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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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Fears that Australia’s resources boom is finally coming to a close drove credit default swap prices on the nation’s biggest miners to rise sharply within the last week.
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The European Parliament has set an indicative date of Oct. 23 for a plenary discussion on legislative proposals for the amended Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR) and Markets in Financial Instruments Directove (MiFID).
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The American Securitization Forum is pushing to exclude securitization entities from being considered as commodity pools and is preparing a letter to be handed to all the Volcker rule regulators tomorrow requesting relief from the Volcker rule.
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Most covered bonds cannot be hedged with sovereign credit default swaps, because they do not meet for the correlation level required under the European Union’s short selling ban set to start Oct. 1, according to a Bank of America Merrill Lynch report.
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Japan’s Financial Services Agency and the Bank of Japan are calling on the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to shelve regulations for swap dealer registration until a global consensus on the rules can be formed.
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Banks should employ risk mitigation regimes to identify, measure, monitor and control replacement cost risk for fx transactions until settlement has been confirmed and reconciled, according to the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision.