Follow Us

Follow us on Twitter  Follow us on LinkedIn

Article List:

 

This section focuses on the political attitudes as well as international financial, economic and political news that shape the creation of a single financial market, rather than the technical details of proposals.








Welcome to the GrahamBishop Archive.

If you would like access to more current information please subscribe to our friends membership.

Policy impacting Finance - 2022289 articles out of 289.

Policy impacting Finance - 2021234 articles out of 234.

Policy impacting Finance - 2020248 articles out of 248.

Policy impacting Finance - 201957 articles out of 57.

Policy impacting Finance - 201880 articles out of 80.

Policy impacting Finance - 2017126 articles out of 126.

Policy impacting Finance - 201697 articles out of 97.

Policy impacting Finance - 201593 articles out of 93.

Policy impacting Finance - 201489 articles out of 89.

Policy impacting Finance - 2013161 articles out of 161.

Policy impacting Finance - 2012129 articles out of 129.

2011 Policy impacting Finance
2011-12-22 Oxera reviews the European Commission’s economic impact assessment of the proposed financial transaction tax
2011-12-21 FTT might raise "no additional money at all", claims UK Chancellor
2011-12-20 ECON Committee: Credit rating agencies - MEPs want less reliance on "big three"
2011-12-19 IMA expresses reservations about Draft Financial Services Bill Report
2011-12-12 FN: European Supervisory Authorities call for funding shake-up
2011-12-06 EIOPA calls for paradigm shift in consumer protection
2011-12-02 IMF: Emerging markets seen as part of solution to global problems
2011-12-01 EFAMA's comments on the Commission's proposal for a Council Directive on a common system of financial transaction tax
2011-12-01 Final legislative texts of the Economic Governance Package
2011-11-27 FT: EU Commissioner for taxation has London in his sights
2011-11-23 Commission presents further economic governance proposals
2011-11-23 ECON Committee: Exchange of views with taxation Commissioner Šemeta on the FTT
2011-11-23 IMF: Financial regulators and central banks share financial stability role
2011-11-21 ICFR: Comparison of FSB and FSA proposals for the resolution of financial institutions
2011-11-16 Commission published 2012 work programme: Delivering European renewal
2011-11-16 Plenary session: EP votes to ban credit default swaps
2011-11-15 MEP Markus Ferber: Tough EU standards on short selling
2011-11-15 FT: US support for accounting harmonisation
2011-11-09 IMA: FTT is a tax on UK savers
2011-11-08 Commissioner Šemeta: There is huge momentum behind the idea of a financial transactions tax (FTT) that cannot be ignored
2011-11-08 Economic governance: Council adopts legal texts
2011-11-05 Communiqué G20: Leaders' Summit in Cannes on 3-4 November 2011
2011-11-04 Commissioner Barnier: There is no evidence that EU rules undermine the City's competitiveness
2011-11-04 FSB issued International Standard for Crisis Resolution Regimes
2011-11-04 FSB announced policy measures to address SIFIs and named initial group of global SIFIs
2011-11-02 The Geneva Association writes an open letter to the finance ministers and central bank governors of the G20
2011-11-02 Risk.net: ABI plans Solvency II impact study to highlight undesirable outcomes
2011-11-02 SIFMA opposes latest financial transaction tax legislation
2011-11-01 Change of Presidency of the European Central Bank
2011-10-30 FT: Schäuble calls for EU lead on Tobin tax
2011-10-27 FSB published recommendations on Shadow Banking
2011-10-27 Šemeta: Tax systems can be designed in a competitive way without engaging in harmful tax competition.
2011-10-26 Olin L Wethington: Strengthening the stabilisers
2011-10-26 Bloomberg: Europe struggles for crisis remedy
2011-10-26 European Parliament on the eurozone deal: relief but no time for celebration
2011-10-26 FSB published consultation on residential mortgage underwriting practices
2011-10-26 European Council: 26 October agreement on banking recapitalisation
2011-10-25 EC: More responsible businesses can foster more growth in Europe
2011-10-25 Insurers write to G20 on SIFIs
2011-10-25 Commission published review of the Transparency Directive
2011-10-24 Major financial services trade associations urge UK to continue to take a strong stance against FTT
2011-10-24 CEA, EBF and EFAMA voice VAT concerns
2011-10-20 FSA Lord Turner: We have a major opportunity to put in place a better system of financial regulation
2011-10-20 BNP urges EFSF to issue credit default swaps
2011-10-20 European Voice: The EU, not the G20, must settle eurozone crisis
2011-10-18 ECON Committee: Annual report on EU competition policy
2011-10-18 G20 finance ministers agree new principles to boost financial consumer protection
2011-10-18 ECON Committee: Public hearing on economic governance and crisis management in the EU
2011-10-17 Jürgen Stark: Hearing at the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs of the European Parliament
2011-10-14 ECON Committee: First exchange of views on the Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base (CCCTB)
2011-10-11 FEE leads the debate on the future of tax policy
2011-10-10 ECON Committee published an assessment of the cumulative impact of various regulatory initiatives on the European banking sector
2011-10-10 Assessment of the macro-economic impact - report issued by the Basel Committee and the Financial Stability Board
2011-10-10 ECON Committee: Germany's Jörg Asmussen takes first steps towards joining ECB Executive Board
2011-10-07 Ian Williams: MiFID Review and Retail Products
2011-10-07 EFR letter ahead of G20 Finance Ministers' meeting on 14/15 October 2011
2011-10-07 Letter from Van Rompuy and Barroso on the key issues of the G20 summit
2011-10-06 ECON Committee: Semeta stressed that FTT will change trading practices
2011-10-06 No treaty taboos for German Chancellor Angela Merkel facing euro crisis
2011-10-05 BIS: Macro-prudential policy – strengthening the foundations, enhancing the toolkit and taking action
2011-10-04 ECON Committee: Last monetary dialogue with the ECB under the Presidency of Jean-Claude Trichet
2011-10-04 Liberals and Democrats maintain pressure for action plan on economic governance
2011-10-04 EU economic governance package - a milestone reached
2011-09-30 Persaud: EU's financial transaction tax is feasible, and if set right, desirable
2011-09-28 EBF: European banks call for solutions least detrimental to the European economy
2011-09-28 President Barroso: EU faces its greatest challenge
2011-09-28 Commissioner Šemeta: The European Union should take the lead on the FTT project for the benefit of all
2011-09-28 Commission published state of play on the EU economic governance "six pack"
2011-09-28 Rehn: The economic governance package will pave the way for creating a real economic union
2011-09-28 S&D MEPs: Austerity alone will not resolve the eurozone crisis
2011-09-28 EPP Group: The adoption of the economic governance is a major success
2011-09-28 Financial transaction tax: Making the financial sector pay its fair share
2011-09-28 Bruegel: Transatlantic relations and globalisation in time of crisis?
2011-09-28 BBC: European Commission financial tax opposed by UK
2011-09-28 Sharon Bowles MEP: New economic governance rules give EU hope for future stability
2011-09-28 President of the European Council, Herman Van Rompuy, welcomes today's agreement on the economic legislative package
2011-09-28 Association of German Banks warns against financial transactions tax
2011-09-28 ALDE Verhofstadt: Six-pack on economic governance is victory for financial stability and basis for growth
2011-09-28 ALDE Verhofstadt: Barroso must now convince Council of need for more Europe
2011-09-28 IMA: Proposed financial transactions tax will penalise savers
2011-09-28 TheCityUK comments on European Commission proposals for a financial transactions tax
2011-09-26 ECON Committee - MEP Wortmann-Kool: Economic governance pillar of EU's competitiveness
2011-09-25 Global Financial Centres Index: The eurozone languishes and the Nordic Centres shine through
2011-09-20 ECON Committee published FAQ on the economic governance "six pack"
2011-09-20 Barroso: The economic governance package is a robust answer to what was a serious shortcoming in the design of the euro
2011-09-16 CEPR published 13th CEPR/ICMB Geneva Report on the World Economy: ‘Public Debts: Nuts, Bolts and Worries’
2011-09-16 Presidency Statement: Communication on the agreement on the Economic Governance Package for the EU
2011-09-15 Jean-Claude Trichet: Intervention at the Eurofi Financial Forum 2011
2011-09-15 European Monetary Policy under Jean-Claude Trichet
2011-09-15 EP and Council strike a deal on economic governance package
2011-09-14 Plenary session: MEPs call for unified EU response to debt crisis
2011-09-14 Code Group acceptance of Jersey's zero-ten tax regime
2011-09-09 Commissioner Šemeta met French President Sarkozy to discuss the FTT
2011-09-09 Franco-German letter on the FTT sent to Commissioners Barnier and Šemeta
2011-09-06 WSBI-ESBG response to the FSB consultation towards stakeholders on deposit insurance systems
2011-09-02 Joint trade associations' consultative document on effective resolution of SIFIs
2011-09-02 Joint Comments on the FSB's consultative document on Effective Resolution of SIFIs
2011-09-01 Philippe Maystadt: The myths that Europe's policymakers must forget
2011-08-31 CEA responds to FSB on resolution of SIFIs
2011-08-31 CII Thinkpiece 62: 'The Role of Professionalism in Securing Consumer Trust and Confidence'
2011-08-31 Eurofinas comments on the G20 high level standards on financial consumer protection
2011-08-18 Adam Smith Institute published a paper on the Tobin tax: reason or treason?
2011-08-18 TheCityUK: Comment on European financial transaction tax
2011-08-17 AFME: Financial transaction tax would hamper economic growth
2011-08-08 IMF published a paper on the administrative feasibility of transaction tax
2011-07-31 FT: LSE chief warns of merger's threat to UK voice
2011-07-30 Opinion of the European Data Protection Supervisor on the proposal on credit agreements relating to residential property
2011-07-28 Ian Williams: PRIPS - Beyond the 'retailisation' of structured investment products
2011-07-27 SEC sets up large trader reporting system
2011-07-27 City of London Research: The value of Europe’s international financial centres to the EU economy
2011-07-25 IMF continues push towards enhanced global financial safety net
2011-07-21 Ben Bernanke: The Dodd-Frank Act
2011-07-19 FSB launched consultation on measures to address systemically important financial institutions
2011-07-19 FT: Little to celebrate on Dodd-Frank’s birthday
2011-07-18 FSB meeting: Vulnerabilities in the financial system
2011-07-18 ECON Committee draft report on responsible lending and borrowing
2011-07-15 FSB published report on 'The Financial Crisis and Information Gaps'
2011-07-05 ECB opinion on the proposal on credit agreements relating to residential property
2011-07-04 Plenary debate on short selling and CDS
2011-07-01 FSB launched peer review on deposit on insurance systems and invites feedback from stakeholders
2011-06-30 New EU lobby group created to counterbalance the finance sector
2011-06-28 IMF Executive Board selects Christine Lagarde as Managing Director
2011-06-24 European Council conclusions
2011-06-23 Statement by Christine Lagarde to the IMF Executive Board
2011-06-22 Barroso promised that the Commission will come up with a formal legislative proposal on a financial tax
2011-06-17 Council published 18 month programme prepared by the future Polish, Danish and Cypriot Presidencies
2011-06-17 Persaud: The narrative outside of Europe about Europe's fiscal crisis is wrong
2011-06-15 ECB published Financial Stability Review June 2011

2011-06-15 ECON committee: Mario Draghi recommended as candidate for next ECB president
2011-06-13 US House Judiciary Committee hearing on Competition and Consolidation in Financial Markets: The NYSE-Deutsche Börse Merger
2011-06-13 FN: UK MPs write a letter to Commissioner Barnier over European reforms
2011-06-08 ECON committee: Beefing up credit rating agency rules
2011-06-06 IMF: UK must go for top quality financial supervision
2011-06-06 FT: Geithner urged united front on regulation
2011-06-06 BIS Quarterly Review: Inflation and growth perceptions drove recent financial market developments
2011-06-06 Insurers called on G20 to separate banking and insurance systemic risk identification
2011-06-03 ECB González-Páramo: What have we learned about financial markets and regulations?
2011-06-03 FED Daniel K Tarullo: Regulating systemically important financial firms
2011-06-01 ECON committee: Draft report on the appointment of the President of the European Central Bank
2011-05-31 Polish Presidency published priorities for EU Presidency
2011-05-24 ECON committee: Exchange of views with Commissioner Barnier
2011-05-23 Committee on the Global Financial System: Interactions of sovereign debt management with monetary conditions and financial stability
2011-05-23 Interview with ECON Chairwoman on the Economic Governance package
2011-05-19 Bank of England and FSA published joint paper: 'Prudential Regulation Authority - The future approach to banking supervision'
2011-05-18 FSB launched second peer review on compensation practices
2011-05-18 ABBL position paper discusses EU initiative on additional tax for financial sector
2011-05-11 European Supervision of CRAs: MEP Jean-Paul Gauzès denounced delays in legislation's implementation
2011-05-11 CFTC's Chilton: Markets are safer since Flash Crash
2011-05-09 ACCA roundtable: 'Reflections on the Mortgage Directive: Specialised Credit Markets – Specialised Regulation'
2011-05-05 DG MARKT's Jonathan Faull and Nadia Calviño visited the US
2011-05-05 DG MARKT's new organigram
2011-05-02 ECB: Challenges to financial integration in 2010
2011-05-02 ECON committee: ECB presents 2010 report on financial integration to MEPs
2011-04-26 ABI: Product intervention - FSA does not need further regulatory powers
2011-04-25 FDIC published report on Lehman failure under Dodd-Frank
2011-04-20 Basic information on Responsible lending and borrowing – Mortgage credit
2011-04-19 ALFI published response to the Commission consultation on financial sector taxation
2011-04-15 G20 Communiqué: Commodity prices face increasing pressures
2011-04-13 ECON committee: At least €100,000 compensation for defrauded private investors
2011-04-12 FSB published a background note on shadow banking
2011-04-12 CRIS committee: US financial crisis was "avoidable", US Inquiry Commission tells MEPs
2011-04-12 JURI Committee: MEPs want swift EU measures for freezing and disclosure of debtors' assets
2011-04-10 The Single Market Act
2011-04-07 IMF: Reform and strengthen housing finance
2011-04-07 SEC and CFTC published joint study on the feasibility of mandating algorithmic descriptions for derivatives
2011-04-06 EU/US dialogue on the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act
2011-04-06 Ben Bernanke: Clearinghouses, financial stability and financial reform
2011-04-05 FSB meeting in Rome: Assessment of vulnerabilities affecting the financial system
2011-04-04 Financial Stability Board published information on national implementation of G20 recommendations
2011-04-01 Belgium introduces a new "twin peaks" supervisory architecture
2011-03-31 EC proposal on mortgages: Better protection for European consumers
2011-03-28 Commissioner Šemeta: "Setting out the tax agenda for a fairer contribution of the financial sector”
2011-03-23 Parliament approved Treaty change to allow stability mechanism
2011-03-23 Lords Committee sceptical on implementation of EU Economic Governance Proposals
2011-03-23 ECON committee: First discussion of amendments on the economic governance package
2011-03-22 ECON committee: Green light for ESAs executive directors
2011-03-22 ECON committee: MEPs debate economic governance with ECB President Trichet
2011-03-20 Global Financial Centres Index: London outshines Swiss cities for competitiveness
2011-03-20 FSB published peer review of risk disclosure practices in respect of exposures to structured credit products
2011-03-17 Commission proposes reform of European Anti-Fraud Office
2011-03-16 ACCA comments on the CCCTB: The route to go to enhance cross-border trade and reduce compliance costs
2011-03-16 ECR: Common EU tax base proposal completely misses the point
2011-03-16 ECON committee: MEPs give backing to appointment of Peter Praet to ECB Board
2011-03-16 ECON committee: Toughening up credit rating agency rules
2011-03-16 Commissioner Šemeta: The Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base is about eliminating huge administrative burdens
2011-03-16 European Commission proposed a common system for calculating the tax base of businesses operating in the EU
2011-03-15 Federal Trust Briefing: UK's "European Union Bill"
2011-03-14 IMF working paper on Crisis Management and Resolution: Early lessons from the Financial Crisis
2011-03-14 Eurozone summit: A 'Pact for the Euro' for stronger economic policy coordination for competitiveness and convergence
2011-03-11 Weber speaks on the implications of Financial Regulation
2011-03-09 Commissioner Šemeta: A financial transactions tax at global level is needed
2011-03-08 Plenary session: Own initiative report on innovative financing approved
2011-03-02 Germany and Austria push financial transaction tax
2011-03-02 ECB opinion on the economic governance package
2011-02-25 FN: Financial Stability Board warns on clearing access
2011-02-25 European Commission issued consultation on Financial Sector Taxation
2011-02-24 Graham Mather: Taxation of the Financial Sector
2011-02-23 ALFI response to the European Commission consultation paper on legislative steps for the PRIPs initiative
2011-02-22 FSB reports to G20 on progress in implementing global financial reforms
2011-02-21 G20 Communiqué: Agreement on indicators that will allow detecting imbalances
2011-02-21 FSB Statement: Financial Stability Board reports to G20 on progress in implementing global financial reforms
2011-02-16 ECON committee: Consideration of amendments on the own initiative report on Credit Rating Agencies
2011-02-15 Council recommends the nomination of Peter Praet to the executive board of the ECB
2011-02-14 EFAMA presses European Commission to show greater ambition for Retail Investment Products Regulation
2011-02-07 Former Commission official David Wright: "Repairing the financial system and the consequences of failure"
2011-02-07 Hungary to oppose tax harmonisation
2011-02-04 European Council conclusions: Nothing concrete - hard decisions postponed to March
2011-02-04 MEPs push forward plans for financial transaction tax
2011-02-04 CEA responded to EC PRIPs consultation
2011-02-02 ECB publication: Central bank statistics: what did the financial crisis change?
2011-02-02 World Economic Forum: Merkel warned against complacency about risks of future financial crisis
2011-02-02 ECON committee: MEPs insist on guarantees for financial supervisory watchdogs
2011-01-31 New Core Principles for effective deposit insurance systems issued
2011-01-27 The EC published a call for expression of interest to appoint members of the joint Board of Appeal
2011-01-27 SEC proposes net worth standard for accredited investors under Dodd-Frank Act
2011-01-27 SEC proposes private fund systemic risk reporting rule
2011-01-26 ISDA’s comment letter on the FSOC’s Proposed Rulemaking: Authority to Designate Financial Market Utilities as Systemically Important
2011-01-26 UK Government announced package of measures to enhance consumer protection in the mortgage market
2011-01-25 The Financial Stability Oversight Council Chairman’s study on risk retention
2011-01-25 McDonald PRIPS and IMD consultation responses: potential pitfalls, dangers and complexities abound
2011-01-25 Hungarian Presidency’s hearing in European Parliament
2011-01-25 IIF: G20 leadership needed on macroeconomic and key financial regulatory issues
2011-01-21 SEC approves new rules regulating asset-backed securities
2011-01-21 European Systemic Risk Board holds inaugural meeting
2011-01-20 ECON chairwoman Sharon Bowles: FX underpins how the world trades
2011-01-18 The Hungarian Presidency of the EU published its six-month programme
2011-01-18 SEC proposes rule for the timely acknowledegment and verification of security-based swap transactions
2011-01-10 ECON Committee: Commissioner Šemeta presents key options for innovative financing in the EU
2011-01-10 SIFMA released a study on the Volcker rule: Considerations for implementation of proprietary trading regulations
2011-01-10 FT: Brussels to target bondholders on bail-outs
2011-01-10 Barnier: A turning point for the European financial sector
2011-01-10 European Commission consults on technical details of a possible European crisis management framework
2011-01-03 ECB: Estonia joins the Euro Area

Prior Years Reports


Policy impacting Finance - 2010376 articles out of 376.

Policy impacting Finance - 2009372 articles out of 372.

Policy impacting Finance - 2008600 articles out of 600.

Policy impacting Finance - 2007245 articles out of 245.

Policy impacting Finance - 2006105 articles out of 105.

Policy impacting Finance - 200571 articles out of 71.

Policy impacting Finance - 200435 articles out of 35.