September 10, 2012
Here’s the continuation of the EU banking union saga – the document (also leaked, see here) that sets out how the single market and banking union are meant to fit together. A crucial point for the UK and others. As we noted on Friday, the Commissio…
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banking union, capital requirements, commission, EBA, ECB, ESAs, financial regulation, Financial Services |
April 2, 2012
Some of you may recall the AIFM Directive, tabled by the European Commission in 2009. The proposal was aimed at striking down on hedge fund managers, private equity firms, investment trusts and other so-called “alternative investment” funds (i.e. t…
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AIFM directive, barroso, comitology, ESAs, esma, European Commission, financial regulation, hedge funds, private equity |
April 13, 2011
Former Central Banker Alexandre Lamfalussy was yesterday holding court at a debate in Brussels, looking at EU financial regulation, and in particular the creation of the three new EU authorities for ‘micro-prudential’ supervision and their sister organ…
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October 11, 2010
For quite some time, we have tried to highlight how the EU’s new financial supervisors could eventually take on too much power for comfort – not least when viewed from the City of London. The European Securities and Markets Authority, in particular, lo…
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September 22, 2010
Karl Otto Pöhl – former President of the Bundesbank – is quoted in German economic weekly Wirtschaftswoche, making an interesting observation. According to Pöhl, bigger eurozone countries (and most importantly the biggest of them all) should be given…
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bundesbank, ESAs, EU supervisors, financial regulation, germany |
July 15, 2010
An article in yesterday’s Telegraph celebrated the ‘victory’ of George Osborne, who, it claimed, secured an agreement at yesterday’s ECOFIN meeting that one of the new pan-European financial regulators – the European Banking Authority (EBA)
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bail-out, ESAs, EU supervisors, financial regulation, Osborne |
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