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Regulators may ease rules on asset-backed debt

Global regulators may ease restrictions on asset-backed or pooled-debt in a policy shift that banks and European policymakers say is needed if financial markets are to play a bigger role in funding economic growth, two financial industry sources have said.
Business • 22 Jul 15

ECB to start purchases of ABS next month

The European Central Bank has said it will start its purchases of asset-backed securities in November in a bid to kick-start credit in the euro area.
Business • 30 Oct 14

Irish banks may sell tracker mortgages to ECB

Irish banks could sell some of the €50 billion in tracker mortgages on their books to the European Central Bank, but it looks like the mortgages would need to be guaranteed by the Government.
Business • 03 Oct 14

ECB to start purchases programmes this year

The European Central Bank has laid out plans to buy rebundled packets of debt within weeks to shore up the flagging euro zone economy and its president said the bank would do more if needed.
Business • 02 Oct 14

ECB cuts euro zone rates in surprise move

The ECB will start buying securitised loans and covered bonds next month to help unblock lending in the euro zone, ECB President Mario Draghi has said.
Business • 05 Sep 14

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