Friends 'Weekly' Newsletter
01 October 2015
EBA, CMU, MiFID II, MAR, CSDR, EIOPA, Solvency II, Brexit, AFME, VAT and more.
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Articles from 24 September 2015 - 01 October 2015 |
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EBA recommends to the EU Commission retention of maturity ladder in the ITS on additional liquidity monitoring metrics
The EBA issued an Opinion to the European Commission dissenting to its proposed amendment to remove the maturity ladder from the EBA final draft ITS on additional liquidity monitoring metrics. |
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European Commission: Capital Markets Union - an Action Plan to boost business funding and investment financing
The European Commission launched the Capital Markets Union Action Plan to help build a true single market for capital across the 28 EU Member States. |
ESMA readies MiFID II, MAR, and CSDR
ESMA published its final technical standards on some of the most important pieces of post-crisis financial regulation: the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, the Market Abuse Regulation and the Central Securities Depositaries Regulation. |
ICMA: Growth in the European repo market is stalled
According to ICMA, the repo market in Europe is not growing in line with underlying conditions. |
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Insurance |
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EIOPA advises to set up a new asset class for high-quality infrastructure investments under Solvency II
EIOPA has suggested a more granular approach by advising to create a separate asset class, under Solvency II standard formula for investments in infrastructure projects, which seeks to capture high quality infrastructure, whilst recognising the complex and heterogeneous nature of such investments. |
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Political |
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CEPS: Cameron’s ‘renegotiations’ (or Russian roulette) with the EU - An interim assessment
The British PM Cameron has put his campaign into high gear to get a ‘new settlement’ with the EU and invested much personal diplomacy to try to advance his objective under four headings: competitiveness, sovereignty, social security and economic governance. |
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Financial |
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European Commission: Investment Plan for Europe goes global - China announces its contribution to #investEU
China announced its intention to contribute to the Investment Plan - as well as closer cooperation with the EU on investment issues in general - at the High Level Economic and Trade Dialogue. |
AFME’s new model clause creates harmonisation for implementing contractual recognition of bail-in
AFME published its model clause for contractual recognition of bail-in, which provides model wording designed to assist banks in complying with obligations under Article 55 of the European Union’s Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive (BRRD). |
VoxEU: Regulatory arbitrage in action: Evidence from cross-border lending
Authors show new evidence on avoiding macroprudential policies by borrowing from abroad. Domestic non-banks borrow more from abroad after an increase in capital requirements, but not after an increase in lending standards. |
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Economic |
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Modernising VAT for cross-border e-commerce: Commission launches public consultation
The European Commission has launched a public consultation to help identify ways to simplify the Value-Added Tax payments on cross-border e-commerce transactions in the EU. |
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