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China Gives the Nod for Investors to Buy Offshore Debt via Hong Kong, Opening the Southbound Leg of Bond Connect
By Enoch Yiu and Georgina Lee
September 17, 2021, South China Morning Post
The long-awaited southbound leg of the Bond Connect between mainland China and Hong Kong will encourage more …
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Financial Industry Urges Brussels to Extend Access to UK Clearing Houses
By Philip Stafford
September 16, 2021, Financial Times
US and European banks and asset managers have urged Brussels to extend the permit granting EU banks access to UK clearing houses …
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Trading Still Shrouded in Post-Brexit Uncertainty
By Thomas Helm
September 16, 2021, Practice Insight From IFLR
While market participants agree that the post-Brexit trading landscape has reached a period of relative stability, opinions differ on how long …
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Bank of England Says COVID Hitting Timing of Basel Bank Capital Rules
By Huw Jones
September 13, 2021, Reuters
Countries are facing “challenges” in rolling out final elements of tougher global bank capital rules and may need to coordinate on timing, a …
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Banks at Bigger Risk From Climate Than Subprime Mortgages, Researcher Says
By Saul Elbein
September 14, 2021, The Hill
Climate change is posing a bigger risk to bank balance sheets than the subprime mortgage crisis that contributed to the Great Recession, …
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European Equity Research Has Changed — ‘and That’s a Good Thing’
By Alexandra DeLuca
September 8, 2021, Institutional Investor
More than a year and half since the COVID-19 pandemic plunged Europe into lockdown and ushered the equity research industry into a …
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Wall Street Sees Treasury With Debt Limit Break-Glass Plan
By Liz Capo McCormick and Saleha Mohsin
September 13, 2021, Bloomberg
The Treasury Department says it has no plan to sort through which payments it would make, and which US …
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IOSCO Steps Up Scrutiny of Credit-Sensitive Rates
By Helen Bartholomew
September 12, 2021, Risk
Providers of credit-sensitive alternatives to the secured overnight financing rate, or SOFR, have been warned that their use of a hallmark indicating compliance with …
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Sterling LIBOR Market Confident About Year-End Phase-Out
By Alice Tchernookova
September 9, 2021, Practice Insight From IFLR
With under four months to go until the London interbank offered rate is phased out, the sterling LIBOR market is …
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US Judge Rejects Halting Use of LIBOR in Win for Banks
By Joel Rosenblatt
September 10, 2021, Bloomberg
A US judge signaled he won’t immediately terminate Libor, rejecting an effort by a group of borrowers who argued the benchmark is the …
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