September 7, 2012
That ECB, it’s so hot right now. While everyone is watching and reacting to the ECB announcement from yesterday, the Commission’s highly anticipated proposal for an EU Banking Union, due to be released on 12 September, has leaked (courtesy of Ital…
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January 5, 2011
The new year sees the launch of the EU’s new financial supervisors: the European Banking Authority, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority and the European Securities and Markets Authority. If you haven’t already done so, have a l…
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bail-out, bubbles, EBA, ECB, ESRB, EU supervisors, euro, ireland |
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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