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The European Commission adopted a set of proposals aimed at facilitating competition law private actions in the EU, whilst ensuring that this does not undermine the public enforcement regime and in particular the operation of leniency programmes...

The European Investment Bank provides up to EUR 500 million for trade finance to support foreign trade oriented small and medium sized companies in Greece...

As part of the Responsible Business package, the Directive will reduce the administrative burden for small companies...

The existing Transparency Directive (2004/109/EC) requires issuers of securities traded on regulated markets within the EU to ensure appropriate transparency through a regular flow of information to the markets...

Directive 2013/11/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 May 2013 on alternative dispute resolution for consumer disputes and amending Regulation (EC) No 2006/2004 and Directive 2009/22/EC...

The automatic exchange of information is regarded as the best system for ensuring that national tax authorities can assess and collect the taxes they are due on income and capital that their residents have abroad...

Speech by José Manuel Durão Barroso; President of the European Commission; Press point/Brussels; 13 June 2013...

Ahead of the G8 summit, President Barroso sets out his views on the main items on the G8 agenda in the summit magazine published by the G8 Research Group of the University of Toronto...

European Parliament resolution 2013/C 168 E/08 of 15 December 2011 on the situation in Syria...

The European Commission is inviting comments from interested parties on commitments offered by Visa Europe...

Following the agreement by EU Member States on a mandate for EU-US trade and investment negotiations, José Manuel BARROSO, President of the European Commission, made the following statement...

EFAMA has published its latest Investment Fund Industry Fact Sheet, which provides investment sales and asset data for April 2013...

The consolidated list of asset freeze targets has been updated as at 10 June 2013...

This OnPoint considers the impact of the EU Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (Directive 2011/61/EU) on US-based investment advisers...

ABI has responded to the results of the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority's Solvency II (Long Term Guarentee) assessment...

The EIOPA has published its Technical Findings on the Long-Term Guarantee Assessment...

Under the European Union's Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (Directive 2011/61/EU), non-EU managers will be prohibited from marketing interests in non-EU alternative investment funds to investors in Europe after 22 July 2013 unless cooperation arrangements are in place between the competent authorities of each EU member state in which the funds are marketed and the supervisory authorities of the third country or countries in which the non-EU fund managers and their funds are established. This client alert discusses the approved cooperation agreements on behalf of all 27 EU member state securities regulators and their non-EU counterparts...

Opening speech by Gabriel Bernardino, Chairman of EIOPA, at the Public event on personal pensions in Frankfurt; 12 June 2013...

Introductory statement by the ECB in the proceedings before the Federal Constitutional Court
Jörg Asmussen
 

10th year anniversary of the establishment of the Islamic Financial Services Board
Zeti Akhtar Aziz
 

Perspectives on the Riksbank s monetary policy
Per Jansson
 

Strong regulatory measures... the prerequisites for banks to do business, stay in business, thrive in business
Rundheersing Bheenick
 

Mauritius - the financial crossroads of the world
Rundheersing Bheenick

Commission Implementing Decision 2013/280/EU of 11 June 2013 on the adequacy of the competent authorities of the United States of America pursuant to Directive 2006/43/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council...

Collective redress is a procedural mechanism which allows for reasons of procedural economy and/or efficiency of enforcement, many single claims to be bundled into a single court action...

The European Commission has set out a series of common, non-binding principles for collective redress mechanisms in the Member States so that citizens and companies can enforce the rights granted to them under EU law where these have been infringed...

ESMA has published Guidelines on remuneration policies and practices which apply to relevant staff of investment firms, credit institutions and fund management companies when providing investment services, and to national securities regulators enforcing those rules...