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Basel Proportionality Key for Regional Players – Bundesbank
By Jack Ball
April 16, 2018, Global Investor Group
Proportional implementation of Basel II is key to ensure smaller and regional institutions are not overburdened by compliance, a member of …
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The Long March: ECB Struggles with Supervisory Convergence
By Callum Tanner
April 17, 2018, Risk
Advocates of closer European integration have long seen the impending departure of one of its foremost critics – the U.K. – as an …
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MiFID II Author Warns Brexit Could Undo Years of Financial Reform
By Samuel Agini
April 18, 2018, Financial News
A leading European politician who spent the best part of a decade helping to shape post-crisis financial regulation has warned that Brexit …
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Brussels Seeks Emergency Powers to Prepare for Hard Brexit
By Alex Barker
April 18, 2018, Financial Times
Brussels is issuing dozens of legal proposals on Brexit over the next 10 weeks, in a flurry of lawmaking to prepare the …
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ISLA ‘Unconvinced’ that Haircut Levels a ‘Material Contributor’ to the Financial Crisis
By Maddie Saghir
April 16, 2018, Securities Lending Times
The International Securities Lending Association (ISLA) said it was “unconvinced that haircut levels were a material contributor to the financial crisis,” …
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CCPs Are Steering Margin Around the System – ICMA
By Louisa Chender
April 17, 2018, Global Investor Group
irms are using the repo market to fund margin requirements at central counterparties (CCPs) but in some cases it is redistributed …
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Global Interest Rate Derivatives Contracts Reach Largest Number on Record
By Hayley McDowell
April 17, 2018, The Trade
The number of contracts traded globally for interest rate derivatives reached the highest number on record in 2017, according to statistics from …
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Firms Play Regulatory Odds on GDPR
By Rob Daly
April 16, 2018, Markets Media
The race to meet the May 25 deadline for the E.U.’s General Data Privacy Regulation is a race that many hedge funds …
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ESMA Weighs in on GDPR Data Transfers
By Julie Aelbrecht
April 16, 2018, Global Investor Group
The European Securities and markets Authority has weighed in on the issue of data transfers under the General Data Protection Regulation …
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AI and Best Execution: The Investment Banker’s Dream Team
By Chris Skinner
Originally published at Chris Skinner’s blog, The Finanser
I don’t often blog about investment banking as it bores my readers who are cool and trendy retail bankers …
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