Last week, I published a new report for the Federal Trust: Brexit: Ending the City’s Dominance of European Finance?
This week, the Federal Trust published a video of Trust Director Brendan Donnelly questionning me about the report. It has gone viral - at least for me! Please do e-mail me (Graham@grahambishop.com) with your views on the subject!
In the meantime, my regular Brussels 4 Breakfast took place and the video is below:
170th Brussels 4 Breakfast
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Why you should
watch:
Business is migrating from London
- though how much is hard to say. Equally, does it matter? We are not going to
get a blanket ruling of equivalence, and London is being treated 'worse' than
other financial centres like New York. Should that stop us fine-tuning our own
regulations? Probably not, though there will be a cost. In the meantime, the EP
is still considering the TCA - though, in the end, it is inconceivable that it
will try to reopen it. Other issues include a backlash against PRIIPs
legislation, a big push on sustainability and scepticism about CBDC.
Moderator: Andrew Hilton
(Director, CSFI)
Panellists:
Graham Bishop has run his own consultancy, specialising in European financial
affairs, since leaving Citigroup, where he was the leading European bond
analyst.
Mark Simpson is a partner in the financial services and regulatory practice at
Baker McKenzie in London.
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My choice of the key topics for discussion (selected from www.grahambishop.com)
Brexit: London
leads global rankings; City Total tax contribution; My
new paper for Federal Trust; Movements of share trading, derivatives,
carbon contract; Equivalence; Location issues; IRSG – priorities for G7
General: Anti-money
laundering: ECON on EU blacklist; MEP Giegold – stop double standards, British
`spiders web’; CEPS - Time to get serious; Data Governance Act: EBF response to
Commission consultation; EP approves RRF - €672billion
Banking: McGuinness
– new momentum; Targeted consultation on crisis management and deposit insurance;
EBA technical standards on risk-takers
Capital Markets Union:
More attacks on PRIIP proposals; ELTIF
consultation shows them to be a flop so far…; Council adopts new rules on LIBOR
cessation
ESG: Sustainable
`corporate governance’: Insurance Europe, EFAMA, Better Finance, warning from
Vox about short termism! Taxonomy impact on bank lending; IFRS and new
Sustainability Standards Board; Accountancy Europe reports on `going concern’
and `fraud’: shutting stable doors…
Digital: ECB –
penalty clause on CBCD; Vox: CBDC risk being a “gigantic flop”; BIS on digital
and future of money; survey on CB’s actions; Commission asks ESAs for technical
advice
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