Banking regulation
Capital requirements for banks: trading book issues and re-securitisations (CRD III)
This legislation was one of the first major steps taken after the crisis to regulate financial transactions.
...Rules for hedge funds
Hedge funds are heavyweights in European finance, managing assets worth almost half a trillion euro, yet they are barely...
Recommendations of the EU Parliament against the economic crisis
Immediately after the collapse of the US bank Lehman Brothers in 2009, when the financial crisis started spreading across...
Financial supervision package
In response to the financial crisis, and actually before it took over European sovereign debt markets, the European...
Prohibition of short selling and credit default swaps
Two financial products exacerbated the euro crisis during its first few years.
Firstly, several speculators bought...
Fighting harmful tax competition through a common corporate tax base
Today, companies operating in different European countries can benefit from differences in legislation to reduce the taxes...
A European financial transaction tax
Levying a taxing on financial transactions is a good way of curbing some forms of financial speculation.
It also...
Safety and infrastructure of EU financial markets (EMIR)
The governments of the 20 biggest economies, the G20, decided to regulate certain complex financial products which were at...
Credit rating agencies
Credit rating agencies rate the investment risks associated with various financial products or their issuers.
...Capital requirements of banks (CRD IV)
The euro crisis has revealed many weaknesses in the banking system. Banks had unsafe business models and insufficient...