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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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Banks operating with large swaps trading operations will no longer be required to relocate their trading to a separate legal entity that is not federally insured following the rollback of Section 716 of the Dodd-Frank Act. As a result, banks will avoid incurring significant expenses, while saving time and personnel, according to lawyers. -
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, one of the top financial regulators in the US, said last week that risk within US leveraged lending had slipped to levels last seen in 2006, in the lead-up to the financial crisis.
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The implementation of a stay on the contract termination rights of derivative counterparties by global regulators could change the face of derivatives trading, forcing counterparties to look at amending their agreements away from the prevalent two-way payment system, according to lawyers.
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Société Générale’s Newedge prime services business has added LCH.Clearnet’s ForexClear as a new central counterparty clearing houses to its client over-the-counter clearing offering, allowing it clients to clear non-deliverable forwards.
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Russian authorities are mulling forcing international rating agencies to continue rating all Russian entities, including borrowers subject to US and EU sanctions.
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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has permanently approved LCH.Clearnet as a derivatives clearing organisation under the Commodities Exchange Act, after reviewing and amending the clearing houses’s original authorisation.
