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Crisis or no crisis Lessons for financial markets and regulators

  • Norton Rose LLP
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  • European Union
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  • February 18 2008

The European Commission has published a speech by Charlie McCreevy (European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services), which is entitled Crisis or no crisis - Lessons for financial markets and regulation

European Commission adopts measures to enhance and strengthen supervisory committees and standard-setting bodies for accounting and auditing

  • Alston & Bird LLP
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  • European Union
  • -
  • January 26 2009

Today the European Commission (EC) announced its adoption of several proposals intended to enhance and strengthen the present framework for EU supervisory committees in the following industries: securities, banking and insurance

New EU guidelines on acquisitions and increases in financial holdings in regulated entities

  • A&L Goodbody
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
  • -
  • December 31 2008

On 18 December 2008, the Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS), CEIOPS and the Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) published their guidelines for the prudential assessment of acquisitions and increases in financial holdings as required by Directive 200744EC on the procedural rules and evaluation criteria for the prudential assessment of acquisitions and increase of holdings in the financial sector

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
  • -
  • European Union, Switzerland, USA
  • -
  • 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

2857th meeting of ECOFIN

  • Norton Rose LLP
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • March 10 2008

The European Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) has published a press release concerning its 2857th meeting

The three Level 3 Committees submit their current drafts of sector and joint 3l3 work programmes

  • Norton Rose LLP
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  • European Union
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  • March 10 2008

The Committee of European Securities Regulators, the Committee of European Banking Supervisors and the Committee of European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Supervisors (Level 3 Committees) have published a joint letter to Charlie McCreevy (European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services) which sets out the 2008 work programmes for each of the individual Level 3 Committees

The Level 3 Committees welcome the new institutional arrangements on European financial supervision

  • Norton Rose LLP
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • September 24 2009

The Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS), and the two other Level 3 Committees (Committee of European Securities Regulators and Committee of European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Supervisors) have issued a joint press statement welcoming the Commission’s adoption of the new legislative proposals for establishing an institutional framework for financial supervision in the EU

The future of EU regulation

  • Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 11 2008

On April 4, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) published its International Regulatory Outlook, setting out developments in international financial services policy

European Council resolution on EU Consumer Policy Strategy (2007 - 2013)

  • Norton Rose LLP
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • July 30 2007

There has been published in the Official Journal of the European Union, the Council of the European Union’s resolution of 31 May 2007 on the Consumer Policy Strategy of the EU (2007 - 2013). In the resolution the Council of the European Union calls upon the European Commission to do a number of things including paying particular attention to consumer protection, choice and convenience in the completion of the internal market in financial services in the light of the importance of decisions on financial products for consumers, e.g. with regard to provision for old age or real estate financing

European Commission proposes stronger financial supervision in Europe

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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  • European Union
  • -
  • May 28 2009

The European Commission has adopted a Communication on Financial Supervision in Europe aimed at driving European recovery in the financial sector (the Communication