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ESMA advises Commission on short-selling regulation
April 20, 2012--ESMA has published today its final advice on possible delegated acts concerning the Short-Selling Regulation.
ESMA's advice specifies the definition of when a natural or legal person is considered to own a financial instrument for the purposes of the definition of short sale (Article 2(2) of theRegulation).
Section II of the advice relates to the net position in shares or sovereign debt covering the concept of holding a position, the case when a person has a net short position and the method of calculation of such a position including when different entities in a group have long or short positions or for fund management activities related to separate funds (Article 3(7)).
Section III sets out the advice on the cases in which a credit default swap (CDS) transaction is considered to be hedging against a default risk or the risk of a decline of the value of the sovereign debt and the method of calculation of an uncovered position in a CDS (Article 4(2)).
Turkey-Sustained and Equitable Growth for Continued Economic Success
April 20, 2012--Synopsis
Turkey is one of the greatest success stories of the global economy based on its rapid economic growth and development over the last decade. Extreme poverty has been eliminated; the Millennium Development Goals for maternal mortality and universal primary education have been achieved; and Turkey is working towards reaching the remaining goals by 2015.
Turkey's partnership with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) is focused on sustained and equitable growth and has delivered results on macroeconomic stabilization, the development of a clean, sustainable, and reliable energy sector, and improved health outcomes.
Challenge
Turkey is an upper middle-income country, and with a GDP of US$ 875 billion, it is the world's sixteenth-largest economy. Total population is 75 million and per capita annual income is just above US$ 10,000. Since 2001, Turkey has stabilized its economy and other countries—most notably those in the Middle East and North Africa—look to Turkey's political and economic system as a potential model to emulate. Accession to the European Union (EU), initiated in 2005, remains a firm long-term aim.
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Source: World Bank
DTCC, EFETnet Launch Global Trade Repository For Commodities Derivatives
April 19, 2012--EFETnet B.V. and The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) announced today that, following their successful pilot program launched in January as the first global repository for OTC commodity swaps, they have begun accepting trade submissions from commodity market participants into the new Global Trade Repository for Commodities (GTRfC).
DTCC and EFETnet's industry governed low-cost model provides users the ability to submit trades to a single repository in order to fulfill reporting obligations to regulators globally.
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Source: DTCC
ECB publishes the Eurosystem Oversight Report 2011
April 19, 2012--The European Central Bank (ECB) has today published the Eurosystem Oversight Report 2011, which provides information on the Eurosystem's oversight policies and main oversight activities between the late summer of 2009 and the late summer of 2011. The previous and first Eurosystem Oversight Report was published in November 2009.
The report comprises four chapters and three annexes. Chapter 1 provides an update on the Eurosystem’s oversight policies and reports on EU legal initiatives that are relevant for the Eurosystem’s oversight function. It also summarises developments in oversight standards, and reports on existing and new cooperative oversight arrangements as well as on the activities performed within these arrangements. Chapter 2 presents the Eurosystem’s main oversight activities. Chapter 3 gives an outlook for future activities, which will include, in particular, a review of the Eurosystem’s oversight policies once the new principles for financial market infrastructures being developed by the Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems (CPSS) and the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) have been finalised. Finally, Chapter 4 contains three articles, entitled “Progress in OTC derivatives market reform: a Eurosystem perspective”, “TARGET2 transactions: data and analysis” and “A survey on the role of technological service providers in retail payments in Italy and in Greece”. Annexes to the report provide details of oversight policy documents and links to Eurosystem central banks’ websites, where more information on overseen infrastructures and arrangements can be found.
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Source: ECB
Hedge fund assets swell to new high
April 19, 2012--The global hedge fund industry has seen its assets swell to a new high, according to the latest data from a leading hedge fund database.
Hedge funds now manage an estimated $2.13tn in assets on behalf of pension funds, governments, asset managers and high net worth individuals, Hedge Fund Research said in quarterly numbers released on Thursday.
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Source: FT.com
Market volatility sparks leveraged ETF trading
April 19, 2012--Trading of leveraged exchange-traded funds soared in Europe last week after an increase in volatility produced gains for investors, pushing trading volumes up to a six-month high.
Data from European ETF provider Lyxor showed that trading of the products increased to around €2.3bn last week, up 45% on the previous week.
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Source: efinancial news
IMF warns against big bank deleveraging in Europe
April 18, 2012--Growing pressure on European banks to clean up their books could deeply impact economic growth in the eurozone, the International Monetary Fund warned Wednesday.
Though Europe's policymakers have taken important steps to address the public debt crisis, the pressure on banks to reduce their balance sheets could have negative consequences on output, the IMF said in its twice-yearly Global Financial Stability Report.
Pressures from the eurozone debt crisis and regulatory needs to strengthen capital cushions to regain investor trust are driving a broader effort to reduce balance sheet size, the report said.
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Source: EUbusiness
Wen says China to 'firmly support' efforts to maintain euro
April 18, 2012--China will firmly support efforts to maintain the stability of the euro and the European economy, Premier Wen Jiabao told German Chancellor Angela Merkel Wednesday, state media said.
In a telephone conversation with Merkel on the European debt crisis, Wen said China had always had confidence in Europe's economy and the stability of the single currency, Xinhua news agency reported.
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Source: EUbuisness
A new EDHEC-Risk survey reveals that "transparency, information and governance" tops the list of concerns for European fund management industry professionals in the area of non-financial risk management
April 17, 2012--More than 160 high-level European fund management industry professionals were surveyed by EDHEC-Risk as part of the "Risk and Regulation in the European Fund Management Industry" research chair, sponsored by CACEIS.
For the respondents to this survey, entitled "Shedding Light on Non-Financial Risks – a European Survey," the main causes of the increase in non-financial risks are firstly the growing sophistication of operations (a cause considered important by 77% of respondents), followed by the reduced capacity of some intermediaries to guarantee deposits (59%), unclear or inappropriate regulation (57%) and finally the total absence of responsibility of management companies regarding restitution (53%).
The main message from this study is that the regulatory priorities for the respondents relate to themes to which the regulator has paid less attention in recent work, notably AIFMD. For the respondents, "transparency, information and governance" are the priority for the regulation of non-financial risks, followed by the financial responsibility of the industry. On the latter point, it is important to stress the recognition that non-financial risks are largely the consequence of the fund manager’s decisions.
view the EDHEC-Risk Institute Publication Shedding Light on Non-Financial Risks-a European Survey
Source: EDHEC
March 2012--Euro area annual inflation stable at 2.7%
April 17, 2012--Euro area1 annual inflation was 2.7% in March 2012, unchanged compared with February2. A year earlier the rate was 2.7%. Monthly inflation was 1.3% in March 2012.
EU3 annual inflation was 2.9% in March 2012, unchanged compared with February. A year earlier the rate was
3.1%. Monthly inflation was 1.1% in March 2012.
These figures come from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union.
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Source: Eurostat
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