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Regulators forced banks to skip dividends during Covid, but let them make up payouts later on. They should now do the same for AT1s or risk that market failing.

The global disclosure recommendations don’t stand a chance against mandated regional regulation.

What African fintechs need is supportive regulation, local capital and the development of talent. Singapore wants to show them the way.

Faster securities settlement raises the spectre of increased FX risk as brokers work through the challenges of achieving simultaneous execution of equity and currency trades.

The ISSB has published the final version of IFRS S1 and IFRS S2, the inaugural sustainability disclosure standards. Now the real work begins – getting companies to start using them.

Better AML controls across traditional financial systems have increased the appeal of international trade as a conduit for fraud.

Japan is the first major market to put a regulatory environment around stablecoins into law.

New entrants into the FX market raise the challenge for the body responsible for rules governing FX derivatives, as it mulls the possibility of future updates to how these products are documented and traded.

Even before this year’s banking failures, the coming of Basel IV was already set to hike bank capital requirements – and so further boost SRT trades.

Bankers are hopeful that they may soon be able to issue new AT1 deals again as the secondary market recovers from the Credit Suisse write-down.

The standardized approach for counterparty credit risk has not yet proved to be the catalyst for greater use of clearing in the FX market that some expected.

If the UK is to become an international crypto hub, it must focus on bringing regulatory certainty to the industry and the banks that back it.

Banks keep up on the record commentary on the rules.

The banking sector appears to be quietly confident that the European Commission will row back on new regulation that, if enacted, could notably increase the cost of some trade-finance instruments.

JPMorgan has cleaned up in a deal that sees the regulators waive their own cap on 10% deposit ownership.

The cost of regulatory capital associated with lending will keep rising after the recent scare over deposit flight and the coming credit downturn. The solution for banks is to reduce risk-weighted assets on their balance sheets by buying protection from credit funds eager to diversify away from leveraged loans.

Proceeds raised in the first three months of this year were 99% lower than the amount raised at the start of 2021.

Rethinking liquidity regulation would be better than a regulatory backlash that imposes an even greater liquidity burden on banks. History offers some lessons on how that might be done.

Turkish airline Pegasus hopes an innovative funding solution tied to sustainability targets will help it increase capacity despite challenging market conditions.

As well as higher capital requirements for regional US banks, the policy response to the Silicon Valley Bank collapse will likely include increasing the Deposit Insurance Fund, which bigger banks will have to pay for.

Recent events call into question most of the core assumptions behind the rules designed to keep banks safe through a liquidity squeeze.

The decision by its Japanese owners to relist ARM, the UK’s great technology success story, in the US instead of London was inevitable after years of decline and the hammer blow of Brexit. Deregulation might further accelerate its collapse, even as the City wins a boost from new technology bringing the vast pool of retail money into equity capital markets.

Droit helps traders decide in milliseconds if deals comply with the ever-changing rules and aims to do the same for wealth managers.

Tokenization is spreading fast. Regulated finance is finally embracing blockchain technology just as most cryptocurrencies stand revealed as overleveraged Ponzi schemes. The institutional herd is moving, but can the blockchains they are shifting onto bear the load?

Banks’ digital-transformation ambitions continue to be checked by difficulties in combining customer data from disparate systems and sharing information across the industry.

EU banks have been lobbying regulators to ease up on capital rules, warning that they will become permanently uncompetitive with US peers. Investors may be set to close that valuation gap for them.

As the EU prepares to vote on its Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation in April, the UK government is hoping to steal a march as a location for cryptoasset businesses.

The recent update to the green taxonomy and implementation of the SFDR RTS have received a mixed reception in parts of the EU.

It seems difficult to convince investors that higher bank profits are sustainable.