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The UK chancellor of the exchequer, George Osborne's Autumn Statement, announced a major boost for alternative finance through peer-to-peer (P2P) markets. Retail investors could soon use the tax exempt individual savings allowance wrapper to put money into P2P, unlocking a pool of capital worth more than £400bn for the sector.
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The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation has partnered with TriOptima, enabling daily reconciliation of over-the-counter derivatives trades that are reported to DTCC’s European trade repository via triResolve, as mandated by the European Market Infrastructure Regulation. -
Dutch banks have been given the official green light to issue additional tier one bonds, after the country’s First Chamber of Parliament voted to pass a proposal allowing additional tier one coupon payments to be tax deductible.
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Demand in the Canadian derivatives markets is increasing as investors are drawn to the country’s financial stability, creditworthy banking system, proximity to the US and strong regulatory infrastructure. There has accordingly been a substantial growth in futures markets tied to the country’s natural resources and commodities trade, driven by both domestic and international investors.
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The launch of the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect has not dampened enthusiasm for the Renminbi Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor (RQFII) scheme among asset managers looking to get access to Chinese markets. UK-based Baring Asset Management is the latest to have picked up an RQFII licence and it is eyeing the scheme as a way of investing in Chinese A shares.
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Regulators demand numerous know-your-customer checks to be performed and accurate client and counterparty data checks be made. Not only do firms need to make substantial changes to their internal processes to meet these requirements, they must ensure that the counterparty and client data they hold is accurate from the outset and then efficiently managed forevermore. Legal entity data management is far from a simple task, however, and with a swathe of risk management and investor transparency requirements due to come into force over the coming years, firms need to give this critical activity some serious attention. To read the full Learning Curve titled ‘The big data challenge: firms must act now’ written by Mark Davies, general manager and head of Avox, please go to www.globalcapital.com/derivatives/learning-curves.
