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Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft has hired a former associate general counsel at Goldman Sachs for its securitization practice in Washington, DC. -
Senator Bill Nelson (D-Florida) has proposed legislation to cap undergraduate federal student loan interest rates at 4%, following a slew of federal student loan rate hikes that kicked in last week.
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ABS deals not eligible for purchase by the European Central Bank will test the ability of the market to function without central bank participation, a potentially significant development given recent comments from ECB officials.
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The European Commission approved Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena’s (MPS) request for a ‘precautionary recapitalisation’ this week, throwing the Italian banking sector back into the limelight in an otherwise quiet week for the financial institutions bond market.
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Barclays has poached a senior fixed income capital markets banker from Morgan Stanley as it reinvests funds into its corporate and investment bank.
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The Basel Committee was a wonderful idea when was first convened. But with bank liquidity measures becoming more difficult to codify and different jurisdictions going their own way on a number of issues, the idea behind a united global banking standard might soon become irrelevant.
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European ABS spreads are grinding ever tighter across asset classes as issuers ride a wave of demand into the summer.
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The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has criticised the European Union’s recognition of non-RMBS securitizations as being eligible for treatment as high quality liquid assets (HQLA), as a deviation from the Basel framework.
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The business model of Premier League football is rapidly changing, from a ticket receipt revenue driven business to one driven by sponsorship and TV rights, and by using the capital markets, football clubs can finance their operations in more sophisticated ways.
