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European Banking Authority publishes results of the Basel III monitoring exercise as of 31 December 2013
The EBA published its sixth report of the Basel III monitoring exercise on the European banking system. This exercise allows the gathering of aggregate results on capital, liquidity (liquidity coverage ratio (LCR) and net stable funding ratio (NSFR)) and leverage ratios for banks in the EU.
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City AM: Europe’s banks hit their capital buffer targets
Europe's biggest banks were closing in on their capital targets at the end of last year, global regulators at the Basel Committee said
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Reuters: EU bank tests may miss trillion dollar risk – study
Some European banks being checked by regulators for signs of capital weakness may be sitting on up to a trillion dollars of potentially unsafe assets because their holdings of sovereign bonds are not being fully risk assessed, a new study has found.
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Reuters: France and Germany oppose guarantees for ECB debt-buy plan: document
France and Germany oppose granting government guarantees to support the market for repackaged debt, a document seen by Reuters shows, dealing a set-back to the European Central Bank's plans to rejuvenate it.
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Derivatives Risk Solutions: Is Brussels setting the table for a move away from LIBOR?
The Council has published its first compromise proposal for regulation on benchmarks. Although some changes result in a lighter bite for certain benchmark administrators, Brussels is sharpening the knives with regards to critical benchmarks such as LIBOR, argues DRS.
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BIS: Sabine Lautenschläger of ECB speech on Banking supervision
Lautenschläger ranged widely over the topic. 'It is very important - particularly in times of crisis - to make a clear distinction between sound banks that are solvent but suffering from liquidity shortages and insolvent banks that will not be able to survive in the long run.'
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Risk.net: New UK rules clear the way for more prosecutions
New management oversight rules for UK banks could make prosecuting managers far easier for supervision failures and will shift the onus onto managers to show they took proper precautions – a dramatic shift from the state of play at present, lawyers say.
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EBF response to two EBA consulation on Operational Risk and guidelines on materiality, proprietary and confidentiality.
The EBF has responded to two EBA consultations. It strongly chllenges the EBA's legal mandate in some areas.
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