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The ratings review finished with both upgrades and downgrades linked to senior bonds now being subordinated to regular deposits
Public pension schemes have sold shares in coal, oil and gas companies but are still funding expansion of the gas industry through infrastructure funds
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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Malaysian banks are working with Swift (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) to design new standards on Islamic finance messaging. -
The European Securities and Markets Authority said outstanding EU sovereign debt reached a new record high in the first quarter this year, hitting €11.5tr, or 88% of EU GDP. In the eurozone, the total was €9.1tr or 93.9% of GDP (against the 60% required under the Maastricht treaty), according to the regulator’s Trends and Vulnerabilities report.
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Swap documentation such as the International Swaps and Derivatives Association master agreements and credit support annexes — the contracts at the heart of so much wrangling between issuers and dealers in the supranational and agency bond market in recent years — are likely to be non-existent in the coming years for firms that only trade vanilla products. This is due to regulation that requires certain financial instruments to be cleared through central counterparty (CCP) clearing houses, writes Beth Shah.
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US regulatory agencies firmed up their large bank liquidity rules on Wednesday, tweaking the final version to allow privately traded corporate debt into liquidity buffers, but holding firm on restricting munis, ABS, covered bonds and non-US agencies, in stark contrast to European liquidity standards, which have been gradually diluted.
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The need for credit support annexes may be reduced due to regulation that requires some financial instruments to be cleared through clearinghouses and traded on swap execution facilities, according to market officials.
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Heptagon Capital, a UK-based asset manager, has partnered with China's Harvest Global Investments to open fundraising for the first daily traded and actively managed China A shares UCITS fund. Meanwhile Ashmore Group, another UK fund manager, has announced three SICAV funds covering Chinese debt and equities.
