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The Financial Stability Board has published its hotly anticipated paper on the final round of new bank capital requirements — Total Loss Absorbing Capacity, or TLAC. But the consultation paper, rushed out ahead of the G20 meetings in Brisbane this weekend, leaves the most important questions unanswered. -
The overall interest rate derivatives trading volume reported to swap data repositories last week was up 27% from the previous week, according to data from the International Swaps and Derivatives Association. This follows several weeks of consistent decline in the figures.
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Some derivatives market participants are weary of using credit hubs as they act as one single point of failure if a transaction were to fail because many parties are involved, according to panellists at the SEFCON V conference in New York on Wednesday. Parties at risk include swap execution facilities, clearing houses, futures commission merchants as well as their clients, the conference heard.
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Monday November 17 is looking set to be a busy day for Hong Kong's RMB business. Not only is it the official launch date for the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect (SHKSC) and the first possible date for the next auction of Chinese government dim sum bonds in Hong Kong, but now it will also mark the first opportunity for residents of the SAR to convert funds into renminbi with no daily limit.
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The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has asked market participants if it should prescribe which counterparty should be responsible for the creation and transmission of the unique trade identifier (UTI) in trade reporting. The UTI allows two counterparties to pair and match two sides of the same trade at a trade repository, however confusion over how one is generated has blighted reporting since it became mandatory earlier this year.
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Journalists sometimes have to choose between being fast and being right. The Financial Stability Board, with its Total Loss Absorbing Capacity (TLAC) plans, has chosen to be fast, and a weaker financial system will be the result.
