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Underwriting standards slipping
The OCC's latest annual survey of credit underwriting suggests that underwriting standards in the US...
News Round-up 31 January 2014 -
Reg AB 2 vote scheduled
The US SEC is to hold an open meeting on 5 February to discuss, among other topics, Regulation AB 2....
News Round-up 31 January 2014 -
EU prop trading rules proposed
The European Commission has proposed rules to prevent large banks from engaging in proprietary tradi...
News Round-up 30 January 2014 -
CIR RFC issued
Moody's has published a request for comment seeking feedback on proposed changes to its methodology...
News Round-up 28 January 2014 -
PCAs to address commingling risk
German securitisations are increasingly being structured with a PCA that is a collection account in...
News Round-up 28 January 2014 -
SIX incorporates pre-LEIs
SIX Financial Information is teaming up with Avox to provide pre-legal entity identifiers (pre-LEIs)...
Job Swaps 28 January 2014 -
Asian ratings poised for positive performance
S&P expects collateral performance and structural enhancement to underpin stable to marginal...
News Round-up 28 January 2014 -
Turkish covered bonds bolstered
The Turkish Capital Market Board has released a definitive communiqué that unifies and impr...
News Round-up 28 January 2014 -
Law firm strengthens finance team
Alexandra Margolis has joined Nixon Peabody's global finance team as a partner in New York. She join...
Job Swaps 23 January 2014 -
RFC issued on sovereign approach
Fitch has published a criteria exposure draft detailing how ratings of structured finance (SF) notes...
News Round-up 23 January 2014 -
Banks rethink fixed income
Banks are continuing to restructure their global fixed income businesses, scaling back or exiting ce...
Job Swaps 22 January 2014 -
Country risk weighs on covered bonds
Country risk remains the main influence on the performance of European covered bonds, according to S...
News Round-up 21 January 2014 -
Infrastructure risk transfer unit debuts
Mariner Investment Group has launched Mariner Infrastructure Investment Management (MIIM), a bank de...
News Round-up 21 January 2014 -
Derivatives lawyer makes switch
Sebastian Reger has joined Sackers as an associate director. The derivatives lawyer was previously a...
Job Swaps 20 January 2014 -
Improved fundamentals highlighted
The Fitch Fundamentals Index (FFI) remained in neutral territory but rose to +2 in 4Q13 from zero in...
News Round-up 17 January 2014 -
SFR structuring innovation unveiled
FeatherStone Investment Group says it has designed a new class of security that will allow qualified...
News Round-up 16 January 2014