EC: regulators could adapt rules to protect bond liquidity

Official recognises regulatory hit to corporate bond and repo markets, but rejects Mifid delay

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The European Commission will continue to weigh the impact of regulations on secondary corporate bond market liquidity and could adapt the rules further, according to a top European legislator, who said robust corporate bond markets are viewed as a necessary step for a European capital markets union.

“Clearly, corporate bonds and repos were identified as markets where the cumulative weight of the regulation had led to a change in dynamics, and had led to a change in the capacity of the market to

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