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EU Lowers Insurers’ Capital Requirements to Spur Infrastructure Investments

The European Union lowered capital requirements on insurance companies to spur investment in long-term infrastructure projects as policy makers struggle to revive the bloc’s flagging economy. Risk charges for insurers’ unlisted equity shares in projects such as energy pipelines, transport …

EU Supervisors Face ‘Binding Mediation’ on Simple ABS Disagreements

National authorities in the European Union will have to submit to binding arbitration if they can’t decide whether to apply the bloc’s new rules on simple securitizations to a transaction, a European Commission document shows. In the undated draft regulation …

EU Seeking to Cut Minimum Risk Weighting on Simple Securitizations

The European Commission is seeking to cut the minimum risk weight on securitizations that qualify as simple and transparent to 10 percent to help jump-start the bloc’s capital markets. The 5 percentage-point reduction in the risk weighting for securities backed …