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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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Two international banks announced this week that they had helped clients complete two way RMB sweeping transactions outside the Shanghai pilot free trade zone (FTZ). Chinese regulators expanded the pilot scheme to the entire country in November 2014. -
The way that firms report trade and transaction data under the European Market Infrastructure Regulation and the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive could converge before the implementation of MiFID II in January 2017.
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The renminbi has grown as an international trade, investment and reserve currency at breakneck speed over the past few years. But in many eyes, the very programmes set up to loosen capital account restrictions are now working against very purpose of creating offshore RMB liquidity – key to the currency’s internationalisation. A couple of developments this year may help.
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Derivatives end users in the US and Asia are likely to face the biggest hurdles complying with the clearing mandate under the European Market Infrastructure Regulation when it kicks in towards the end of this year, according to lawyers.
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2014 continued to be an active year for financial regulation in the EU, with a push to finalise much of the outstanding primary legislation on the regulatory reform agenda and to move towards implementation of regulation already in place. The derivatives market will be particularly affected by the new regulatory landscape and the market will face many new challenges in 2015 and beyond.
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Under MiFID II, forward contracts as currently defined will be considered financial instruments, which is raising significant concerns for commodity derivatives market participants as they will be subject to regulation that they weren’t previously.
