Showing 1 - 10 of 5,070
On 23rd February 2017, SUERF and EY organized a conference on "Brexit and the Implications for Financial Services" at EY's offices, Churchill Place, Canary Wharf, London. While the outcome of the Brexit negotiations remains highly uncertain, the conference discussed the burning questions for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011712197
The purpose of this paper, structured in three Sections, is twofold: (a) The first is to analyse the conditions under which a group of financial firms is considered to be a ‘financial conglomerate' in accordance with the (complex) definition of this term in Article 2 (point (14)) of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012944116
analyses the impact of these interest rate caps on microfinance institutions. Introducing the taxonomy of soft, mezzo and hard … instrument to distinguish between the different service levels and industry environments in which microfinance institutions … of the informal credit sector, and furthering the microfinance institution's mission drift. In Pt. V. we also show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012922161
The aim of this paper is to present and briefly analyse the provisions of the recent (24 May 2018) European Commission's proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and the Council, whose objective is to lay down a general framework for sovereign bond-backed securities (SBBSs). It is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012911693
The present article contains a brief but comprehensive overview of the development of the Capital Markets Union (CMU) project in the EU to further deepen EU capital markets’ integration. After the Introduction, it first discusses the Commission’s 2015 CMU Action Plan and its follow-up,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013297827
The aim of the present University notes is to provide a brief but comprehensive overview of the European Commission’s proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council “on Markets in Crypto-Assets (…)” (MiCAR), which was submitted on 24 September 2020. It is not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013228416
This is a chapter for a forthcoming volume Oxford Handbook of Financial Regulation (Oxford University Press 2014) (eds. Eilís Ferran, Niamh Moloney, and Jennifer Payne). It provides an overview of EU financial regulation from the first banking directive up until its most recent developments in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010372581
SUERF – The European Money and Finance Forum, the Deutsche Bundesbank and the Institute for Monetary and Financial Stability (IMFS) took the opportunity of the first anniversary of this new institution to organise a joint conference in Berlin on 8-9 November 2011. The purpose of this event was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011711529
Section 913 of the Dodd-Frank Act requires the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to conduct a study regarding gaps or deficiencies in the regulation of broker-dealers and investment advisers. These firms often perform similar functions but are regulated differently under an antiquated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012949826
Why, since the mid-1980s, have so many European governments decided fiscally to support the development of private retirement savings accounts? Whereas analysts of pension reform in affluent democracies have traditionally considered the development of private pensions as a secondary outcome of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013030160