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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 Bank of Japan has said that it will pay extra on reserves deposited by banks that become more cost efficient or that merge. A similar policy could well be introduced in Europe too, although perhaps with different aims. -
US president-elect Joe Biden’s student debt relief plan is a dialled down version of what Democratic candidates were proposing on the campaign trail in the run up to the 2020 election. But rather than focus on the incoming president’s priorities, observers should be thinking about the lasting impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the $1.6tr of outstanding student debt.
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Yves Mersch, one of the ECB governing council’s staunchest hawks, has a new argument for why the central bank must abridge its purchase programmes: by keeping down the borrowing costs of the eurozone periphery, the ECB is helping countries to “circumvent EU loans”, which he thinks should not be allowed to happen.
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The UK will issue its first green Gilts next year, create its own Taxonomy of green activities and oblige large companies and investors to report as recommended by the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures by 2025, the chancellor of the exchequer Rishi Sunak said on Monday.
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In this round-up, China’s financial system gives up Rmb1.25tr ($190bn) in profits to support the real economy, the central bank releases its annual financial stability report, and the country’s foreign exchange reserves by the end of October miss forecast.
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In this round up, China plans to expand its digital economy, local governments issue over Rmb6tr ($906bn) of bonds by October, and the National Association of Financial Market Institutional Investors announces a trial programme for cash tender offers for corporate bonds in the interbank market.
