Banks are taking action and cutting back or reallocating their teams after a misunderstanding over the regulatory technical standards implementation date. It began with an Isla announcement
Increasing regulation and market volatility has turned issuers to private placement debt and equity programmes. DCM dealers are seeing a rise in Asia and Latin American issuers; others see a high volume of covered bonds. Some are seeing no business at all
Trade groups and consultants are reticent about the international body’s statement on the €50 million IM exchange threshold. They say it does not provide enough certainty
Practice Insight’s latest landmark report sees in-house compliance managers and directors determined to learn from past regulatory mistakes when implementing the Securities Financing Transactions Regulation
Practice Insight surveys in-house lawyers on both the buy and sellside as they wrestle with Brexit preparations. Here they reveal product concerns, relocation strategies and the internal politics surrounding it all
Bankers, third-party verifiers and lawyers wish to see uniformity from national regulators on the interpretation of the STS rules for securitisation, specifically on the underlying pool of assets, data disclosure and treatment of receivable risks
