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How MiFID II is slowly killing the trade
By Alice Tchernookova
November 14, 2019, Practice Insight from IFLR
Although recent reports showed MiFID II has helped make savings and improve conditions for end investors, many argue its impact …
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ECB fires up lending to peripheral banks with bonus rate
By Balazs Koranyi and Francesco Canepa
November 12, 2019, Reuters
Banks in Italy and other peripheral euro zone countries are grabbing tens of billions of euros in idle cash from …
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Bad quality loans halved since 2015: E.U. banking watchdog
By Huw Jones
November 8, 2019, Reuters
The stockpile of bad bank loans in the European Union has halved over the past four years but remains hefty at lenders in …
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Fed survey: Banks tighten credit for commercial, real estate loans
CNBC’s Steve Liesman reports on new results out of a Fed survey that show credit is tightening for commercial and real estate loans.…
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Banks, funds propose shorter trading day in Europe, bourses split
By Huw Jones
November 6, 2019, Reuters
Banks and fund managers want the European stock trading day shortened by 90 minutes in a radical move they say would improve market …
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Reimagining Financial Services
Artificial intelligence and machine learning have fundamentally altered the way we live, work, and interact. With the arrival of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the biggest changes are yet to come. …
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New York Fed CRO urges banks to improve risk controls
By Steve Marlin
November 6, 2019, Risk
Banks are choking under a proliferation of risk controls intended to help them prevent disruptions – rendering them more vulnerable to outside threats, …
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All clear? Structural shifts add to repo madness
By Robert Mackenzie Smith
November 5, 2019, Risk
On September 17, rates on overnight repo, backed by the bedrock pledge of U.S. Treasuries, suddenly lurched to 10% from typically low …
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Market structure changes to shake up repo trading
By Joe Parsons
November 6, 2019, The Trade
Market structure changes such as the move to sponsored clearing and interest in electronic trading could significantly shake up the way repo …
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Dimon says problems like the repo lending crunch could happen ‘increasingly if we’re not careful’
By Jeff Cox
November 5, 2019, CNBC
The kinds of problems that sent short-term lending rates soaring in mid-September could happen more often if permanent fixes aren’t found, JP Morgan …
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