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The Central Bank of Ireland (CBI) recently published its 2017 annual report. It is essential reading for Irish finance services regulatory advisers, and for any entity with a business presence in Ireland in the banking and financial services sector.

The EU’s new framework to encourage high quality securitisations contains a revised set of rules together with criteria for simple, transparent and standardised securitisations

Thailand has the highest solar and wind power output in ASEAN. The Thai regulators adopted an adder tariff policy, and subsequently a feed-in tariff policy, which provided incentives for renewable projects.

The European Parliament recently passed a new regulation on securitisation, which is part of the capital markets union action plan. Regulation (EU) 2017/2402 of the European Parliament and Council, of December 12 2017 (the Securitisation Regulation), establishes a general framework for securitisation and creates a specific framework for simple, transparent and standardised securitisation. Its aim is to promote a safe and liquid market for securitisation. An amendment was also implemented relating to the regulation on capital requirements. Its purpose is to make the capital treatment of securitisations for banks and investment firms more risk-sensitive and to reflect the specific features of simple, transparent and standardised securitisations.

Urs Feller and Marcel Frey of Prager Dreifuss provide an overview of the rights of heirs when identifying Swiss assets

Its manifesto has already caused yields to go up and more lax ECB approach risks jeopardising eurozone stability

A closer look at proprietary trading under the landmark Rule, and why its definition needs to be rethought

Harmonisation of insolvency rules and a European bad bank would go a long way to reducing NPL levels

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As firms consider the options proposed by regulators, bankers are concerned that early access for external researchers poses a confidentiality breach. But unconnected analysts push back, arguing that it’s on banks to prove they haven’t promised favourable research in exchange for a syndicate position