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The following is a roundup of selected current regulatory proposals, notices and directives collected from official bulletins and other sources which are deemed reliable. The chart is updated each issue. [...]

Regulatory Alert The following is a roundup of selected current regulatory proposals, notices and directives collected from official bulletins and other sources which are deemed reliable. The chart is updated [...]

U.K. Financial Services Authority Chairman Callum McCarthy intends to lead a lobbying effort aimed at getting better cost-benefit analysis on pan-European rulemaking. The impetus is what McCarthy called the European [...]

The following is a roundup of selected current regulatory proposals, notices and directives collected from official bulletins and other sources which are deemed reliable. The chart is updated each issue. [...]

Regulatory Alert The following is a roundup of selected current regulatory proposals, notices and directives collected from official bulletins and other sources which are deemed reliable. The chart is updated [...]

Regulatory Alert The following is a roundup of selected current regulatory proposals, notices and directives collected from official bulletins and other sources which are deemed reliable. The chart is updated [...]

Regulatory Alert The following is a roundup of selected current regulatory proposals, notices and directives collected from official bulletins and other sources which are deemed reliable. The chart is updated [...]

Regulatory Alert The following is a roundup of selected current regulatory proposals, notices and directives collected from official bulletins and other sources which are deemed reliable. The chart is updated [...]

The following is a roundup of selected current regulatory proposals, notices and directives collected from official bulletins and other sources which are deemed reliable. The chart is updated each issue. [...]

The following is a roundup of selected current regulatory proposals, notices and directives collected from official bulletins and other sources which are deemed reliable. The chart is updated each issue. [...]

The European Commission is expected to tread lightly when it releases its blueprint on how it will isolate risky trading by big banks, with any new rules likely to take [...]

Banks, insurance firms and agents face tougher and more expensive standards for informing customers about financial products they intend to buy, the European Commission said. In a consultation paper released [...]

Michel Barnier, member of the European Commission, and Timothy Geithner, U.S. Treasury Secretary, agreed on a December 2011 date to implement the new Basel III trading book rules. 'They reaffirmed [...]

The European Commission said it will use its plans to reform the Market in Financial Instruments Directive to rein in speculation in commodities, in particular by reinforcing controls and extending [...]

Trade repositories could be fined and have their licenses revoked by European regulators. Trade repositories could be fined and have their licenses revoked by European regulators. A European Commission draft [...]

The German government failed to persuade other nations to follow its prohibition on naked short selling and speculation on European government bonds. A Europe-wide ban on the practices is 'doubtful,' [...]

European politicians are beginning to push back against U.S. efforts to drive global cooperation on over-the-counter derivatives regulation. At a joint conference between the European Central Bank and European Commission [...]

The European Forum of Securities Associations, a coalition of trade groups, has hit out at plans by the European Commission to categorize any client as retail when dealing with complex [...]

The European Forum of Securities Associations, a coalition of trade groups, has hit out at plans by the European Commission to categorize any client as retail when dealing with complex [...]

Timothy Geithner, the U.S. Treasury secretary, warned the European Commission in a letter this month that its plans to regulate the hedge fund and private equity industries may cause a [...]

The European Commission has kicked off a consultation on far-reaching changes to the Capital Requirements Directive that include tougher standards on capital and liquidity and measures to reign in leverage. [...]

The European Commission wants industry professionals to form a panel on banking insolvency law to help in its consultation, launched last October, on creating an EU-wide banking crisis management regime. [...]

The European Commission will consult the market this year on whether bond underwriting practices need to be regulated, according to an EC official. The practices are coming under scrutiny now [...]

A European Commission review of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, which is expected to take place in early 2010, could see the landmark legislation extended into new areas, including [...]

The U.K. House of Lords EU Select Committee has criticized the European Commission's planned Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive for not taking account of U.S. rules. The U.K. House of [...]

The European Commission has referred Belgium, Ireland, Greece and Luxembourg to the European Court of Justice for failing to fully implement an accounting directive by the agreed deadline. The European [...]

The Committee of European Banking Supervisors will conduct a quantitative impact study on the European Commission's proposed regulatory reforms. Arnold Vossen The Committee of European Banking Supervisors will conduct a [...]

The European Commission is not planning to limit the stakes dealers can hold in clearing houses, according to CR sister publication Derivatives Week. The European Commission is not planning to [...]

A number of industry professionals are weighing the work that will flow from complying with the European Commission's proposed Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive, which would subject hedge funds and [...]

The European Commission's plans to create a risk council and supervisory bodies raise questions over funding, industry officials warned. The European Commission's plans to create a risk council and supervisory [...]

The European Commission and the European Securities Council will clarify how the best execution provisions of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive will affect dealer markets. The European Commission and [...]

Dan Waters, director of retail policy at the U.K. Financial Services Authority, hailed what he described as a small number of super-equivalent notifications the FSA made to the European Commission [...]

The U.K. Professional Oversight Board is urging U.K. stakeholders to respond to the European Commission's consultation on the Statutory Audit Directive. The U.K. Professional Oversight Board is urging U.K. stakeholders [...]

Byline: Russell Parsons & Mark Malyszko The European Commission and the U.S. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board are to develop a roadmap for cooperation on standards specific to the auditing [...]

Help may soon be at hand for EU-based companies suffering from so-called 'Hotel California' syndrome in the U.S., according to its commissioner for internal markets and services, Charlie McCreevy. Charlie [...]

The European Commission has been told by industry there is no need to apply Markets in Financial Instruments Directive transparency provisions to non-equities like bonds and derivatives. The European Commission [...]

A European parliamentary committee has voted to require firms to report large transactions faster. The committee has unexpectedly decided a requirement should be included in the Markets in Financial Instruments [...]

The Markets in Financial Instruments Directive is a core part of the European Union's Financial Services Action Plan and part of the European Commission's attempt to promote the use of [...]

The European Commission may publish as early as today long-awaited detailed implementation measures for its Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID). The new measures are known as Level II and [...]

The European Commission is considering requiring firms to weigh their own commission charges as a factor in best execution. Existing rules in most EU countries, including the U.K., exclude commission [...]

Firms in Europe face a host of new suitability reviews for derivatives sold to retail customers under pending sales and advice proposals. While some EU-member countries require these checks, lawyers [...]

A U.K. industry group has proposed a plan to improve the European Commission's rule making process. The proposal is a response to a wide-ranging Commission consultation seeking suggestions that would [...]

A U.K. investment management industry group is calling on the European Commission not to introduce detailed rules on shareholder voting rights. In a letter to the Commission the Investment Management [...]

U.K. banking groups have asked a European regulatory committee to justify why certain proposed financial reporting rules, which go beyond international standards, are necessary. The proposals from the Committee of [...]

Industry and European Commission officials warned securities firms they should pay close attention to the Commission's shareholder voting rights debate because any new rules could impose compliance and cost burdens. [...]

Corporate officers say European regulators should consider a variety of reforms to prompt better shareholder vote participation, from allowing more time to making rules more uniform. Increasing cross-border investment means [...]

The European Commission is reviewing whether pan-European rules are needed to strengthen governance standards at investment management firms. The Commission will publish a consultation paper next month, intended to spark [...]

A single pan-European regulator that would replace member countries' regulators would face so many problems it would be almost impossible to create, said John Tiner, U.K. Financial Services Authority chief [...]

The Committee of European Securities Regulators is considering proposing pan-European rules on soft commission disclosure, a move that could trip up countries close to finalizing their own standards. The proposals [...]

An investigation into alleged money laundering at a law firm in Spain could harm EU lawyers' lobbying efforts to change proposed European AML rules, industry group officials said. The rules, [...]