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The market is getting ready for the wider adoption of offshore RMB bonds as collateral in securities transactions, solving a longstanding liquidity issue, according to Euroclear. Meanwhile, on the onshore China front, a Bond Connect initiative is likely and will open up a new world for foreign investors, the organisation says. -
The European Commission has proposed a further two year exemption for pension funds from central clearing requirements for their over-the-counter derivatives transactions.
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Issuers are behind the rest of the market in obtaining the legal entity identifiers (LEIs) required by the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive to comply with transaction reporting, according to Mark Davies, general manager of Avox, who said that many issuers are not even aware that they must obtain an LEI.
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Capital Markets Union merits the three capital letters. It is a grandiose project planned by a Commission which is fresh to the task, full of energy, and dealing with a European leadership more aware than before of the need to cooperate in economics and finance. It is also the perfect cover for a project to fix the past five years of poor regulation in Europe.
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The UK Structured Products Association has introduced a new set of risk ratings to enable financial advisers to compare different structured products more easily and help select products that match their clients’ risk profiles more closely. Up until now, there has been no numeric risk value assigned to structured products.
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Standard Chartered has wrapped up the first cross-border loan from a foreign bank to a client based in the Tianjin Eco-City (TEC). Although small, the Rmb50m ($8m) financing for Tianjin Eco-City Keppel New Energy Development (TEC-Keppel) is nonetheless a landmark, originating from StanChart's Singapore branch.
