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Next Generation EU Borrowing: a first assessment
The Next Generation EU programme is radically changing the way the EU finances itself and interacts with financial markets, due to its ambitious and groundbreaking new public debt programme. The European Commission has thus adopted a totally new, diversified borrowing strategy, similar to that of other major issuers, to raise money safely, reliably and in a cost-effective manner. EU debt therefore has to be attractive to financial markets and maintain a strong credit rating.
Covered bonds – Issue and supervision, exposures
Covered bonds are debt securities issued by credit institutions and secured by a pool of mortgage loans or credit towards the public sector. They are characterised further by the double protection offered to bondholders, the segregation of assets in their cover pool, over-collateralisation, and their strict supervisory frameworks. Currently, their issuance is concentrated in five Member States. National regulatory regimes vary widely in terms of supervision and composition of the cover pool. Lastly ...
Obbligazioni garantite: emissione, vigilanza ed esposizioni
La Commissione ha proposto una direttiva e un regolamento per creare un quadro unificato per le obbligazioni garantite. Il voto del Parlamento sui testi concordati in sede di negoziati interistituzionali è previsto nel mese di aprile.
Enabling SMEs' access to capital markets
Making it easier for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to access financing through public markets lies at the heart of the capital markets union – the plan to mobilise capital in Europe. Among the various reasons for going ahead with this union is the fact that existing requirements and listing costs in both regulated and multilateral trading venues continue to be disproportionate to the size and level of sophistication of SMEs. To further respond to this situation, the Commission has proposed ...
A framework for EU covered bonds
The Commission proposed a legislative framework for covered bonds. The supporting impact assessment (IA) provided a coherent problem analysis and the corresponding set of objectives. The impacts analysis focused mainly on the costs and benefits of enhancing the Capital Markets Union potential. However, the IA did not assess the options in terms of their proportionality and did not check the subsidiarity or proportionality of the regulatory options.
Requisiti prudenziali per gli enti creditizi e le imprese di investimento
Il nuovo quadro per le cartolarizzazioni semplici, trasparenti e standardizzate (STS) si ripercuote sul quadro prudenziale complessivo per gli enti creditizi e le imprese di investimento. La Commissione ha proposto di conseguenza di modificare il vigente regolamento sui requisiti patrimoniali (CRR) e di adeguare i profili di mantenimento del rischio al fine di riflettere adeguatamente le caratteristiche specifiche delle cartolarizzazioni STS. Il Parlamento si appresta a votare la proposta durante ...
Norme comuni sulla cartolarizzazione e quadro europeo per cartolarizzazioni STS
Con il termine "cartolarizzazione" si intende il processo di incorporazione e conversione di crediti in titoli che possono poi essere venduti agli investitori. Nell'ambito del suo impegno per la creazione di un'Unione dei mercati dei capitali, la Commissione ha proposto un regolamento che stabilisce norme comuni sulla cartolarizzazione e offre un quadro per cartolarizzazioni semplici, trasparenti e standardizzate (STS). Il Parlamento dovrà procedere alla votazione sulla proposta nella plenaria di ...
Prospectuses for investors
On 30 November 2015, the European Commission published a proposal for a regulation on prospectuses (legal documents that provide details about an investment offer in an easily analysable format) to replace Directive 2003/71/EC, as amended by Directives 2008/11/EC, 2010/73/EU and 2010/78/EU. The aims of the regulation are to contribute to further financial market integration and to improve investor protection in the European Union. The proposal broadens the scope of the legislation and introduces ...
Should the Marketing of Subordinated Debt Be Restricted/Different in One Way or the Other? What to Do in the Case of Mis-Selling?
Bail-in can potentially lead to enhanced market discipline and lower use of public finances only if its application is credible and stringent. This requires that the holders of bail-in able debt have the capacity of absorbing losses but also that the application of bail-in does is consistent with financial stability. Sophisticated investors have typically a larger financial capacity than unsophisticated investors but they are also more reactive to information and/or imposition of losses and are therefore ...
What to Do with Profits when Banks Are Undercapitalized: Maximum Distributable Amount, CoCo Bonds and Volatile Markets
This note gives an overview of the recent discussions relating to the clarification of the methodology for calculating the Maximum distributable Amount in banking supervision and the volatility on the market for banks contingent convertible bonds ("CoCo bonds").