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10 March 2016

Brexit 'Weekly'


Commission Call for Evidence on financial services regulation, CPD launch, Brexit, ECB, Cyprus, FinTech, taxes, 2016 budgets and more.

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The Call for Evidence
The Commission recently asked for empirical evidence and concrete feedback on the EU Financial Services Regulation; some clear trends emerged from the the submissions by the trade associations, while ECON and the ECB called for a much more comprehensive and continuous review process.  View Article
Launch of CPD courses with a lecture at Cass Business School - organised by The CISI
Graham Bishop gives the first of a series of ten online lectures as his bold plan to explain how and why the current system of financial services regulation has come into existence across the EU.  View Article
 
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City of London Corporation backs remaining in the European Union
The Council discussed a report which pointed out how access to the single market in financial services provides significant benefits for the UK financial services industry and for consumers.  View Article
City AM: Why the City of London Corporation was right to come out in favour of EU membership
Mark Boleat's view is that they, as representatives of the Square Mile and the UK’s financial and professional services sector, cannot remain a silent voice in the most important decision that the UK has faced in the last 40 years.   View Article
The Telegraph/Cummings: Why Brexit risks weakening all our financial services
TheCityUK evidence shows that industry business leaders are near unanimous that continued access to the single market is vital to UK competitiveness. So in the event of a Brexit, the UK would cease to offer this access, leading to the risk of firms considering alternative locations.   View Article
BoE: The economic and financial costs and benefits of UK's EU membership - letter by Mark Carney
Bank governor Mark Carney wrote to Andrew Tyrie, chair of the Treasury Select Committee, in response to a request for the Bank's view on David Cameron's renegotiation settlement. Carney said that "EU membership reinforces the dynamism of the UK economy."  View Article
Financial Times: European leaders and businesses line up against Brexit
David Cameron has been given a Franco-German boost to his campaign to keep Britain in the EU in the latest sign of Downing Street mobilising support from international politicians and business leaders.  View Article
POLITICO: Emmanuel Macron: France would send migrants to UK after Brexit
France would send migrants to England and take London’s exiled bankers in return should the UK vote to leave the EU, French Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron warned.  View Article
The Independent: Gibraltar Chief Minister warns Spain 'could pounce' if UK votes for Brexit
Fabien Picardo, the Chief Minister of Gibraltar, has waded into the latest row with Spain over the Rock’s sovereignty, saying Madrid could “pounce” if the UK votes to leave the European Union in June’s referendum.  View Article
POLITICO: 5 options for post-Brexit trade with Europe
If British voters decide to leave the EU, the UK will have to strike a new trade arrangement with the remaining 27 EU member countries.  View Article
The Guardian: Brexit would damage EU and UK 'politically and economically'
Italian finance minister warns of trade difficulties and domino effect on other Eurosceptic parties while German finance minister calls out vote ‘poison’.  View Article
Bruegel: Fog in the Channel - Brexit through the eyes of international trade
If Brexit occurs, the UK would need to re-negotiate more than 100 trade agreements.  View Article
Policy Network: Britain's special status in Europe
A comprehensive assessment of the UK-EU deal and its consequences by Andrew Duff, who looks in particular at the reach of the concessions obtained by David Cameron, and at the significance of the agreement for the future of the EU.  View Article
The New York Times: Britain Needs Europe
Brexit would be an act of folly, slashing Britain’s “control’ at a critical time, inflicting a “profound economic shock,” in Osborne’s words, and possibly leading to the breakup of Britain.  View Article
Paul Goldschmidt : The ECB is a convenient scapegoat!
The absence of a “political Authority” within the Eurozone, endowed with unquestioned democratic legitimacy, facing an “independent” ECB, is a significant handicap in fostering solidarity and adapting a shared monetary policy to diverse conditions prevailing in member states.  View Article
 
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Eurogroup Statement on Cyprus
The Eurogroup supports the Cypriot government's decision to exit its macroeconomic adjustment programme without a successor arrangement.   View Article
Bruegel: The United States dominates global investment banking: does it matter for Europe?
Europe’s banks are in retreat from playing a global investment banking role, and this trend is likely to continue in the future. What will be the consequences and what should be the policy response?  View Article
Financial Times: Good news — fintech could disrupt finance
Banking is currently inefficient, costly and riddled with conflicts, writes Martin Wolf.  View Article
 
  Economic
 
 
Council conclusions on the fiscal sustainability report
The European Council adopted conclusions on fiscal sustainability, identifying the challenges faced by member states as concerns their public finances.  View Article
Corporate tax avoidance: Council agrees its stance on the exchange of tax-related information on multinationals
The directive will implement, at EU level, an OECD recommendation requiring multinationals to report tax-related information, detailed country-by-country, and requiring national tax authorities to exchange that information automatically.  View Article
Council Conclusions on the code of conduct on business taxation
The Council adopted conclusions on the strengthening of a code of conduct aimed at eliminating measures that can create situations of unfair tax competition.  View Article
Insurance Europe: Exceeding OECD tax avoidance recommendations could harm EU competitiveness
Insurance Europe has commented on the EC’s anti-tax avoidance package and the upcoming common consolidated corporate tax base (CCCTB) proposal. Insurance Europe supports the objective of tackling tax avoidance and abusive tax practices, and the creation of a level playing field for all businesses.  View Article
Financial Times: European Central Bank must be much bolder
A debate about policy alternatives is needed, starting with a realisation that QE has failed.  View Article
OMFIF: Battling a common adversary
The Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank may be aligning their policies more closely than generally believed against the common adversary of deflation.  View Article
 
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Eurogroup Statement on follow-up to the Draft Budgetary Plans for 2016
The Eurogroup takes note that developments in several Member States are leading to a slightly higher deficit level in the euro area as a whole than was projected. At the Member State level, there are increased risks that some budgets do not comply with obligations under the SGP in 2016.  View Article
 

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