Bank of England maintains stock levels of government and corporate bonds
By Flora McFarlane.
The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has voted to maintain the stock of government bond purchases at £435 billion and...
Asset managers could avoid tying up collateral under new uncleared margin rules
The majority of asset managers dragged into new uncleared margin requirements over the next two years could avoid tying up capital altogether, but still...
Chinese govies step closer to collateral acceptability
Acceptance of Chinese government bonds as collateral will hinge upon rule changes around defaults. Lynn Strongin Dodds reports.
The use of Chinese government bonds as...
Five dealers select Droit for MiFID II Compliance
By Flora McFarlane.
BNP Paribas, Crédit Agricole CIB, Goldman Sachs, Lloyds and UBS are using Droit Financial Technologies for MiFID II trade compliance infrastructure.
Jo Hannaford,...
Ancoa post-mortem: Spend was over four times greater than revenue
Ancoa, the troubled market surveillance firm that went into administration on 5 May 2017, had an average monthly spend of £450,000 in 2017, or...
ICMA fills in the blanks on MiFID II agreement
A new article written by the regulatory team at the International Capital Markets Association (ICMA), has shed light on details in the agreed text...
BoE sets code of conduct for repo and securities lending
A new voluntary Money Markets Code setting out the standards and best practice expected from participants in the deposit, repo and securities lending markets...
Plan to replace Dodd-Frank formally introduced in House of Representatives
The chairman of the Financial Services Committee in the US House of Representatives, Jeb Hensarling, has formally introduced the Financial CHOICE Act, a proposed...
AFME welcomes political agreement over CSDR mandatory buy-in
The Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) has welcomed political agreement regarding the European Union's refit of the Central Securities Depositories Regulation (CSDR)....
Major concerns raised about repo
By Flora McFarlane.
Several buy-side practitioners have voiced warnings about the outlook for the ‘broken’ repo market, warning that European regulators needed to address the...
