Standard Weekly Newsletter
07 November 2019
Germany’s finance minister gives ground on banking union plan, Christine Lagarde becomes new ECB President, Tories hold 16-point lead over Labour, Brussels poised to play hard ball in Brexit trade talks, Trump warns PM Brexit deal ‘precludes’ US-UK trade agreement and more.
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Articles 31 October 2019 - 7 November 2019
Banking Union
ECB: Working group on euro risk-free rates issues recommendations to address accounting impact of euro risk-free rates transition : The report highlights IFRS and IAS accounting consequences of the benchmark rate transition. The recommendations of the working group focus on hedge accounting. View Article
New President of the European Central Bank : Christine Lagarde, former Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, has taken up her duties as President of the European Central Bank (ECB). View Article
ECB: Working group on euro risk-free rates issues high level recommendations for fallback provisions in contracts referencing EURIBOR : The private sector working group on euro risk-free rates has published a set of recommendations for fallback provisions in contracts for cash products and derivative transactions referencing EURIBOR. These recommendations support compliance with the EU Benchmarks Regulation (BMR) and enhance legal and commercial certainty. View Article
Financial Times: Germany’s Scholz gives ground on eurozone banking union plan : Germany’s finance minister has offered hope of a breakthrough in plans to create a full eurozone banking union by ending Berlin’s opposition to a common scheme to protect savers’ deposits. View Article
EBA publishes Opinion proposing to further strengthen depositor protection in the EU : The Opinion focuses on the payouts by deposit guarantee schemes (DGSs) and proposes a number of changes to the EU legal framework, aimed at strengthening depositor protection, improving depositor information, enhancing financial stability and reinforcing operational effectiveness of DGSs. View Article
Capital Markets Union
Financial Times: Can the EU’s failed Capital Markets Union be revived? : Patrick Jenkins describes how some of the EU’s key economies have been trying to shock the CMU project back to life. View Article
ESMA report sees decrease in prospectus activity for 2018 : In its annual report on prospectus activity, ESMA reports that in 2018 the number of prospectus approvals across the EEA decreased by almost 5% compared to 2017, which follows a decade-long trend observed since the start of the financial crisis. View Article
Opening Statement by ESMA Chair Steven Maijoor at ECON Hearing : ESMA Chair Steven Maijoor gave MEPs practical examples from the last 12 months of how the supervisor aims to support the sustainable growth of the EU’s capital markets while ensuring stability and investor protection. View Article
Friends' Standard Services
156th Brussels for Breakfast – CPD Notes : Organised by the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation (CSFI), hosted by CISI and with co-presenters Sir David Liddington MP, John Rega (Politico) and Helen Thomas (BlondeMoney). View Article
Economic Policies Impacting EU Finance
Financial Times: Brexit is a warning to Germany’s ECB-bashers : Christine Lagarde’s first official outing as ECB president was to visit Berlin to honour former German finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble, which underlines her biggest immediate challenge: to salvage and rebuild the fraying acceptance of ECB policies, above all in Germany. View Article
Brexit
BBC: General election 2019: Nigel Farage wants election 'alliance' with Tories : Nigel Farage says there needs to be "some kind of alliance" between the Tories and the Brexit Party for the upcoming election. View Article
John Bercow: Brexit is UK's biggest mistake since second world war : Days after bowing out as Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow has described Brexit as the biggest mistake Britain has made since the second world war. View Article
EurActiv: Barnier sees difficult talks on post-Brexit trade deal : The European Union’s Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier said that negotiations on a future trading relationship with Britain would be “difficult and demanding,” as the bloc “will not tolerate unfair competitive advantage”. View Article
POLITICO: Trump: Brexit deal ‘precludes’ US-UK trade agreement : Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal would prevent the UK from striking a trade agreement with the US, Donald Trump said. View Article
City AM: No-deal Brexit remains biggest risk to European growth, IMF warns : A no-deal Brexit remains the biggest threat to the economies of Europe, the International Monetary Fund has warned, and could further damage already very weak growth. View Article
UK in a Changing Europe: Britain has not yet faced its hard choices : Critics counter that increasing friction with the European Union has high costs. No other partner comes close to matching the scale of UK trade with the EU. Even with fast growth, the critics say, new deals cannot compensate for weakening trade with the EU. View Article
The Guardian: Tories hold 16-point lead over Labour, according to poll : The Conservatives hold a 16-point lead over Labour ahead of the 12 December general election, according to the latest Opinium/Observer poll. View Article
EBF: Brexit: financial services are better prepared : European financial service firms are more prepared than before to handle a possible no-deal Brexit scenario. According to an internal consultation among members of the European Banking Federation, many financial service firms have continued to step up their contingency planning in recent months. View Article
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"Brexit is the biggest foreign policy mistake in the post-war period" John Bercow gives his "honest view" on Brexit after standing down as Commons Speaker bbc.in/2ClNapi
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If the U.K. leaves the EU in January without an orderly withdrawal agreement, it’s economic output would be 3.5% lower in two years, according to the IMF bloom.bg/2pQfFcf
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#EYITEM has cut its UK GDP growth forecast to 1.0% for 2020, down from the 1.5% predicted three months ago. Read more in the new Autumn Forecast, available here: spr.ly/60141Kqao spr.ly/60131KqaW
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While some polls have the Conservatives at 40%, they have sunk as low as 32% in others. Labour have ranged from 22% to 29% bloom.bg/2WGreP7
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