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Brexit and coronavirus spur EU to deepen capital market
September 24, 2020--The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU's securities markets regulator, has launched today a consultation on fees for benchmarks administrators under the BMR.
Companies need to refund themselves as they emerge from recession caused by pandemic lockdowns, with Brussels wanting them to use stock and bond markets and reduce reliance on bank loans.
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Source: reuters.com
Turkey raises interest rate in unexpected move to tackle lira's fall
September 24, 2020--Central bank's 2 percentage point increase reverses Erdogan's push for lower rates
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Source: FT.com
Exclusive: ECB plots Amazon-style market to prevent Wall Street COVID debt swoop
September 23, 2020--Europe is working on an Amazon-style website to sell hundreds of billions of euros of bank loans which have been soured by the coronavirus crisis, in a bid to shore up the economy and challenge the dominance of big Wall Street debt investors.
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Source: reuters.com
EU financial regulators assess risks to the financial sector after the outbreak of COVID-19 and call for enhanced cooperation
September 22, 2020--The three European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, EIOPA and ESMA -ESAs) have issued their first joint risk assessment Report of the financial sector since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Report highlights how the pandemic has led to further amplified profitability concerns across the board and heightened liquidity challenges in segments of the investment fund sector.
It particularly points to economic and market uncertainty as a key challenge going forward.
The impact of the crisis on EU banks's asset quality is a key concern as significant uncertainty about the timing and size of a recovery persists. The ESAs see a risk of decoupling of financial market performance from the underlying economic activity, and , a prolonged lower for longer interest rate environment which is expected to weigh on the profitability and solvency of financial institutions, as well as contributing to the build-up of valuation risks.
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Source: ESMA
Forecasts for the UK economy: September 2020
September 20, 2020--Forecasts for the UK economy is a monthly comparison of independent forecasts.
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Source: gov.uk
LSE Chooses Euronext, Italian Banks for Milan Bourse Talks
September 18, 2020-- London Stock Exchange Group Plc is in exclusive talks to sell Borsa Italiana to Euronext NV and two Italian institutions, as the government in Rome moves closer to repatriating ownership of its main equity-trading venue.
LSE, which is selling Borsa Italiana to get approval for its $27 billion Refinitiv deal, said in a statement it chose the group for talks over rival bidders that included Deut
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Source: bloombergquint.com
ECB-Euro area monthly balance of payments: July 2020
September 18, 2020--In July 2020 the current account of the euro area recorded a surplus of €17 billion, compared with a surplus of €21 billion in June 2020.[1]
In the 12-month period to July 2020, the current account recorded a surplus of €259 billion (2.2% of euro area GDP), compared with a surplus of €304 billion (2.6% of euro area GDP) in the 12 months to July 2019.
In the financial account, euro area residents made net acquisitions of foreign portfolio investment securities totalling €487 billion in the 12-month period to July 2020 (up from €160 billion in the 12 months to July 2019). Over the same period, non-residents made net acquisitions of euro area portfolio investment securities amounting to €406 billion (up from €188 billion).
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Source: ECB
European Green Deal: New financing mechanism to boost renewable energy
September 17, 2020--The European Commission has published today the rules for a new EU Renewable Energy Financing Mechanism, to apply from the start of 2021. This Mechanism will make it easier for Member States to work together to finance and deploy renewable energy projects-either as a host or as a contributing country.
The energy generated will count towards the renewable energy targets of all participating countries and feed into the European Green Deal ambition of reaching carbon neutrality by 2050.
s foreseen under the Energy Union Governance Regulation, this Mechanism will be managed by the Commission, bringing together investors and project developers through regular public tenders. It enables "contributing Member States” to pay voluntary financial contributions into the scheme, which will be used for renewable energy projects in interested Member States ("host Member States").
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Source: ec.europa.eu
ECB relaxes bank leverage regulation in attempt to boost economy
September 17, 2020--The European Central Bank has relaxed regulations on eurozone banks, freeing up as much as €73bn of capital in an attempt to boost lending and prevent the economic crisis triggered by the coronavirus pandemic from turning into a credit crunch.
The move announced by the ECB on Thursday grants lenders extra capital relief, enabling them to increase their lending to governments, businesses and households. It follows a similar, albeit more generous, move by the US Federal Reserve in April.
The leverage ratio rule- which regulates the amount of capital banks hold in relation to their assets -was introduced after the 2008 financial crisis in an attempt to prevent banks from operating with excessively indebted balance sheets. It requires eurozone lenders to have capital equal to at least 3 per cent of their total assets by next June.
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Source: technocodex.com
Emerging Europe and the capital markets union
September 17, 2020--The European Union's capital markets union (CMU) plan is in urgent need of a revamp. Because of Brexit, EU capital markets and supervision need to become more integrated. The ongoing deep recession increases the need for equity finance mobilised by capital markets.
The eleven EU countries in central and south-eastern Europe which joined the EU in 2004 and after (EU11) are particularly affected by the ongoing consolidation of exchanges, which has diminished liquidity in smaller markets and in the traded securities of mid-sized companies.
Corporate funding remains even more bank-dependent in the EU11 than in the rest of the EU. Equity capital, whether in the form of listed shares or directly supplied by investment funds, is particularly underdeveloped.
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Source: bruegel.org