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Trafigura defends traders against European capital regulations
March 23, 2015--A crash in oil prices has once again proven the resilience of trading houses and shown there is no need to put them under strict capital requirement regulations, research funded by trading house Trafigura showed on Monday.
The report came as European authorities review a set of regulations known as the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid II), which contains capital requirement directive (CRD IV) aimed at cutting systemic risks across equity, fixed income and commodity markets.
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Source: Reuters
Deutsche Bank Said to Weigh Shrinking Securities Unit
March 23, 2015--Deutsche Bank AG, which runs Europe's biggest investment bank, is looking at shrinking its trading businesses as it reviews three options to boost the firm's profitability, according to a person familiar with the matter.
To help lift returns, the bank is considering paring its interest-rate trading business and the prime finance activities that cater to hedge funds, said the person, who asked not to be identified speaking about private discussions.
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Source: Bloomberg
ESMA-Call for evidence on private and bilateral SFIs
March 20, 2015--Summary
This call for evidence should be read by all those involved in the EU securitisation markets. It is particularly targeted at the following market participants and the groups and trade associations who represent them:
Issuers, originators and sponsors of Structured Finance Instruments (SFIs);
Investors acting in the securitisation markets;
Market intermediaries other than the issuers, originators and sponsors of SFIs.
Societe Generale launches range of Short & Leverage ETPs
March 20, 2015--SG has launched a range of new products called Short & Leverage ETPs.
Short and Leverage ETPs are fixed term investment products, which enable you to take Long (rising markets), or...
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Source: Société Generale
EBA consults on exposures to shadow banking
March 19, 2015--The EBA launched a public consultation on its guidelines proposing criteria to set limits on EU institutions' exposures to shadow banking entities.
The document lays out a qualitative approach for institutions to develop their internal policies for monitoring and setting appropriate limits, both at individual and aggregate levels. These guidelines will also help inform the Commission's work in relation to its report on the appropriateness and impact of imposing limits on exposures to shadow banking entities under Article 395(2) of the Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR). The consultation runs until 19 June 2015.
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Source: EBA (European Banking Authority)
New iShares ETF launched on Xetra
ETF provides access to UK real estate sector
March 19, 2015--A new iShares ETF from BlackRock's product offering has been tradable in Deutsche Börse's XTF segment on Xetra since Thursday.
Name: iShares MSCI Target UK Real Estate UCITS ETF
Asset class: equity index ETF
ISIN: DE000A14PKP1
Ongoing charges: 0.40 percent
Distribution policy: distributing
Benchmark: MSCI UK Liquid Real Estate Index
The iShares MSCI Target UK Real Estate UCITS ETF provides investors with access to the performance of real estate in the UK.
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Source: Xetra
ESMA sees increased convergence in automated trading supervision
March 18, 2015--The supervision of automated trading has become more convergent across the European Union (EU), a recent review by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has found. ESMA reviewed how the 30 national competent authorities (NCAs) across the EU have implemented ESMA guidelines on automated trading into their day-to-day supervision of trading platforms.
The Guidelines set out systems and controls requirements for investment firms and trading platforms operating in an automated trading environment.
The review analysed supervisory practices across 30 NCAs, with a focus on the twelve NCAs supervising trading platforms with the most significant automated trading volumes. Overall, the majority of NCAs had integrated the guidelines into their supervisory approaches thus increasing the level of supervision of automated trading activity. Looking at the national implementations, the review identified good practices observed by some NCAs regarding the supervision of IT-standards, governance and security at trading platform level, as well as NCA consideration of cyber-security, trading halts and real-time surveillance of direct market access.
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Source: ESMA
BlackRock launches UK real estate ETF
March 18, 2015--BlackRock has launched the iShares MSCI Target UK Real Estate Ucits ETF with the aim of achieving risk and return profile similar to physical real estate.
The firm has launched similar ETF providing targeted exposure to US real estate in January.
This ETF offers exposure to UK real estate with expectations to reflect the characteristics of physical real estate ...
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Source: Investment Europe
New Bank of England regulator warns of risks from U.S, rate hikes, dollar strength
March 17, 2015--The start of U.S. interest rate rises could inject volatility into global financial markets and create risks for Britain's financial stability, a new member of the Bank of England's top panel of financial regulators said on Tuesday.
Alex Brazier, who took a seat on the BoE's Financial Policy Committee on Monday, cited the normalisation of U.S. borrowing costs as one of the main global risks for markets.
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Source: Reuters
Lyxor-Monthly European ETF Market Trends-FEB 2015 in brief
March 16, 2015--European ETF market flows for February 2015 came very
close to last month's three-year record high. Net New Assets (NNA) over the month totalled EUR 10.4 billion. Total Assets under Management are up 17% vs. the end of 2014, reaching EUR 424
billion, and including a significant market impact (+6.8%*).
ETFs from all the main asset classes saw close to three-year record-high
inflows in a more risk-on environment
Equity ETF inflows were also close to January 2015’s three-year record high, standing at EUR 6.2 billion. The QE outlook in Europe drove investors to favour European equity ETFs, which collected more than EUR 5.3 billion. Conversely, US equity ETFs registered their first month of outflows in three years, totalling EUR 682 million.
Interestingly, in an environment characterised by reduced deflationary fears and a recovery of oil prices, emerging equity ETFs rallied with inflows of EUR 568 million. This follows two months of significant outflows and mainly concerned Indian ETFs and Global MSCI exposure.
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Source: Lyxor
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