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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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Bankers, independent researchers and lawyers still have questions regarding the costs of unconnected research ahead of the UK’s new IPO rules. All the market participants that spoke to Practice Insight were still confused about the logistics, with only a month to go before implementation

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

Product manufacturers wanting to continue selling in the EU are looking into a creative – but risky – new strategy to bypass the investor protection rules. While it might work for some, lawyers warn against it, arguing that the relief of not having to produce a KID is not worth the potential risk

The main steps a company must take are changing, as are the biggest risks to the financial sector