European regulatory reform
A new CFA Institute report reviews the current EU corporate governance policy landscape and the reforms that have been introduced over the past 10 years and offers recommendations for improvement.
The new regulation, once agreed on, will aim at harmonizing the rules across Europe and will be directly applicable in all 28 EU Member States.
Cybersecurity is now a concern for everyone working in finance, from investment managers to regulators, not just CIOs. In the EU, cybersecurity is gaining more and more attention from policymakers.
The uneven application of the prospectus regime across Member States has posed several challenges not only to issuers, but also to investors and national regulators alike.
It is time to accelerate cultural change to serve the interests of investors and society.
CFA Institute supports making information on European SMEs more accessible to cross-border investors.
Global regulators are grappling with a problem of unexpected size — not the number of technical standards they need to transcribe but something more palpable: the lack of manpower.
“Jobs and growth” are the European Parliament’s focus now, says Sharon Bowles, nonexecutive director of the London Stock Exchange and former chairwoman of the EP’s Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee, in this edition of Policy Perspectives.
Analysis on the next European Commission president, the makeup of parlimentary committees, and how these developments will affect the implementation of MiFID.
Josina Kamerling, head of regulatory outreach at CFA Institute for the Europe, Middle East, and Africa region, covers the May European Parliament election results, including commentary on the related protest movement (in response to the recent financial, social, and economic crisis) and resulting rise of Euroscepticism.
The banking union aims to facilitate a more integrated banking sector within the EU and to mitigate the potential for systemic risks from banks acting across borders yet supervised (until now) at a national level.