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Towards a European contract law for consumers and businesses: a Trojan horse?

  • Dechert LLP
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • August 19 2010

English law remains one of the United Kingdom's leading invisible exports in the professional services sector

Bank levies and financial taxes

  • Dechert LLP
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  • European Union
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  • December 1 2010

In June 2010 the European Council agreed that Member States should introduce a system of levies and taxes on financial institutions to ensure fair burden-sharing and to set incentives to contain systemic risk

CRD 4: European Commission consultation on countercyclical buffers

  • Dechert LLP
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • November 1 2010

The Commission has now launched a consultation on how the countercyclical buffers proposed in the Basel Committee consultation of July 2010 might be applied in the EU

The European Commission’s green paper on auditors

  • Dechert LLP
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  • European Union
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  • November 1 2010

The European Commission has been concerned by what it sees as the potential weaknesses of the audit system highlighted by the financial crisis

The MiFID review: CESR’s technical advice on client categorisation

  • Dechert LLP
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • November 1 2010

On 13 October 2010, CESR published its advice on client categorisation in the context of the European Commission's review of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (200439EC) ("MiFID"

MiFID: CESR’s technical advice regarding OTC derivatives

  • Dechert LLP
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • November 1 2010

This technical advice issued in mid-October 2010 covers three main workstreams: standardisation and organised platform trading of OTC derivatives; post-trade transparency standards; client categorisation; and the remaining responses by CESR to the Commission's request for additional information in relation to the review of MiFID presented in March 2010

Basel III and the CRD 4

  • Dechert LLP
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  • European Union
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  • November 1 2010

Following the Basel Committee's publication of its new prudential framework for capital and liquidity (Basel III), the European Commission is now to propose amendments to the Capital Requirements Directive ("CRD 4") to implement the changes in EU law

The proposed Securities Law Directive

  • Dechert LLP
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • November 1 2010

The European Commission is due to launch a second public consultation to feed into a planned Securities Law Directive (the "SLD"

CESR’s MiFID review feedback statement on client categorisation

  • Dechert LLP
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • November 1 2010

On 22 October 2010, CESR also published a Feedback statement on its consultation on client categorisation relating to the European Commission's review of MiFID

Crisis management: European Commission consultation

  • Dechert LLP
  • -
  • European Union
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  • November 1 2010

The de Larosière report concluded that a lack of consistent crisis management and resolution tools across the Single Market places Europe at a disadvantage vis-à-vis the United States and recommended that these issues should be addressed by the adoption at EU level of adequate measures