Regulation

Professor John Thanassoulis believes the EU regulations capping individual bank bonuses will be damaging to financial stability. Instead Professor Thanassoulis argues the bonus cap should be applied at the aggregate bank level and that this small change will make banks (...)

The European Central Bank (ECB) has today published the results of a thorough year-long examination of the resilience and positions of the 130 largest banks in the euro area as of 31 December 2013. The comprehensive assessment—which consisted of the asset quality review (AQR) (...)

SNL Financial’s latest report finds that banks in the Eurozone periphery, particularly Italy, will be severely stretched.

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published its final Guidelines on the enforcement of financial information published by listed entities in the European Union (EU). The aim of the guidelines is to strengthen and promote greater supervisory convergence (...)

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has approved the registration of EuroRating Sp. z o.o., based in Poland, as a credit rating agency (CRA) under Article 16 of the CRA Regulation. The registration takes effect from 7 May (...)