• April 23 2025
  The trouble with Danish, squared

  Navigating a bancassurance accounting loophole

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• April 19 2025
  On Wall StreetDaniel Davies

  Time to think the unthinkable about bank regulation

  Geopolitics is undermining the global system of financial regulation

  
• April 14 2025
  UK banks

  UK lenders fret over risk-transfer market after BoE warning

  Officials zeroing in on $1.1tn SRT market between banks and private capital investors

  
• March 31 2025
  Mediobanca SpA

  Mediobanca reports top shareholders to ECB in hostile bid battle

  Italian bank has raised concerns that billionaires’ actions could hand them control of three big financial institutions

  
• March 27 2025
  Cryptocurrencies

  EU watchdog to set punitive capital rules for insurers holding crypto

  Higher requirements designed to discourage sector from holding digital assets

  
• March 25 2025
  Europe Express

  Why the EU faces a tough call on new banking rules as US and UK waver Premium content

  Also in this newsletter: Should all EU households be told to prepare for war?

  
• March 24 2025
  Exchange traded funds

  GraniteShares’ European leveraged ETPs hit regulatory roadblock

  New issuance has been suspended, potentially hitting underlying mechanism

  
• March 24 2025
  EU watchdogs warn that weakening rules risks another financial crash

  Financial supervisors issue unusual warning as EU prepares to simplify regulation

  
• March 19 2025
  EU capital markets union

  EU revives capital markets union plan to unlock trillions in savings

  Financial services commissioner says Europeans need better incentives to invest rather than save

  
• March 19 2025
  Exchange traded funds

  Vanguard plugs ‘transformational’ idea for Europe ETF trading venue

  Euronext’s plan to consolidate ETF trading on to one of its seven bourses would cut costs, senior executive says

  
• March 14 2025
  High frequency trading

  High-speed trader urges regulator to clamp down on ‘unfair’ Eurex trading loophole

  Exchange says allegations ‘unfounded’ and concerns have been ‘repeatedly reviewed’

  
• February 28 2025
  Hedge funds

  Hedge funds hit back against new leverage limits

  Bodies representing big funds unleash lobbying offensive against global regulators’ plans

  
• February 21 2025
  Capital markets

  Investors call for shake-up of Europe’s ‘failed’ securitisation market

  Fund managers and insurers say long-overdue reforms could unlock hundreds of billions of euros in financing

  
• February 20 2025
  Markets InsightLorenzo Bini Smaghi

  An action plan for the ECB

  How the central bank can spur capital markets unification in the EU

  
• February 19 2025
  Clearing & Settlement

  UK to cut securities settlement time in 2027

  Britain aligns with EU and Switzerland on stock market modernisation project

  
• February 19 2025
  FT AlphavilleHuw van Steenis

  How to fix Europe’s securitisation market 

  Unclogging the pipes

  
• February 18 2025
  Investment research

  It’s getting so bad on the sell-side, even BAT pays for its own research

  There’s no smoke without IR

  
• February 10 2025
  Deutsche Bank AG

  Deutsche Bank fined €10mn by Spanish regulator over forex mis-selling

  German watchdog BaFin set to conclude its own investigation in coming weeks

  
• February 10 2025
  EU watchdog warns of resistance to Brussels’ bid to slash red tape

  Esma chair says national pushback to harmonising rules risks undermining its push to become a European SEC

  
• February 10 2025
  Exchange traded funds

  Luxembourg launches fund domicile fightback against Ireland

  The Grand Duchy has lost out to its rival on passive ETFs, but is hoping to win the war with an active ETF charm offensive

  
• February 3 2025
  Julius Baer Gruppe AG

  Swiss watchdog starts enforcement action against Julius Baer

  Finma notified bank it had opened proceedings regarding exposure to failed property group Signa

  
• January 31 2025
  EU economy

  Lagarde and Von der Leyen: Europe has got the message on change

  We can no longer squander our strengths with self-imposed handicaps. There is too much at stake

  
• January 22 2025
  Clearing & Settlement

  Brussels proposes extending EU banks’ access to UK clearing houses

  European Commission wants to prolong existing arrangements that benefit City of London

  
• January 21 2025
  Do androids dream of financial crises?

  Finreg by AI

  
• January 7 2025
  European Investment Bank

  EIB fears ‘reputational disaster’ over revised EU green reporting

  Internal memo reveals multilateral lender’s fear that new rules will put its climate credentials at risk

  

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