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  • Post-crisis regulations continue to target repos. Given their vital role in wholesale markets, other bank businesses will be hit. ICMA's Andy Hill explains why
  • A recently-agreed sanctions deal could reconnect the Middle East’s second biggest economy with the global financial system. But it needs private sector buy-in
  • European banks need liquidity, and ABS – with a few tweaks – can provide it. Here’s how to revive the ailing market
  • Should the US government step in to regulate share buybacks? For the business community and investors, it may be a step too far. But with US elections focussing on middle class needs and wage disparities, promises to govern when companies can – and can't – engage in share repurchases might come front and centre.
  • The second connection between Hong Kong and China's equity markets is ready internally, Hong Kong Exchanges (HKEx) CEO Charles Li has confirmed. But it's still in the regulatory pipeline.
  • The European Commission’s Jonathan Faull has been the driving force behind its Capital Markets Union. Here he discusses the initiative, how to fix securitisation and why regulatory silos aren’t a European problem
  • Regulators of developed markets have closely scrutinised derivatives since the 2008 global financial crisis, introducing extraterritorial regulations such as the Dodd-Frank Act and European Market Infrastructure Regulation. Emerging markets, particularly those in Asia, are starting to look at derivatives differently – as a tool that manages, rather than creates, financial risk.
  • On July 22, Martin Wheatley, outgoing chief of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), declared that conduct was at the top of UK bank agendas. Over the following weeks, it's become increasingly clear that Wheatley's statement rings true for a much broader range of market participants.
  • Africa-focussed investors must not put consumer sectors before infrastructure
  • Brown Rudnick's Alex Lipman on why the growing use of adminitrative law judges in enforcement proceedings has defendants and their counsel asking whether it’s possible to get a fair hearing