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Ten months after its unusual regional retreat in equity capital markets and M&A, HSBC has had a good year in debt capital markets, suggesting its new strategy can work
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BBVA said on Monday that it had reached an agreement to sell its US subsidiary to PNC Financial Services. The Spanish bank’s bonds rallied sharply on the news of the deal, which will increase its main capital ratios by as much as 300bp. -
KISS: the new acronym touted by Sam Woods, chief executive of the Prudential Regulation Authority, in a speech given at Mansion House on Thursday, proposes that regulatory requirements should “keep it strong and simple” after Brexit.
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Regulatory debt ratios are declining at some euro area financial institutions as a result of their participation in the European Central Bank’s targeted longer-term refinancing operations (TLTROs) this year.
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The UK this week abandoned hope of winning a mutual deal on financial regulation equivalence with the EU, and did what many had expected: unilaterally granted European firms access to the UK’s market without gaining matching rights for UK firms. But although this looked like surrender, lawyers believe the UK might have the upper hand.
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Commerzbank has endured a tough year but, with a new strategy on the way, loan impairments lower than at many peers, and executives seeing an uptick in its trade finance business, the worst may be behind it.
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US banks have fared well in the Financial Stability Board’s latest assessment of firms' systemic importance, with JP Morgan no longer standing out as the riskiest bank in the world.
