Regulation

An agreement between the European Parliament and the Council of the EU on a Regulation of financial benchmarks was found in the night of November 24 to 25, 2015. Unfortunately, this agreement does not respond to the criticism that EDHEC Risk Institute had (...)

In an open letter addressed to the Chair of the European Parliament ECON committee, Roberto Gualtieri on February 20, 2015, EDHEC-Risk Institute has expressed its concern about the new draft text which is being proposed for a vote by the committee on March 9, which plans to (...)

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has conducted a peer review on how national regulators (national competent authorities or NCAs) supervise and enforce the MiFID provisions relating to investment firms’ obligation to provide best execution, or obtain the (...)

Although "only" 25 banks failed the ECB test, the central bank’s health check shows that others have reasons to be concerned. SNL data sheds light on some of the implications of the exercise, not only for the failed banks, but also the "near (...)

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 (...)