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No sooner has the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect got up and running than attention is already turning to the Next Big Thing — the expansion of the scheme into new markets and new asset classes. The fervour is understandable, but premature. Market participants should get to grips with what they have first before lobbying for shiny new toys. -
Asset managers in Europe are herding banks into providing ever longer clearing commitments. The decision by banks such as the Royal Bank of Scotland and BNY Mellon to shut down their clearing operations before the European clearing mandate kicks in has spooked some derivatives trading firms, who now want assurances that they’re jumping into bed with a dealer who will stick around. But delays to the clearing mandate make it only more likely more banks will withdraw from clearing, writes Hazel Sheffield.
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Avox has created a series of web-based applications to give market participants faster access to Legal Entity Data including Legal Entity Identifiers themselves, legal names, addresses, industry classifications and corporate hierarchies for over 1.7m entities.
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The International Capital Market Association and the Pan-European Private Placement Working Group launched a best practice guide for European private placements on Wednesday, hoping to encourage common market standards and encourage small and medium-sized companies to issue.
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Market participants in Europe have started to put clauses which tie clearing members to providing services for a certain period of time in their clearing contracts, fearing that more banks will shut down their clearing offerings as regulatory delays put bank balance sheets under increased pressure.
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The Shenzhen expansion of the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect will be up and running this year, Hong Kong chief executive CY Leung told the press on February 9.
