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European Commission welcomes new US proposals allowing easier deregistration from capital markets

  • Norton Rose LLP
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  • European Union, USA
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  • February 23 2007

The European Commission has sent a letter to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) which comments on the SEC's proposed new rules that would help non-US companies listed on US capital markets to deregister from those markets at a time of their choosing, once certain criteria have been fulfilled

Regulators highlight best risk management practices during recent market turmoil

  • Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
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  • European Union, USA
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  • May 9 2008

A group of U.S. and European securities and banking regulators released a report in March 2008 entitled Observations on Risk Management Practices during the Recent Market Turbulence, detailing risk management practices that appeared to assist certain securities and banking firms to weather the recent market turmoil caused by the credit crisis better than others

International regulatory update

  • Clifford Chance LLP
  • -
  • Australia, European Union, Germany, Netherlands, Singapore, Switzerland, United Kingdom, USA
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  • April 4 2011

The Ministry of Justice has published its final guidance under section 9 of the Bribery Act 2010 about procedures that relevant commercial organisations can put in place to prevent persons associated with them from bribing

Technical advice to the European Commission on the equivalence of supervisory arrangements in Switzerland and the United States with regard to bankinginvestment groups and financial conglomerates

  • Norton Rose LLP
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  • European Union, Switzerland, USA
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  • March 3 2008

The Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) and the Committee of European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Supervisors (CEIOPS) have published a joint response of CEBS and the Interim Working Committee on financial conglomerates

EU-US Coalition on Financial Regulation - response to CESR call for evidence on mutual recognition of non-EU jurisdictions

  • Norton Rose LLP
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  • European Union, USA
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  • September 24 2009

The EU-US Coalition on Financial Regulation (the Coalition) is an industry-led initiative created in 2005 to push for mutual regulatory recognition between EU member states and the US, as well as targeted rule convergence

Commission and CESR welcome IASB fair value guidance

  • Dentons
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  • European Union, USA
  • -
  • November 7 2008

The Commission is pleased with IASB’s guidance on fair value measurement in inactive markets

Fourth update: new short-selling restrictions in the United States and recommendations for a pan-European short-selling disclosure regime

  • Latham & Watkins LLP
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  • European Union, USA
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  • March 22 2010

Recent releases by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) and the Committee of European Securities Regulators (the CESR) highlight continuing regulatory activity relating to short selling in the United States and the European Union

Building a new financial framework together

  • Norton Rose LLP
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  • European Union, USA
  • -
  • May 28 2010

On 11 May 2010, the European Commission published a speech given by Michel Barnier (EU Commissioner for the Internal Market and Services) entitled Building a new financial framework together

U.S. court limits the extraterritorial application of U.S.securities laws

  • Torys LLP
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  • European Union, USA
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  • March 30 2010

On March 26, 2010, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York firmly rejected an attempt by U.S. investors to bring a securities class action lawsuit alleging a Rule 10b-5 violation of the U.S. securities laws against a Dutch public company whose shares were listed only on European exchanges and whose investor disclosures were governed only by the laws of the European Union and its member states

CESR technical advice on the equivalence between the US regulatory and supervisory framework and the EU regulatory regime for CRAs

  • Norton Rose LLP
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  • European Union, USA
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  • May 31 2010

The Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) has published its technical advice to the European Commission on the equivalence between the US regulatory and supervisory framework and the EU regulatory regime for credit rating agencies (CRAs