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European and other regulators are working on reforms to make covered bond funding more efficient
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The People's Bank of China (PBoC) and the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) on November 17 signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establish official renminbi clearing arrangements in Australia. The country was also awarded a Rmb50bn ($8.1bn) quota for the Renminbi Qualified Foreign Institutional Investors (RQFII) scheme and a clearing bank is on the cards soon. -
Its recent return to the offshore renminbi bond market and its new status as Canada's hub for RMB trade settlement have seen the Province of British Columbia (BC) reinforce its commitment to China and its support for the RMB as a global currency, Michael de Jong, BC’s Minister of Finance, has told GlobalRMB during a visit to Hong Kong.
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Agency trading is an important tool for avoiding basis risk in package trades, especially for the more complex structures that are yet to be made available to trade on swap execution facilities (SEFs), according to speakers at the Sefcon V conference in New York.
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Market participants at the International Capital Markets Association’s primary markets forum on Wednesday questioned the value of technological developments in the syndication process that could remove human contact from the process. But regulatory and cost pressures will make technology all the more important, and arguably the last decade of bond market growth could not have happened with using technology to accelerate the new issue process.
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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission needs to grant permanent registration for swap execution facilities in order to avoid hindering the evolution of businesses following the implementation of Dodd-Frank. Additionally, the slew of continuing no-action letters is resulting in regulatory uncertainty, according to speakers at SEFCON V.
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Reporting of over-the-counter and exchange traded derivatives to repositories is floundering in its aim to make trading more transparent, some seven months since reporting started in Europe. Market participants say a broken system consisting of multiple trade repositories could harbour risk, rather than reduce it.
