Brexit
SOFR, leverage and life after London
The week on Risk.net, July 14-20, 2018
Life after London: AMF urges revived capital markets union
French regulator wants supervisory convergence, examines Mifid II impact on market transparency
Brexit threatens some swaptions trades
Force majeure clauses could be triggered on physically settled contracts
Q&A: French regulator defends bank rules for prop traders
ACPR official wants to set asset threshold for full CRR application below current €30 billion
French regulator: we are not the Brexit bogeyman
AMF denies pursuing relocations from UK, but calls on EU27 to build its financial markets
Brexit dims hopes for Solvency II change in UK
Lawyers say political tensions may have killed off chance of reform, following PRA U-turn
ECB’s Angeloni: bullish on Brexit, wary on regulatory reform
Relocations from UK will boost EU capital markets; but CRR needs to remove national barriers
French ‘bombshell’ would gut Mifir equivalence, say lawyers
Leaked non-paper would also clamp down on reverse solicitation for EU wholesale clients
No safety net for no-deal Brexit, warns BdE’s Alonso
UK banks should not rely on temporary rule waivers being granted in the event of a disorderly Brexit
Local laws may save legacy swaps from Brexit migration
Exemptions from local authorisation may open a backdoor to servicing UK-EU contracts after Brexit
European banks face forex volatility on bail-in ratios
Use of funding in foreign currencies creates new risk, especially in non-eurozone countries
Brexit: banks consider four ways to move swaps en masse
Statutory business transfers in frame as bilateral novation may take too long
Going local: Brexit prompts rethink on MREL governing law
One EU regulator has already asked banks to avoid reliance on English law for bail-in
Giancarlo expects to resolve EU-US CCP spat
CFTC chairman lauds relationship with EU’s Dombrovskis
Swinburne: post-Brexit financial services deal could work
Isda AGM: Idea of comprehensive EU-UK deal immediately worries CFTC official
Isda chair on the swaps market’s power shift
A decade ago, dealers held 18 of 19 board seats – but crisis has forced trade body to change
End-users fear loss of Mifir’s open-access promise
Exchange groups have 30-month exemption from access rules; listed derivatives users concerned it will become permanent
FRTB threatens dynamic forex hedging of capital ratios
Industry says recent Basel proposals are unclear and retain burden of pre-approval for hedges
The long march: ECB struggles with supervisory convergence
Anti-money laundering supervision and emergency liquidity assistance still run at national level
CFTC’s Pan: PFMIs not a template for global regulation
US regulator has previously warned EU supervisors not to unpick hard-won equivalence agreement
Why Asia should hold fire on replicating EU holdco rules
China and Japan should wait for outcome of US regulatory review and Brexit before retaliating
