All posts tagged "BOE"
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590Capital RegulationUK Regulators Defer Majority of Regulatory Initiatives
Incoming Basel requirements and margin rules will be deferred. The transition away from LIBOR will continue as planned. Work is still underway to prepare for Brexit.
May 11, 2020 -
728FeatureFed Establishes Repo Facility to Ease USD Funding Stress
Foreign central banks can temporarily exchange their US Treasury holdings with the Fed for US dollars, which can then be made available to institutions in their own jurisdictions.
April 1, 2020 -
508Europe
Interim LIBOR Transition Milestones May Be Affected: FCA
While end-2021 remains the firm target date for all firms to meet, interim transition milestones in some of the less prepared segments such as loan markets may be affected.
March 26, 2020 -
278EuropeECB Launches €750b Emergency Asset Purchase Programme
The 'Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme' will include purchases of public and private securities, including non-financial commercial paper and Greek sovereign bonds, until end-2020.
March 20, 2020 -
418EuropeBOE to Increase Haircuts on LIBOR-linked Collateral from October
The market need to see a decisive acceleration in effort in 2020 to ensure risk-free rates are adopted and LIBOR is left behind for good, the BOE's Andrew Hauser said.
February 27, 2020 -
312Fintech / RegtechBIS, Six Central Banks to Jointly Explore CBDC Use Cases
The group will assess CBDC use cases; economic, functional and technical design choices, including cross-border interoperability; and share knowledge on emerging technologies.
January 22, 2020 -
554EuropeUK Regulators Set Key LIBOR Transition Deadlines
Market makers have until 2 March to adopt SONIA as the market convention for issuing sterling interest rate swaps, and until Q3 to end all new issuances of LIBOR-based cash products.
January 17, 2020 -
750EuropeUK Digital Regulatory Reporting Pilot Completes Phase Two
Phase two of the DRR pilot highlighted the importance of agreed data standards. An appropriate solution for producing machine-executable regulation has not yet been identified.
January 11, 2020 -
540Europe
UK Financial Regulators Announce Data Reform Proposals
The FCA has set out a plan to become a 'highly data-driven regulator'. The BOE has published a discussion paper on transforming data collection.
January 9, 2020 -
519Capital Regulation
HKMA Rebuts BOE Claim of Hong Kong Fund Outflows
The BOE said in its biannual Financial Stability Report that $5bn has left Hong Kong since April, but the HKMA says the figure does not represent outflows from the city's banking system.
December 19, 2019
