20/11/2017 (Agence Europe) – On Monday 20 November, the Council of the EU adopted without discussion two inter-institutional agreements reached in May of this year (see EUROPE 11799) setting out new securitisation rules. The future regulation provides for criteria to label securitised products as Simple, Transparent and Standardised (STS). In particular, the institutions agreed on a preferential treatment of capital for so-called STS securitisations and a new hierarchy for the risk...