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Banks in the European Union may need to comply with an international liquidity rule before competitors in other parts of the globe as part of a deal on how the bloc should implement Basel banking standards.
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The U.K. bankers and regulators charged with reviewing Libor in the wake of regulatory probes are resisting calls to overhaul the rate because structural changes risk invalidating trillions of dollars of contracts.
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Banks should be forced to reveal pay policies that may encourage irresponsible risk taking, global regulators said in rules aimed at pressuring lenders to curb compensation and take back bonuses if performance is poor.
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The way banks sell structured products similar to those at the center of the U.S. case against Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is being reviewed by the U.K. financial regulator, according to lawyers who advise the lenders.
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Naked short sales of shares and government bonds may be limited by European Union proposals that say the practices cause a “disorderly market and possible systemic risks.”
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Most large U.S. banks that weathered the financial crisis by strengthening the level and quality of their capital should be able to pass future stress tests, said a researcher at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
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The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision is considering extra capital requirements of as much as 3.5 percentage points that the largest banks may face if they grow bigger, according to two people familiar with the talks.
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Owners of long-term unsecured debt in a collapsing bank would be first in line to take losses under draft plans from the European Union to protect taxpayers’ money from future bailouts.
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The chains of loaned securities being pledged and re-pledged in the so-called wholesale money markets are growing shorter, as collateral piles up at central banks where it can’t generate additional borrowing.
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In the five months after the U.S. published results of its 2009 bank stress tests, the Standard & Poor’s 500 Financials Index rose 25 percent. Five months after the European Union released its version, the Bloomberg Europe Banks and Financial Services Index is down 4 percent.
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