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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 renminbi became the fifth world payments currency in November 2014, according to new data just released by the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (Swift), overtaking the Canadian and Australian dollars. -
The revived attempt to pass a financial transaction tax in Europe could end up caught between a rock and a hard place — a relief for market participants who have seen the tax as yet another potential restriction on trading businesses grappling with a raft of other regulatory burdens.
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Special Briefing on China market access, Part IV: Shanghai's Free Trade Zone — China’s promised landThe Shanghai pilot free trade zone (FTZ) initiative provoked an unhealthy mix of early-days chest-thumping by Chinese authorities and dismayed booing on the part of disappointed foreign observers in 2014. In December emotions surrounding the FTZ were finally beginning to quieten down, but then came the announcement of not one, but three new FTZs.
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In this round-up, Société Générale opens Shanghai Free Trade Zone sub-branch, CSOP launches an RQFII government bond ETF, and China Construction Bank is likely to be next European RMB clearing bank.
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With China's central bank finally starting to use the phrase "RMB internationalisation" to describe its efforts to promote the currency, the process looks set to enter a new stage this year. In contrast to earlier measures, the government's latest initiatives are all about encouraging capital and investment to go out into the wider world. That means it's time for China's domestic players to take a bigger role.
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Jerome Powell, a member of the Federal Reserve’s board of governors, said US financial regulators were preparing a new rule on compensation at financial institutions, which could include more deferral, delayed vesting and “the possibility of more robust forfeiture”.
