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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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This week the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) released details of China’s latest monetary easing move, a targeted reduction in the reserve requirement ratio (RRR) for certain financial institutions, writes Maia Ririnui of Total Derivatives. -
A rapidly approaching deadline for the mandatory clearing of onshore CNY interest rate swaps (IRS) threatens market access for a number of large international banks. Earlier this week the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) detailed China's latest targeted easing move, but the rates market kept its focus on recent strong data, writes Maia Ririnui of Total Derivatives.
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The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s text on non-modellable risk factors is too prescriptive and rigid, and could prevent the appropriate use of data, according to a number of industry associations.
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Many bond documents have huge holes in them when it comes to sanctions, which could in theory trap paying agents and other deal parties in civil and even criminal legal action.
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Banks that have already helped a number of corporates in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone (FTZ) integrate China treasury operations with regional and global centres are looking forward to the day when the potential of recent reforms is fully realised. The logical next step, they say, is for RMB cross-border two-way sweeping to be available to all corporates in China, not just those based in the FTZ.
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Post-trade transparency in the US, in the form of Trace, helped improve bid-offer spreads in the bond market more than a decade ago, and some investors and regulators are hoping European investors will get a better deal as the Mifid proposals come into force.
