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Overall credit default swap notional that was reported to swap data repositories last week decreased by 4% from the previous week, according to data from the International Swaps and Derivatives Association. This follows six weeks of a consistent uptick in CDS notional, with a combined increase of 160%.
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Sukuk is breaking free of regional boundaries to become an increasingly global market, senior IMF economists have told IFIS. Concentration risk is still one the biggest challenges for the growing market, but they expect the clear benefits of issuing sukuk bring more and more new issuers into the fold. -
Live order book trading of market agreed coupon swaps is now trading on UBS’ electronic trading platform Neo, making it the first platform to offer an aggregated order book for MAC swaps.
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Michel Barnier, outgoing vice-president of the European Commission, has described a real European capital market as “my dream, which can be inherited by my successor”, writes Owen Sanderson.
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Dealers are facing increasing costs when providing clearing services to pension funds amid the regulatory push to move trades to clearing houses. The lack of netting provisions for pension funds means capital charges for dealers are high, with the result that leading banks are questioning the viability of the business without a rise in clearing prices.
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The final text of European liquidity rules allows unrated covered bonds into the asset buffers banks must hold, in a move that demonstrates the European Commission's willingness to rely less on the credit rating agencies. Unrated covered bonds sit alongside various categories of securitization in the European version of the rules, which allow far more assets to be considered liquid than originally envisaged by the Basel Committee.
