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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
Amundi closes 11 France-domiciled ETFs
September 15, 2020--Amundi has closed 11 France-domiciled exchange traded funds, further concentrating its business in Luxembourg and away from its home market.
The ETFs, which had €110m in assets under management at the end of June, were closed by Europe’s largest listed fund manager in August.
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Source: technocodex.com
Financing the European Union: New Context, New Responses
September 11, 2020-With the European Union for the first time taking on debt to help finance the economic recovery from the coronavirus, new resources are needed to fund the EU budget. Various ideas have been floated-including a digital tax and a financial transactions tax-but the most appropriate new resource would be revenues from the EU emissions trading system, which could provide enough funding to repay the EU's coronavirus borrowing.
Roughly two thirds of the European Union's budget is financed out of member states' national tax revenues. These resources, based on gross national incomes, are transparent, fair and in line with the principle of subsidiarity but they lead to political debates that emphasise the cost of EU spending rather than the benefits, and add to the perception of the EU budget in terms of net balances, rather than value added.
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Source: bruegel.org
ECB-Euro area securities issues statistics: July 2020
September 10, 2020--The annual growth rate of the outstanding amount of debt securities issued by euro area residents was 7.3% in July 2020, compared with 7.2% in June.
For the outstanding amount of listed shares issued by euro area residents, the annual growth rate was 0.1% in July 2020, compared with 0.0% in June.
Debt securities
New issuance of debt securities by euro area residents totalled EUR 773.2 billion in July 2020. Redemptions amounted to EUR 698.8 billion and net issues to EUR 74.5 billion. The annual growth rate of outstanding debt securities issued by euro area residents was 7.3% in July 2020, compared with 7.2% in June.
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Source: ECB
Investors see lower net returns from potential closet index funds
September 9, 2020--The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU securities markets regulator, today publishes a Working Paper on Closet Indexing Indicators and Investor Outcomes.
The study finds that investors can expect lower net returns from closet indexers than from a genuinely actively managed fund portfolio. A summary of this study was also included in the Trends, Risks and Vulnerabilities report published on 2 September.
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Source: ESMA
New Tabula ETF on Xetra: US and European investment grade credit default swaps
September 9, 2020--Since Wednesday, a new Exchange Traded Fund issued by Tabula is tradable on Xetra and Börse Frankfurt.
The Tabula Global IG Credit Curve Steepener UCITS ETF (EUR) Acc gives investors the opportunity to invest in credit default swaps with investment grade rating from Europe (iTraxx Index) and the USA (CDX IG Index).
Both the iTraxx Europe and the CDX IG Index each contain 125 credit default swaps (CDS). In order to benefit from a steeper credit curve, a long position is opened in the most recently issued five-year CDS and a short position in the most recently issued ten-year CDS. In order to maintain the current CDSs at all times, the indices are reviewed on a monthly basis.
Credit default swaps are instruments through which banks in particular pass on the default risk of their borrowers to third parties, so-called guarantors. The guarantors receive a premium for this. In return, they commit to make a compensation payment to the bank if the borrower is in arrears with his payments or defaults.
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Source: Deutsche Börse
Climate finance: an agenda for EU coordination with emerging markets
September 9, 2020-Addressing the challenge of financing the low-carbon transition will require substantial investment in the European Union and in emerging and developing economies. Sustainable finance frameworks have proliferated in advanced and emerging markets but fragmentation of financial flows due to different classification systems and standards for green financial instruments is a real risk.
Ensuring consistency should be a core agenda for the new International Platform on Sustainable Finance.
Estimates suggest that about 70% of the infrastructure investment needed for the low-carbon transition will have to be deployed in the emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs). Countries’ updated nationally determined commitments, which are due ahead of the COP-26 UN climate summit in 2021, will underline the scale of this challenge. They are bound to highlight considerable financing shortfalls as resources from national budgets and development funds will be scarce in the aftermath of the current recession.
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Source: bruegel.org
New UBS ETF on Xetra: Currency-hedged sustainable corporate bonds worldwide
September 8, 2020--Since Tuesday, a new Exchange Traded Fund issued by UBS Global Asset Management has been tradable on Xetra and Börse Frankfurt.
The UBS ETF- Bloomberg Barclays MSCI Global Liquid Corporates Sustainable UCITS ETF (hedged to EUR) A-acc enables investors to participate in the performance of fixed income corporate bonds with an investment grade rating.
The bonds from the USA, Canada, the euro zone and the UK are issued in local currency and take sustainability criteria into account. To be included in the index, the bonds must have a remaining maturity of at least one year and must have been issued in the last three to five years. The exchange rate risk against the euro is minimized and accruing coupon payments are reinvested.
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Source: Deutsche Börse
EU restarts probe into London Stock Exchange-Refinitiv merger
September 8, 2020--The European Commission has restarted an investigation into the $27bn (£s;20bn) merger between the London Stock Exchange Group and information provider Refinitiv, with a result expected by 16 December.
The investigation into the tie-up, which kicked off in June, was halted in July while the Commission waited for the pair to provide information that it had requested.
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Source: fnlondon.com
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