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The establishment of Frankfurt as the Eurozone’s first offshore clearing hub for renminbi trade settlement will be of huge benefit to European corporates trading with China, especially those in the small and medium sized enterprise (SME) sector, according to Frank-Oliver Wolf, global head of cash management and international business at Commerzbank. -
In this round-up, two more swap line agreements are signed, China and Hong make progress on their mutual trading Stock Connect initiative and more plans are made for a Shantou pilot zone.
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The recent relaxation of foreign investment restrictions in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone (FTZ) is unlikely to have been enough to rekindle foreign corporates' interest in the zone, say experts.
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Barclays has roundly rejected the New York attorney general’s complaint about its dark pool, saying that it is based on “clear and substantial factual errors” and that the very documents that the suit is based on “along with the complaint’s other fatal flaws” should get it thrown out.
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When Scott O’Malia, commissioner at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in Washington DC, takes up his new role as chief executive officer of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, derivative trade data will be top of the agenda. Though swap data reporting has been running for two years in the US, there is still no automated way to crunch the data — a problem on both sides of the regulatory fence which O'Malia has been trying to solve for years at the CFTC.
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The European repo market is battling to improve discipline and reduce the level of trade fails, which, driven by negative rates, restrictive capital rules and illiquidity in the bond markets, could shrink liquidity even further. But harsh punishments for trade fails contained in the European Central Securities Depositories Regulation could be counterproductive, and the industry, backed by the ECB, is trying to have them changed.
