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Data privacy in the Transatlantic Trade agreement? US-EU ponder the way forward

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • European Union, USA
  • -
  • April 10 2013

The United States and the European Union announced in February their intent to launch negotiations this year on a far-reaching trade and investment

United States and European Union expand sanctions on Iran

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • European Union, Iran, USA
  • -
  • June 8 2011

May 2011 saw multiple, coordinated developments in the multilateral drive to prevent nuclear weapons proliferation by Iran

CFTC Chairman Gensler remarks on OTC derivatives reform efforts in the United States and Europe

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • European Union, USA
  • -
  • September 30 2010

On Tuesday, Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Gensler and European Commissioner Michael Barnier issued ajoint statement in which they reiterated their mutual support for the reforming the OTC derivatives markets through the enactment of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and the September 2010 European Commission proposal for a Regulation on OTC derivatives, central counterparties and trade repositories

Standard & Poor’s identifies likely European targets and potential U.S. acquirers

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • European Union, USA
  • -
  • July 9 2010

In recent weeks, Standard & Poor's Market, Credit, and Risk Strategies (MCRS) group released its findings regarding the likelihood of U.S. companies engaging in mergers and acquisitions in Europe while also identifying possible targets

House subcommittees hold joint hearing on role of IMF and Federal Reserve in stabilizing Europe

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • European Union, Global, USA
  • -
  • May 21 2010

Yesterday, the House Financial Services Committee's Subcommittee on International Monetary Policy and Trade and Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology held a joint hearing entitled "The Role of the International Monetary Fund and Federal Reserve in Stabilizing Europe."

European Union announces comprehensive package of measures to preserve financial stability; ECB to undertake purchases of Euro area debt; Federal Reserve re-establishes US dollar swap facilities

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • European Union, USA
  • -
  • May 10 2010

Yesterday, in the "wake of the crisis" in Greece, the Economic and Financial Affairs (ECOFIN) Council and member states adopted a "comprehensive package of measures to preserve financial stability in Europe."

CFTC's Gary Gensler takes a stand on credit derivatives in Europe

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • European Union, USA
  • -
  • March 16 2010

Today, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Gary Gensler made a statement before the European Parliament's Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee in Brussels, Belgium

European Parliament contemplates global financial institution tax

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • European Union, USA
  • -
  • February 23 2010

Today, the European Parliament Economic Affairs Committee issued a press release stating that "a globally implemented tax to discourage excessive risk-taking by financial institutions and to ensure the industry pays for the damage caused by the financial crisis should be considered."

A comparison of transatlantic responses to the financial crisis from the European Central Bank's perspective

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • European Union, USA
  • -
  • September 11 2009

Today, in a speech before a conference organized by Banca d’Italia, Bruegel and the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Rome, Mr. Lorenzo Bini Smaghi, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank (ECB) delivered a speech entitled “An ocean apart? Comparing transatlantic responses to the financial crisis.”

Disagreement on the impact of REACH in the United States

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • European Union, USA
  • -
  • October 8 2008

In September 2008, EDF issued a report entitled “Across the Pond, Assessing REACH’s First Big Impact on U.S. Companies and Chemicals” (“EDF Report”), in which EDF purports to demonstrate that REACH will have significant impacts on companies manufacturing, importing, exporting, or using chemicals in, to, or from the United States

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