StanChart and Baoxin Group; HSBC and Saint-Gobain; and Citi and Roche have announced new cash programmes relating to pooling and netting in the Shanghai free trade zone following central bank clarifications.
Siemens, Alibaba, Huawei and ZTE are all in the second batch of SAFE’s pilot for cross-border FX cash sweeping, netting and centralised payments transactions, CT has learnt.
Basel regulators have agreed to delay bank liquidity buffer regulations for another four years, which is later than most had expected. Full implementation will be required by 2019.
Europe will delay the Basel III deadline for bank capital requirements for six months at least. Originally set to go live in January 2013, Europe now follows the US in postponing the regulations.