systemic risk remains challenging for macroprudential authorities.
