European Union (EU)
Nordea plumps bail-in buffers as it moves to Finland
Nordic bank plans €10 billion senior non-preferred debt issue by 2021
FCA could kill off Libor, says Bailey
Warning breaks new ground, provoking immediate responses at CFTC meeting
EU trading venues warn over looming end of LEI relief
Expelling issuers with no legal entity identifiers could hurt liquidity and investor strategies
Seeing red: EU banks swamped by stress test demands
Banks’ stress test submissions receiving tens of thousands of error messages from local supervisors
Isin database users oppose further fee increase
Derivatives Service Bureau may hike fees for top users to cover cost of proposed additional services
European banks face ‘bottleneck’ to complete EBA stress test
New accounting rules and supervisor demands squeeze teams prepping for 2018’s exercise
EC official offers hope to prop traders on capital rules
Official sees problems in draft regulation, says EU council and parliament are discussing them
Asian NDF fixings threat signals yet another deadline drama
Extraterritorial reach is not new to region, but EU Benchmarks Regulation poses real risks
Replacing too big to fail with too small to survive
Subordinated debt requirement will hit smaller banks hardest
US CVA charges over seven times higher than EU
Huge disparity appears to result from EU exemption for corporate trades
EU close to granting swaps-trading equivalence to Singapore
Planned MAS trading obligation would otherwise seal off local traders from global liquidity
Funding in the dark: EU banks wait on bail-in bond rules
Issuance strategies clouded by uncertainty over MREL subordination and pre-positioning
European banks face forex volatility on bail-in ratios
Use of funding in foreign currencies creates new risk, especially in non-eurozone countries
Brexit: banks consider four ways to move swaps en masse
Statutory business transfers in frame as bilateral novation may take too long
Europe struggles to get a grip on derivatives transparency
Mifid reporting has fallen short of US swaps data, but national regulators are partly to blame
South Korea prepares for EU benchmark equivalence
New regulatory framework aims to allow European firms to continue using local benchmarks
Single-dealer platforms win in Mifid forex shake-up
Best execution rules not driving liquidity away from sole dealer platforms as expected
Giancarlo expects to resolve EU-US CCP spat
CFTC chairman lauds relationship with EU’s Dombrovskis
The long march: ECB struggles with supervisory convergence
Anti-money laundering supervision and emergency liquidity assistance still run at national level
Europe’s co-op banks face capital hit from new Basel rules
Sharp increase in risk weight for strategic equity stakes will capture ownership of apex banks
Not waiving but drowning: EU banks face capital traps
Council and some MEPs try to kill cross-border capital and liquidity waivers in CRR II
European supervisors may step in over Priips confusion
Differences in how issuers disclose product costs harming comparability, observers say
Brexit issues for carbon market must be solved soon
UK departure from EU ETS is causing headaches for energy traders and risk managers, writes energy consultant
CFTC reviewing de minimis threshold for non-US swap firms
Risk of dual registration deterring use of US-EU venue equivalence deal, says official