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Members of the European Banking Federation have called on supervisory authorities for help through the ‘temporary struggle’ of the Covid-19 pandemic, asking them for looser capital and liquidity requirements and special treatment of lending impacted by the virus. -
As the coronavirus advances deeper into the US and northern Europe, capital markets have had one of their most shocking and arduous weeks for many years.
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The coronavirus will depress mergers and acquisitions activity, hurt advisory revenues and change the emphasis of deal-making in 2020, writes David Rothnie.
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The UK has pledged £30bn ($37.62bn) of stimulus to cushion the coronavirus pandemic’s economic impact, and now the Debt Management Office’s remit is expected to be £40bn higher than last year. But the Budget, delivered by UK chancellor Rishi Sunak on Wednesday, seemed to have little effect on Gilt yields, despite rising on the day.
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The Bank of England’s unscheduled decision to cut rates and encourage banks to lend to the real economy on Wednesday morning was viewed as a powerful step by some in the market, although it is very unlikely to put to bed economic uncertainty over the impact of coronavirus.
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Wild swings in equity market volatility have caused a rush to reassess derivatives positions, as the cost of hedging increases and weakness emerges in more exotic products.
