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It is not enough to just undo some of the European Commission’s more controversial proposals
Despite a tepid response in a 2024 consultation, there are signs EU authorities are laying the groundwork
Parliament’s draft amendments are kinder to the market than Commission's
The conditions are set so that 2026 promises to be even better than the already impressive 2025. A deepening of esoteric asset classes, combined with entirely new deal types, as well as more debut issuers are set to be the key themes, writes Tom Hall
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The UK this week abandoned hope of winning a mutual deal on financial regulation equivalence with the EU, and did what many had expected: unilaterally granted European firms access to the UK’s market without gaining matching rights for UK firms. But although this looked like surrender, lawyers believe the UK might have the upper hand. -
The UK’s announcement that it would begin issuing green Gilts next year is raising hopes that it will inspire more green bond issuance from UK borrowers. But market participants are eager to see how the UK handles setting up a green debt programme and its own green taxonomy. Lewis McLellan and Jon Hay report.
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The European Court of Auditors has said that the EU’s Capital Markets Union still needs a lot of work and that obstacles to capital flowing across borders often relate to national laws. It also did not see signs of growth in the securitization market.
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The European Parliament voted on Tuesday to pass a package of amendments to the securitization framework aimed at freeing up bank balance sheets and increasing lending to the real economy. The so-called "quick fixes" were left largely unchanged, helping the proposals push quickly on to the trilogue process.
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UK chancellor Rishi Sunak’s announcement that large UK companies, whether listed or private, would need to make climate-related disclosures, was a step towards an important principle — that corporate transparency is a public good, and should be driven by governments, not listing authorities.
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The ease with which banks have been able to deploy retained covered bonds for repo funding with central banks has aggravated liquidity risks and undermined regulations that were designed to shore up liquidity management practices exposed as inadequate during the 2008 financial crisis.
