Banking and Finance

Public Hearing on Financial Supervision in the EU; Brussels; Steven Maijoor, Chair; European Securities and Markets Authority; 24 May 2013...

Commissioner Barnier has indicated his intention to come forward with a proposal for a Directive to improve the governance and transparency of occupational pension funds in the autumn of 2013...

Remarks by EU Commissioner Štefan Füle on behalf of HRVP Catherine Ashton on asset recovery; 22 May 2013...

Günther Oettinger, EU Commissioner for Energy said: "I welcome this major step enhancing the safety of offshore oil and gas production in the EU..."

Global emerging market securities regulators met in Panama City from 21-23 May 2013 and reinforced the need to play a more active role in global regulatory reform efforts and being involved at early stages of new international regulatory reforms to ensure emerging market considerations are reflected in the reform efforts...

The FSB hosted the fourth meeting of the FSB Regional Consultative Group for Europe under the co-chairmanship of Gaston Reinesch, Governor, Banque centrale du Luxembourg and Tom Scholar, Second Permanent Secretary, HM Treasury, United Kingdom, in Basel, Switzerland...

Despite the well documented economic challenges endured in Ireland over the past number of years, the appetite of international companies to invest in Ireland continues to grow. The majority of investment in Ireland is in three broad sectors: financial services, life sciences and technology...

Speech by the Minister for Justice, Equality and Defence, Mr. Alan Shatter TD - Second Stage (Seanad Éireann), 22 May 2013...

The Central Bank may conduct an Inquiry under Part IIIC of the Central Bank Act, 1942, as amended where it suspects on reasonable grounds that a prescribed contravention is being or has been committed...

At the end of 2012, almost one-fith of owner-occupier mortgages were in arrears. A further five per cent not in arrears were classified as restructured loans. This Economic Letter looks at the impact of financial distress on household expenditure patterns by comparing the behaviour of households in mortgage distress with similar households in the general population...

The economic outlook
Ben S Bernanke
 

Monetary policy in the crisis - confronting short-run challenges while anchoring long-run expectations
Benoît Coeuré
 

Monetary policy in the context of balance sheet adjustments
Peter Praet
 

Securing price stability as Singapore restructures
Ravi Menon

The EBA launched a consultation on draft Guidelines on capital measures for foreign currency lending (FX lending) aimed at providing guidance to national competent authorities on how to deal with the specific risk of FX lending to unhedged borrowers as part of the Supervisory Review and Evaluation Process...

The EBA launched a consultation on draft Implementing Technical Standards related to supervisory reporting of additional monitoring metrics for liquidity...

The EBA launched a consultation paper on draft Regulatory Technical Standards to define a range of methods to reflect in the own funds requirements non-delta risks for options and warrants...

An Act to provide for the holding of a national lottery on behalf of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, to establish the Office of the Regulator of the National Lottery and to define the functions of the Regulator, to repeal the National Lottery Act, 1986, to amend sections 27 and 28 of the Gaming and Lotteries Act, 1956 and to provide for connected matters...

The global financial crisis led to discussion of corrective bank taxes to promote financial stability. This paper interprets the widening of the FDIC assessment base from deposits to assets less equity for US-chartered banks in April 2011 as such a corrective or Pigovian tax...

The Macro-Financial Review offers an overview of the current state of the macro-financial environment and an assessment of key risks to financial stability in Ireland. Its aims are twofold to help the public, financial-market participants and international and national authorities better evaluate financial risks; and to promote informed dialogue on the financial system’s strengths and weaknesses and efforts to strengthen its resilience...

The Central Bank of Ireland has published the long awaited draft AIF Rulebook together with draft application forms and a Questions and Answers document...

The EBA launched a consultation on draft Implementing Technical Standards on Passport Notifications aimed at specifying the standard forms, templates and procedures underlying the submission of passport notifications...

The EBA launched a consultation paper on draft Regulatory Technical Standards on criteria to identify categories of staff whose professional activities have a material impact on an institution’s risk profile. These material risk takers will be subject to specific provisions of the Capital Requirements Directive related, in particular, to the payment of variable remuneration...

These Regulations give further effect to the Directive No. 93/13/EEC on unfair terms in consumer contracts...

Prospects for a stronger recovery
Sarah Bloom Raskin
 

"Built to last" - the new euro area framework
Yves Mersch
 

Global finance in transition
Erdem Başçi
 

Independence, inflation targeting and the importance of not being dead certain
Barbro Wickman-Parak
 

Perspectives on banking in India
Deepak Mohanty
 

Singapore - pursuing broader and deeper economic integration with major economies
Lim Hng Kiang

Release 14.0 will be implemented on Monday, 28th October 2013...