02/10/2012
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Press release: European financial Governance: a major step forward
31/05/2011
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The State of Europe - Tough Question for the EU
04/02/2011
 | Report of the seventh annual high-level roundtable for Friends of Europe's Trustees, business leaders, top policymakers and opinion-formers organised by Friends of Europe.Download the report |
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The European Banking Authority up and running and preparing new EU-wide stress test
03/02/2011
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European Financial Authorities : a guide to understanding ESMA
03/01/2011
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European Financial Supervision new authorities : EIOPA, ESMA, EBA
01/01/2011
The new European financial regulatory bodies set up at the start of this year have named their first chairs. Andrea Enria, head of the supervisory regulations and policies department at the Bank of Italy, is to become chair of the London-based European Banking Authority (EBA), and Steven Maijoor, director at the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets, will chair the Brussels-based European Securities and Markets Authority (Esma), the regulators announced today
Eiopa today appointed Gabriel Bernardino, director-general of the directorate for development and institutional relations at the Instituto de Seguros de Portugal, as its first chair. |
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Paris EUROPLACE - Europe 2015 : New ambitious measures for an integrated and competitive financial Europe
23/09/2010
 | In the current context of international financial and economic crisis, for which it is difficult to find solutions through convergence, the latest contribution of Paris EUROPLACE calls for the establishment of a truly European industrial policy in the area of financial markets, thereby setting the objectives and procedures for building a competitive financial industry to better finance the European economy and strengthen its international position. With these goals, Paris EUROPLACE proposes new initiatives that draw on lessons from the crisis and advance the construction of a European financial-services industry.
Download Paris EUROPLACE position paper |
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European financial supervision and regulation calendar - 2nd semester 2010
10/09/2010
| 17 proposals are currently being discussed. The European Commission favours supervision versus structural reforms. |
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Speech delivered by Jean-Pierre Jouyet Chairman of the AMF in Washington DC - A European view of financial market regulation
09/09/2010
 | DOWNLOAD. The Kalorama lectures - Washington, 9 September 2010 - |
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ECOFIN sets out the European financial supervisory framework
07/09/2010
 | The reform will establish a new basis for supervision in Europe, eliminating deficiencies that were exposed during the financial crisis. It involves the creation both of a European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB), which will provide macro-prudential oversight of the financial system, and three European authorities for the supervision of the banking, insurance and securities industries. |
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Belgian EU Presidency publishes compromise proposal on ESRB
19/07/2010
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ECOFIN : The Council sets out its position with a view to continuing negotiations with the Parliament
13/07/2010
| Read the press release. The Council set out its position with a view to continuing negotiations with the European Parliament on a package of measures which are intended to reform the European framework for supervision of the financial system, in the wake of the global financial crisis. |
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ECON extraordinary meeting in Strasbourg on economic governance
05/07/2010
 | The draft report discussed covers 8 recommendations for future legal actions by the Commission. |
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CEBS today publishes its Principles for disclosures in times of stress
27/04/2010
 | The Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) today publishes its Principles for disclosures in times of stress intended to guide financial institutions in the preparation of public disclosures made to conform with existing disclosure requirements or recommendations or on an ad hoc basis, incorporating the lessons learnt form the financial crisis. |
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ECB report on the lessons learned from the financial crisis with regard to the functioning of european financial market infrastructures
19/04/2010
 | The ECB has published a report focusing on the impact of the financial crisis on the functioning of European financial market infrastructures, including systemically important payment systems, central counterparties, and securities settlement systems. The report focuses on the challenges that European financial market infrastructures and participating financial institutions faced during the financial crisis with respect to: (1) information flows following a default; (2) default management; (3) behavioural factors that affected market liquidity conditions adversely; and (4) issues relating to OTC markets.
The report also identifies procedures and rules that might be enhanced so that financial market infrastructures, their participants and relevant public authorities are better equipped to cope with similar events in the future. |
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Conference on cross border crisis management - speeches
23/03/2010
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IMF Working Paper - Crisis Management and Resolution for a European Banking System
19/03/2010
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Spanish Presidency of the EU maintains goal of sealing agreement on hedge funds during its six-month term
17/03/2010
 | Spain's Minister of Economy and Finance, Elena Salgado, speaking at the end of the Ecofin meeting, said she is maintaining the goal of sealing a European agreement on the regulation of hedge funds before the end of the six-month term of Spain's Presidency of the EU. |
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Chairman of the IASB addresses ECOFIN meeting
17/03/2010
 | Prepared Statement of Sir David Tweedie, Chairman of the International Accounting Standards Board, to the meeting of the COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION (Economic and Financial Affairs) on 16 March 2010.Download the speech (.pdf) |
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Spanish Presidency Publishes Compromise Proposal on Omnibus Directive
17/03/2010
| The Spanish EU Presidency published a new EU Council compromise text for the proposed Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directives in respect of the powers of the European Banking Authority, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority and the European Securities and Markets Authority (Omnibus Directive).
Read the full text |
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FAQ: CESR Members provide commonly agreed answers to questions on EU CRA Regulation
08/03/2010
| CESR published today a FAQ document summing up questions received and, at the same time, providing commonly agreed answers by CESR Members to the EU Regulation on Credit Rating Agencies (CRA). |
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CESR recommends the European Institutions introduce a pan-European short selling disclosure regime
02/03/2010
 | In a report submitted today as technical advice to the European Institutions (Ref. CESR/10-088), CESR recommends the introduction of a pan-European disclosure regime for net short positions in shares. In the meantime, those CESR Members that already have powers to introduce a permanent disclosure regime, as elaborated in the report, will begin the process of implementing this regime. Those CESR Members who do not have the necessary legal powers will aim towards implementing this regime on a best efforts basis, until an EU regime is adopted. |
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Barnier - Restoring confidence in financial markets - dinner hosted by the British Bankers' Association
02/03/2010
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Barnier - Meeting with London-based hedge fund and private equity managers
01/03/2010
 | Speech by Michel Barnier on Alternative Investments regulation issues. Read the speech |
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Restoring Investor Confidence in European Capital Markets
26/02/2010
| Restoring Investor Confidence in European Capital Markets is a report of the the European Investors' Working Group, an independent non-political investor group composed of members from the retail and institutional investment industry community. This report provides a framework of recommendations for the EU regulatory and supervisory agenda from the investor's perspective. |
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IFD - Expectations concerning the new European Commission
24/02/2010
 | Position Paper of the "Initiative Finanzstandort Deutschland (IFD) |
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CEBS responds to the consultation of the EU Commission on crisis management
29/01/2010
 | On 20 January 2010, CEBS provided answer to the EU Commission's communication on an EU Framework for Cross-Border Crisis Management in the Banking Sector. The views expressed in this contribution cover the different areas contained in the communication (.pdf) issued by the Commission on 20 October 2009. |
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CEBS Chairman speaks at the ECON hearing in Brussels
28/01/2010
| Mr Casorio presented CEBS priorities for 2010, including the transition toward a European Banking Authority by 2011. |
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