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When it rains, it pours – EU legal opinion puts UK on backfoot over revamped Liikanen rules

June 17, 2014

It’s not shaping up to be a great month for the UK government with respect to the EU – a pretty poor showing at the European elections, a looming defeat over the Spitzenkandidaten process and now, just to top it off, a troublesome legal opinion fro…

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banking regulation, banking sector, legal opinions, legal service, Liikanen report, structural reform

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The long lost Liikanen report returns – but it looks pretty different

January 29, 2014

Has the Liikanen report become the Barnier plan?Update 30/01/14 11:45:Some eagle eyed HM Treasury officials have flagged up that the recitals of the proposal (the preamble points before the articles of the regulation) do allow for the derogation to app…

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banking regulation, banking sector, banking supervision, Liikanen report, Michel Barnier, structural reform, Vickers, Volcker

As discussions stall, leaked docs show divergent plans for bank bail-in and resolution from EU institutions

November 18, 2013

The Times’ Juliet Samuel has an interesting story today looking at the progress on bank bail-in rules and resolution funds at the EU level (via some leaked docs relating to the EU’s Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive). Despite another round of me…

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bail-in, banking regulation, banking union, brrd, European Commission, European Council, european parliament, resolution, single resolution mechanism, srm

The EU wades into the murky world of shadow banking

September 4, 2013

The European Commission this morning unveiled its initial proposals to regulate ‘shadow banking’ and money market funds (MMFs) – the press release is here and the FAQs are here and here.We covered this issue back in May when we exclusively releas…

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AIFM directive, banking regulation, banking supervision, CRD4, finance, financial markets, financial regulation, Financial Services, financial supervision, mmf, money market funds, shadow banking, UK-EU relations

Bank bail-in plans finally agreed, but its only a small step towards banking union

June 27, 2013

Despite some sizeable differences, EU finance ministers finally managed to reach an agreement on the bank bail-in plans last night (after only 25 hours of talks in the past few days). As always with this type of EU deals, it is a compromise and often a…

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bail-in, banking regulation, banking sector, banking supervision, banking union, brrd, ecofin, eurozone. bail-out, recovery, resolution

Another blow in the bank bonus debate – but there’s something far more fundamental at work here

May 22, 2013

Yesterday saw the opening salvo of what is sure to become a heated debate over the new ‘technical standards’ for the EU’s banker bonus rules. Why is this so important? Well, these rules will essentially determine how far reaching the EU’s already…

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bank bonus, bank of england, banker bonus, banking regulation, banking sector, EBA, ECB, financial regulation, Financial Services, financial supervision, transparency, UK-EU relations

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