The four Framework Directives ofthe Lamfalussy Process constituted afurther step towards guaranteeing an efficient and dynamic functioning of the EU's securities market. Since then, a number of implementing directives and regulations have been passed andfurther changes have already been...

EU policymakers are currently implementing the capital markets union (CMU) agenda—a collection of individual steps that, taken together, should strengthen cross-border market integration in EU capital markets. However, the imminent departure of the United Kingdom from the EU reshuffles the...

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...

This paper examines the supervision of Central Clearing Counterparties (CCPs) in Europe, since they function as an important pillar of the Capital Markets Union. Our research indicates that the current national-based supervision of CCPs leads to regulatory arbitrage and exposes the EU to huge...

The free movement of capital – as it is traditionally seen as the fourth freedom, after goods, workers and persons, services and establishment – is a long-standing objective of the European Union, a fundamental freedom at the heart of the single market. The paper summarizes the development...